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Every act of the police is not in exercise of sovereign power. In which of the following case the plea…

In State of Punjab v. Lal Chand Sabharwal, the High Court rejected sovereign immunity for negligent police transport of a detained agitator to a place selected to disperse…

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Every act of the police is not in exercise of sovereign power. In which of the following case the plea of the government that the act was done in exercise of sovereign power was not accepted ?

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In State of Punjab v. Lal Chand Sabharwal, the High Court rejected sovereign immunity for negligent police transport of a detained agitator to a place selected to disperse the group. The driver dozed off and the van struck a tree; the State was liable because that transport was not an exercise of sovereign power.

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