Constitution of India, 1949
226.Power of High Courts to issue certain
writs.-
(1) Notwithstanding anything in Article 32
every High Court shall have powers, throughout the territories in relation to
which it exercise jurisdiction, to issue to any person or authority, including
in appropriate cases, any Government, within those territories directions,
orders or writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus,
prohibitions, quo warranto and certiorari, or any of them, for the enforcement
of any of the rights conferred by Part III and for any other purpose.
(2) The power conferred by clause (1) to issue
directions, orders or writs to any Government, authority or person may also be
exercised by any High Court exercising jurisdiction in relation to the
territories within which the cause of action , wholly or in part, arises for
the exercise of such power, notwithstanding that the seat of such Government or
authority or the residence of such person is not within those territories.
(3) Where any party against whom an interim
order, whether by way of injunction or stay or in any other manner, is made on,
or in any proceedings relating to, a petition under clause (1), without-
(a) furnishing to such
party copies of such petition and all documents in support of the plea for such
interim order; and
(b) giving such party
an opportunity of being heard, makes an application to the High Court for the
vacation of such order and furnishes a copy of such application to the party in
whose favor such order has been made or the counsel of such party, the High
Court shall dispose of the application within a period of two weeks from the
date on which it is received or from the date on which the copy of such
application is so furnished, whichever is later, or where the High Court is
closed on the last day of that period, before the expiry of the next day
afterwards on which the High Court is open; and if the application is not so
disposed of, the interim order shall, on the expiry of that period, or , as the
case may be, the expiry of the aid next day, stand vacated.
(4) The power conferred on a High Court by this
article shall not be in derogation of the power conferred on the Supreme court
by clause (2) of Article 32.