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Epistolary Jurisdiction
Scope
The practice of treating a letter or postcard to the court as a writ petition, and the safeguards later placed around it.
Authorities to start from
- S.P. Gupta v. Union of India, 1981 Supp SCC 87
- Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India, (1984) 3 SCC 161
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