Judicial authority, by using the expression 'judicial authority' it was clearly indicated that the appell-ate authority must be one such pre-existing authority which was exercising judicial power of the State. If any other authority as persona designat was to be constituted there was no purpose in qualifying the word 'authority' by the specific adjective 'judicial', Thakur Das v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1978 SC 1 (4): (1978) 1 SCC 27: (1978) 1 SCR 732.
Is defined as it is not necessary that it should be a court in the sense in which this court is a court; it is enough if it is exercising, after hearing evidence, judicial functions in the sense that it has to decide on evidence between a proposal and an opposition and it is not necessary to be strictly a court, R. v. London County Council, (1931) 2 KB 215: 100 LJKB 760: 144 LT 464 (CA)