Tagged “subordinate-legislation”

Cellular Operators Association of India v. TRAI: call drops, arbitrariness and proportionality

On 11 May 2016, a two-judge bench struck down TRAI's call-drop compensation regulation as ultra vires and manifestly arbitrary under Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) — engaging both Wednesbury manifest-arbitrariness and the doctrine of proportionality to review a regulator's subordinate legislation.