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title: "Which writ is issued by a High Court or the Supreme Court to compel an authority to perform a function that it was not performing ?"  
description: "Which writ is issued by a High Court or the Supreme Court to compel an authority to perform a function that it was not performing ?"  
author: "Reyansh Singh"  
published: 2018-03-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39049/which-writ-is-issued-by-a-high-court-or-the-supreme-court-to-compel-an-authority-to-perform-a-function-that-it-was-not-performing  
category: "indian polity and constitution"  
tags: ["indian polity and constitution"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Which writ is issued by a High Court or the Supreme Court to compel an authority to perform a function that it was not performing ?

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