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Vadivelu Thevar v. The State of Madras

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Reported as [1957] 1 S.C.R. 981
Bench B. Jagannadhadas, Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha and P.B. Gajendragadkar JJ.
Decided 12 April 1957

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67 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, both the appeals fail and are dismissed.

Judgment, page 15

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to · 62 mentioned

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