Supreme Court of India

Prem Nath Kaul v. The State of Jammu & Kashmir

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 270
Bench Sudhi Ranjan Das J.
Decided 2 March 1959

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What the Court ordered

In the result, subject to t.he agreements saved by the proviso, Maharaja Hari Singh continued to be an absolute monarch of the State, and in the eyes of international law he might conceivably have claimed the status of a sovereign and independent State.

Judgment, page 18

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Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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