Supreme Court of India

S. Kandaswamy Chettiar v. State of Tamil Nadu and Anr.

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Reported as [1985] 2 S.C.R. 398
Bench V.D. Tulzapurkar J.
Decided 12 December 1984

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What the Court ordered

In the result the challenge to impugned notificatipn fails and the writ petitions and the civil appeals are dismissed.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Tamil Nodu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 (Tamil Nadu Act 18 of 1960), Section 29-Notl/icatlon Issued thereunder granting total exemption to all buildings owned by the Hindu, Christian and Muslim religious Public Trusts and Public Charitable Trusts from all the pro,fslons of the Act­ Whether suffers from the vice of excessive delegation of fegislative powers, and therefore, violative of Article 14 of the Constitution-Whether the total exemp­ tfan is excessive unwarranted and unsupportable In as much as a partial exemp· tion would ha-1e sufficed. Io exercise of the powers

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