Supreme Court of India

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Decided 4 August 1992

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In the writ petitions and the appeals similar questions were raised against the validity of some of the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Debt Relief Act, 1980 and the Karnataka Debt Relief Act, 1976. The petitioners/appellants contended that they being money-lenders and pawn brokers, their business was not related to agricultural indebtedness; that the State Legislatures were incompetent to make any law granting any relief of non-agricultural indebtedness, adversely affecting their interest, that those provisions of the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Acts which purported to extinguish the debts of all…

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