Supreme Court of India

Tinsukhia Electric Supply Co. Ltd. v. State of Assam and Ors.

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Reported as [1989] 2 S.C.R. 544

Bench R.S. Pathak, Sabyasachi Mukharji, S. Natarajan, M.N. Venkatachaliah and S. Ranganathan JJ.

Decided 13 April 1989

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons all the contentions urged by the petitioners in support of their challenge to the impugned legislations fail.

Judgment, page 56

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14, 19, 31- and 39(b) and (c)-Nationalisation-Acquisition and take over of electric. supply companies by State Government-Validity of-Nexus between the legis · lation and the objectives and principles of nationalisation-Court to look into the real nature of the statute. -Y Indian Electricity Act, 1910/ Indian Electricity (Assam Amendment) Act, 1973: Sections 5(2), 6(7) and ? -Acquisition and take over of electricity supply companies-Constitutional validity of. Tinsukhia and Dibrugarh Electric Supply Undertakings (Acquisi- tion) Act, 1973: Sections 1(3),

Authorities it was built on

1973 His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalavaru v. State of Kerala cited by 118
1962 Akadasi Padhan v. State of Orissa cited by 20

Where later benches applied it

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2000 U.P. State Electricity Board v. Upper Jamuna Valley Electricity Supply Co. Ltd. mentioned
2000 State of U.P. v. The Upper Jamuna Valley Electricity Supply Co. Ltd. and Ors. mentioned
1996 Mis. Pilibhit Electric Supply Co. (p) Ltd. and Anr. v. Special Officer (electricity) and Anr. mentioned
2019 Union of India & Anr. v. Tarsem Singh & Ors. distinguished

Of those, 1 distinguished · 6 referred to · 4 mentioned

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