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Jun 13 2008 (HC)

Tata Steel Limited and ors. Vs. State of Jharkhand and ors.

Court : Jharkhand

Reported in : [2008(3)JCR365(Jhr)]

..... on the other hand submitted that the relevant provisions of the vat tax act relating to imposition of entry tax under facially and patently show that the levy of entry tax is compensatory in nature for the following reasons:(i) the preamble of the act, after amendment by 2007 amendment act says that value added tax act is an act to provide for and consolidate the laws relating to value added tax on sale or purchase ..... member(e) secretary, agriculture and sugarcane ex-officiodepartment, government of jharkhand member(f) secretary, industries department, government ex-officiojharkhand member(g) secretary, energy department, government of ex-officiojharkhand member(h) secretary, drinking water and sanitation ex-officiodepartment, government of jharkhand member5. ..... submitted that when the tax is as a part of regulation or as a part of regulatory measures, its basis shifts from the concept of 'burden' to the concept, of measurable/quantifiable benefit and then it becomes 'a compensatory tax' and its payment is then not for revenue but as reimbursement/recompense to the service/facilily provider.30 ..... services such as convenient roads, protection from transport of goods through traffic ..... in 2007 have been challenged mainly on the ground that it does not fulfill the requirement of articles ..... for assistance to local areas for their development generally and the amendment brings about only a superficial change in the language while retaining the basic character of the levy as a source for ..... karnataka .....

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Nov 06 1996 (SC)

Air India Statutory Corporation, Etc. Vs. United Labour Union and Othe ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1997SC645; (1997)3GLR2576; (1997)ILLJ1113SC; 1996(9)SCALE70; (1997)9SCC377; [1996]Supp9SCR579

..... indication of the corporation being impregnated with governmental character; (3) it must also be relevant factor whether the corporation enjoys monopoly status which is state conferred or state protected; (4) existence of deep and pervasive state control may afford an indication that the corporation is a state agency or instrumentality; (5) if the functions of the corporation ..... treated as principal employer with various statutory obligations flowing from the act in connection with regulation of the working conditions of the contract labourers who are brought by the intermediary contractor on the principal's establishment for the benefit and for the purpose of the principal employer and who do his work ..... engineering case on the interpretation of the phrase 'appropriate government', it would be necessary to recapitulate the preamble, fundamental rights (part iii) and directive principle (part iv) - trinity setting out the conscience of the constitution deriving from the source 'we, the people', a charter to establish an egalitarian social order in which social and economic justice with ..... to provided sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water as well as sufficient number of ..... and that there is to be no private possession, but in the sense that there is no distinction of property on the grounds of natural law, but only by human agreement, and this pertains to positive law, as we have already shown. ..... karnataka high court against which an appeal came to be filed and the power to regulate .....

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Apr 25 2000 (SC)

State of Karnataka Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2001SC1560; JT2000(6)SC1; 1999(4)SCALE332; (2000)9SCC572

..... karnataka was not at all inclined to resolve the problem by any amicable discussion nor did it desire any effort for mediation being undertaken by anyone whatsoever, the plaintiff had no other alternative but to approach this court under article 131 of the constitution for declarations and injunctions against the defendants for protection of the rights of the plaintiff state as well as the rights of its inhabitants flowing from the decision of the krishna ..... no ground for any further clarification.however, we may add that this project is to be executed by stages and if it is found in future that more water is available for distribution between the three states, the claim of karnataka for allocating more water ..... act has not imposed any restriction on any state for construction of any project and on the other hand clause xv expressly mentioned that: 'nothing in the order of the tribunal shall impair the right or power or authority of any state to regulate within its boundaries the use of water, or to enjoy the benefit of ..... the plaintiff voluntarily agreed for supply of 15 tmc of drinking water to madras, which ..... said act, as its preamble shows, is an act to provide for the 'adjudication of disputes relating to ..... the sources of water in this country are either the frozen snow which melts in summer or accumulated ..... karnataka to assess the magnitude and extent of submergence in maharashtra, karnataka has now stated that such surveys would be done by karnataka only from april, .....

