Over time, the writ of CERTIORARI in Indian jurisprudence has been extended to lie against ADMINISTRATIVE authorities (not merely inferior courts and tribunals), to quash their decisions where they are vitiated by:

The modern judicial review has WIDENED the reach of certiorari: it issues not only to inferior courts and tribunals, but also to ADMINISTRATIVE authorities that exercise judicial or quasi-judicial functions, to quash their orders where they are vitiated by an error of law apparent on the face of the record, want or excess of jurisdiction, or breach of the principles of natural justice. This extension rests on the proposition that wherever the law requires an authority to act judicially, its decisions are amenable to certiorari. It is a key doctrine in administrative law (as in the leading cases on natural justice). Certiorari thereby becomes a general judicial-review device.