Supreme Court of India

Lala Hari Chand Sarda v. Mizo District Council & Anr.

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Reported as [1967] 1 S.C.R. 1012
Bench K. Subba Rao J.
Decided 28 October 1966

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, we would declare that section 3 of the Regulation is an unreasonable restriction on the fundamental right guaranteed under Art. 19(1)(g) and therefore void.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Section 3 of the Regulation is violative of Art, 19(1)(g) of the Constitution. Even if the Sixth Schedule can be said to contain a policy and the Regulation may be •aid to have been enacted in pursuance of such a policy an analysis of the Regulation •hows that that is not sufficient. Even 1f a statute lays down a policy it is conceivabk that its implementation may be left in such aa arbitrary manner that the statute providing for such implemenation would amount to an unreasonable restriction. provision which leaves an unbridled power to an authority cannot in any sense be characteris..ed as

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