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Aug 02 2004 (SC)

Godawat Pan Masala Products I.P. Ltd. and anr. Vs. Union of India (Uoi ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2004SC4057; 2004(5)ALLMR(SC)970; 2005(1)BomCR194; JT2004(6)SC179; (2004)4MLJ67(SC); 2004(6)SCALE388; (2004)7SCC68; 2004(2)LC1449(SC)

..... preamble to the act 34 of 2003 reads as under: 'an act to prohibit the advertisement of, and to provide for the regulation of trade and commerce in, and production, supply and distribution of, cigarettes and other tobacco products and for ..... and 7 are engaged in the manufacture and sale of pan masala and gutka in the state of karnataka they are aggrieved by a notification dated 27th february, 2002, issued by the competent officer appointed as food (health) authority for the state of andhra pradesh under section 7(iv) of the act, by which the sale of all brands of pan masala (containing tobacco) and chewing tobacco/ zarda ..... drink for human consumption other than drugs and water and includes- (a) any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food,(b) any flavouring matter or condiments, and(c) any other article which the central government may, having regard to its use, nature, substance or quality, declare, by notification in the official gazette, as food for the purposes of this act ..... , it gives the impression that this is an independent source of power, not subject to any limitation other than ..... passive smoking) and to prevent the sale of tobacco products to minors and to protect them from becoming victims of misleading advertisements. ..... food, on the ground that it is injurious to health, belongs appropriately to the central government to be exercised in accordance with the rules made under section 23 of the act, particularly, sub- ..... 1999 .....

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Apr 12 2004 (HC)

Gujarat Forest Producers, Gatherers and Forest Workers Union Vs. State ...

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (2004)2GLR568; (2004)IIILLJ259Guj

..... . he also submitted that the state or local regulations for the protection of the natural environment or the ecology of an area were ..... . the decision in jay narayan was confined only to central ground water board in respect of which the court did not have 'the slightest hesitation in holding that the central ground water board was not an industry'.28.2 even in sureshkumar verma (supra), the supreme court was not at all concerned with the question whether the irrigation department ..... of the word 'service' from the provisions of section 2(z) of the trade marks act, 1999, section 2(1)(o) of the consumers protection act, 1986, section 2(r) of the monopolies & restrictive trade practice act, 1969 ..... reported in 2001(4) lln 1190, holding that uttar pradesh jal nigam was an industry within the meaning of section 2(j), and the decision of the karnataka high court in tungabhadra board, tungabhadra dam, hospet, bellary district v ..... . it was held that, in view of the preamble, objects and reasons and the scheme of the agricultural produce marketing (regulation) act, 1996, the predominant object clearly being regulation and control of trading of agricultural produce, the marketing committee including its functionaries cannot be said to be performing functions which are sovereign in character, and most of its functions could be ..... water supplies are also being made available for the industrial development in areas where no other source for ..... into finished goods, such as, making of clothes, cars, tvs, drinks .....

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Nov 20 2003 (SC)

State of Punjab and anr. Vs. Devans Modern Brewaries Ltd. and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : JT2003(10)SC485; 2003(10)SCALE202; (2004)11SCC26

..... (1995) 514 us 549 the united states supreme court struck down a statute as beyond the congress' commerce power on the ground that the activity regulating was neither a part of nor at a substantial fact upon interstate commerce. ..... state of arizona (1945) 325 us 761, it is stated:'for a hundred years it has been accepted constitutional doctrine that the commerce clause, without the aid of congressional legislation, thus affords some protection from state legislation inimical to the national commerce, and that in such cases, where congress has not acted, this court, and not the state legislature, is under the commerce clause the final arbiter of the competing demands of state and national ..... one way that the tax exemption might produce that result is that drinkers of other alcoholic beverages might give up or consume less of their customary drinks in favor of the exempted products because of the price differential that the exemption will permit. ..... the states of punjab and kerala exercised its constitutional power in enacting the said act, the sources whereof are referable to entry 8 or 51 of list ii of the seventh schedule of the constitution of ..... may be present in the preamble of our constitution. ..... of karnataka and ors ..... : (1999)9scc700 with reference to scriptures which are thousands years old, the court did not make a similar attempt in case of indian made foreign liquor or imported liquor nor considered that sacramental wine has received statutory protection under the laws validly .....

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Jul 28 2004 (HC)

Vijay Singh and ors. Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh and ors.

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : 2005(2)AWC1191; (2004)3UPLBEC2778

..... the court held as under :'incidentally, the police act, 1861 being an act for regulation of police has the following as its preamble : 'whereas it expedient to re-organise the police and to make it a more efficient instrument for the prevention and detection of crime'. ..... and communicate intelligence affecting the public peace, to prevent the commission of offences and public nuisances, to detect and bring offenders to justice and to apprehend all persons whom he is legally authorized to apprehend, and for whose apprehension sufficient ground exists; and it shall be lawful for every police officer, for any of the purposes mentioned in this section, without a warrant, to enter and inspect any drinking-shop, gaming-house or other place of resort of loose and disorderly characters.'88. ..... laws in force immediately before the constitution shall continue to be in force until altered or repealed or amended by a competent legislature or other competent authority, the court further relied upon the provisions of section 276 of the government of india act, 1935 which provided for continuity of the old laws under the government of india act, 1999 by a deeming fiction.36. ..... the scope of articles 14 and 16 of the constitution has been widened by judicial interpretation to mean not only the right to be not discriminated but also protection of any arbitrary or irrational act of the state. ..... state of karnataka : [1987]1scr1054 ..... state of karnataka and ors ..... state of karnataka and ors. ..... karnataka lokayukta and .....

