Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : May-25-1951
Reported in : (1951)53BOMLR982; (1951)IIMLJ141; [1951]2SCR682
..... invalid. so far as the cargoboats are concerned, it was contended on behalf of the petitioner that no rational differentiation could be made between them and the passenger boats, and there was no conceivable ground for granting exemption or concession of any kind to the former. here again, we cannot assume that the legislature ..... any classification. for instance, section 35 deals with licences to hotels, section 37 with licences to dining cars and coastal steamers, section 38 with licences to shipping companies, section 40 with permits to foreigners and persons who need liquor on grounds of health, section 41 with permits to foreign sovereigns and diplomats, section ..... as may be specified in the notification published in the official gazette, permit the use or consumption of foreign liquor on cargo boats, warships and troop-ships and in military and naval messes and canteens.' 41. what is contended is that the concession shown to the warships, troopships, and military and naval messes .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Decided on : Mar-15-1951
Reported in : AIR1951All718
..... . on the other side, & it was not easy to say why cargo boats should be treated differently from coasting steamers or passenger ships. there was also no justification for discriminating between military messes & civilian clubs. the pull bench relied upon the cases of barbier, & lindsley. it observed that if ..... habitual criminals who have acquired a bad reputation & others who have not & the difference in the treatment meted out to them has no intelligible connection with the acquisition, or non-acquisition, of a reputation as bad character. there is no reason why habitual criminals who have not acquired a bad reputation should be dealt with under section 110 of ..... the special procedure prescribed for those who have acquired a bad reputation & the orders that may be passed against them under the act have nothing to do with the acquisition by them of a bad reputation. there is no reason why a habitual criminal who is sly & sleek & succeeds in concealing his criminality from the general public .....
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