Supreme Court of India

Kunnathat Thathunni Moopil Nair v. The State of Kerala and Another

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Reported as [1961] 3 S.C.R. 77

Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha, Syed Jaffer Imam, A.K. Sarkar, K. Subba Rao and J.C. Shah JJ.

Decided 9 December 1960

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From the headnote

Land Tax-Constitutional validity of enactment-Uniform basic tax on all lands-Classification-Tax on forest areas-Legis lative competence of State-Govcrnment"s power to exempt-Provi sional assessment-Validity-Travancore-Cochin Land Tax Act, I955 (Travancore-Cochin IS of r955), as amended by Act ro of z957, ss. 4, 5- , 7-Constitution of India, Arts. r4, r9(r)(j), 3r, 265. Schedule 7, List II, Entries z9, 49. The Travancore-Cochin Land Tax Act, 1955, was passed· by the legislature of the State of Travancore-Cochin and was amended by Act IO of 1957, by the State of Kerala. By s. 4 of the Act all

Authorities it was built on

1958 Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia v. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Others cited by 108

Where later benches applied it

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2022 All India Haj Umrah Tour Organizer Association Mumbai v. Union of India & Ors referred to
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2016 Jindal Stainless Ltd. & Anr v. State of Haryana & Ors referred to
2012 Bangalore Development Authority v. The Air Craft Employees Cooperative Society Ltd. and Others referred to
1991 Spences Hotel Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. v. State of West Bengal and Ors. mentioned
1969 Assistant Commissioner of Urban Land Tax and Others v. The Buckingham & Carnatic Co. Ltd, Etc. mentioned

Of those, 8 referred to · 2 mentioned

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