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Mar 22 2010 (HC)

M.K. Balakrishnan S/O A. Govindan, Vs. Government of Karnataka Represe ...

Court : Karnataka

..... acts as a source for the under water table feeding several borewells on which the farmers in nearby villages depend for irrigation of their lands and for drinking water ..... spirited individuals who are environmentalists have come up before this court to impress upon the court the obligation of the state to protect the fragile eco-system and that no private interests are created in the lakes, tanks, rivers, forests and other natural ..... of land in mallenahalli village, bangalore taluk acquired at the cost of the government and placed at the disposal of the committee for the purposes of the race course on the ground that the bangalore race course committee had no power of alienation over the lands and their control being limited only to carry ..... out that this court has passed an interim order on 22.08.1995 in the said writ petition directing the government of karnataka and the conservators of forests not to make any grant or allotment of tank bed lands situated within the bangalore metropolitan ..... the kalambandis in question did not amount to a quanun or law technically so called, they would nevertheless be orders or regulations which had the force of law in the state of gwalior at the material time and would be saved under article 372 ..... preamble to the impugned government order makes it clear that none of the relevant factors are borne in mind in coming to a conclusion that an extent of 85 acres of the tank bed area could be granted in favour of the bangalore turf club on lease basis for ..... 1999 .....

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Sep 21 2004 (HC)

T. Muralidhar Rao Vs. State of A.P. and ors.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2004(6)ALD1; 2004(5)ALT634

..... the source of drinking water is beyond half a kilometer for more ..... court while adverting to the question whether the notification issued by the sikkim government deciding to make special recruitment to the services on the basis of written examination-cum-viva voce test on the ground of exigencies of service without consultation with the public service commission was valid in law observed:'the executive power of the state cannot be exercised in the field which is already occupied by the ..... section 12 of act 31 of 1998 deals with the functions of the commission which include evaluation of the working of various safeguards provided in the constitution for protection of the minorities and in laws passed by the union and state governments; to make recommendations with a view to ensure effective implementation and enforcement of all (safeguards and) the laws; to undertake ..... learned senior counsel, sri gangaiah naidu, that since the muslims are already determined and classified as socially backward by the states of kerala, karnataka and tamilnadu and they cannot be otherwise in the state of andhra pradesh, and they are required to be classified as such, is ..... family welfare, labour and employment, higher education and school education departments are requested to make necessary amendments to the rules and regulations in this regard.these orders will come into force with immediate effect.10. ..... the preamble to the constitution declares the philosophical objects sought to be ..... (1999)illj885sc .....

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May 01 2009 (HC)

Kommisetty Nammalwar and Co. Rep. by Its Proprietor Kommisetty Nammalw ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2009(4)ALT431:AIR2009NOC2482(A.P)(F.B).

..... 27.12.1979, directing market committees to provide basic amenities like drinking water for users of the market, drinking water for users of the market, drinking water for the cattle shed, shed for the use of the users of yard etc. ..... & agriculture department dated 29-3-1972 and deleted 'ghee' from the notified products on the ground that it is not livestock product is incorrect and misconceived for the reason that at no point of time the government had deleted 'ghee' beyond the purview of regulation of notified agricultural produce, livestock and products of livestock specified under schedule ii of the act. ..... was stated that w.p.no.20121/94 filed by the petitioner was dismissed along with the batch of writ petitions by common order dated 8-9-1999 and this court negatived the contentions of the petitioners therein and held that the petitioners have to obtain licence under section 7(1) of the act for trading in 'ghee' and pay market fee as long as 'ghee' remains as a notified product in the statute book ..... and the wisdom of the legislature cannot be tested by taking aid of the preamble of the act particularly when the language of section 2(1)(a) is inclusive, unambiguous, specific and explicit ..... arguments advanced in the maharashtra and karnataka cases were advanced in the bihar ..... would have been any the act having received assent of the president it is fully protected by article 254(2).103. ..... by granting this protection, it shall not be construed as if we have expressed any order on the merits .....

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