Supreme Court of India

Tiie Roman Catholic Mission v. State of Madras and Another

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Reported as [1966] 3 S.C.R. 283

Bench P. B. Gajendragadkar, K. N. Wanchoo, M. Hidayatullah, V. Ramaswami and P. Satyanarayana Raju JJ.

Decided 14 January 1966

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the Provincial legislature had competence to enact the impugned section, it would follow that the section would be sustained by s. 292 of the Government of India Act, 1935.

Judgment, page 15

Authorities it was built on

1959 Ct. A. Ct. Nachiappa Chettiar and Others v. Ct. A. Ct. Subramaniam Chettiar cited by 10
1961 P. V. Bheemsena Rao v. Sirigiri Pedda Yella Reddi cited by 4

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