Supreme Court of India

Tata Tea Ltd. & Anr. Etc. v. State of West Bengal & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1988] 3 S.C.R. 961
Bench R.S. Pathak and M.H. Kania JJ.
Decided 5 May 1988

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with the matter, it must be mentioned that the validity of the aforesaid amendments to the Bengal Agricultural Income-taic Act, 1944 made in 1980 and the deletion of the Explana- C tion in Section 2(a)(2) of the Kerala Agricultural Income-taic Act were challenged as being ultra vires and invalid in law on several other grounds.

Judgment, page 28

From the headnote

Bengal Agricultural Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1980-Chal­ lenging constitutional validity of sections 3 and 5 of. Agricultural Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1980 (Kera/a Act No. 17 of 1980 )-Challenging amendment made by-Resulting in deletion of Explanation after clause (2) of section 2(a) of Agricultural Income-tax Act, 1950. Whether entire income of assessee from sale of tea grown and manufactured by him is subject to levy of agricultural income-tax. These Writ Petitions, filed in this Court by Public Limited Com­ panies growing, manufacturing and selling tea in the States of West Bengal and

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