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If a government office rejects your application, delays your certificate, or fines you, can it decide as it wants? It feels final. But the office is using public power-and public power has boundaries. Administrative law means rules controlling how authorities use that power. A decision must be lawful, based on relevant reasons, and reasonable. When the situation requires it, you should receive notice and chance to respond. The shift is this: an official decision is not automatically valid just because an official made it. If these limits are breached, Indian courts can examine it through judicial review. They check legality and fairness-not whether you got the result you wanted. So, can an office reject your application, delay your certificate, or impose a fine simply because it wants to? No. No. It has discretion, not unchecked power. Administrative law makes public decisions answerable to law, fairness, and review.