While the Central Government is vested with wide powers in matters of deportation, such powers must be exercised fairly and without any hint of arbitrariness, the bench emphasised.
Pertinently, the bench also issued notice to Tejpal on an appeal filed by the State seeking enhancement of punishment from 10 years to life imprisonment.
Tejpal should have either surrendered and given a certificate verifying this, or he should have sought an exemption from having to do so, submitted SG Mehta today.
The decision follows the Supreme Court's July 7 direction to establish the Academy on the lines of the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, for compulsory training of lawyers.