Everything said in judgment doesn’t constitutes precedent

Career Institute Educational Society Vs Om Shree Thakurji Educational Society (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court held that it is not everything said by a Judge when giving judgment that constitutes a precedent. The only thing in a Judge’s decision binding as a legal precedent is the principle upon which the case is decided Conclusion- To test whether a particular proposition of law is to be treated as the ratio decidendi of the case, the proposition is to be inversed, i.e. to remove from the text of the judgment as if it did not exist. If the conclusion of the case would still have b...