Supreme Court of India

P. Kannadasan Etc. Etc. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 92
Bench B.P. Jeevan Reddy and Suhas C. Sen JJ.
Decided 26 July 1996
Status Overruled

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, the appeals and writ petitions are dismissed with costs.

Judgment, page 39

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Mines & Minerals: Mines and Minerals (Regulation & Development) Act, 1957-Sections 2 and 9-Scope-He/d, Section 2 of the MMRD Act totally and not merely panly denudes tile States of the power to levy any tax oil the milleral . .-Hence, before enacting the Cess and other taxes oil Minerals (Validation) Act, 1992 no funher declaration of denudation of the States' power was necessmy-Con­ stitution of India, Schedule VII, List I Entry 54. Cess and Other Taxes on Mineral (Validation) Act, 1992-Section 2( I), (2), (3) read with Schedule-Validity of-State laws imposillg cess or other taxes Oil

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