Supreme Court of India

Balram Kumawat v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 24

Bench V.N. Khare, S.B. Sinha and Arun Kumar JJ.

Decided 27 August 2003

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the impugned judgment cannot be faulted.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972/Constitution of India, Articles 14 and 19: Import of Mammoth Fossil Ivory-High Court holding that it conforms to description of banned ivory in India and hence banned-On appeal, Held: Trade in ivory is completely prohibited to restrict poaching of elephants-Hence such prohibition is a reasonable restriction in terms of Clause (6) of Article 19-Not violative of Article 14-The law should be interpreted having regard to the subject matter of the offence vis-a-vis purpose of law it seeks to achieve-Subject matter, if comes within the purview of the law, the Court

Authorities it was built on

1979 State of Maharasiitra v. Natwarlal Damodardas Soni cited by 11
1979 Ganeshmal Jashraj v. Govt. of Gujarat Anp Anr. cited by 5
1973 Balkrishna Chhaganlal Soni v. State of West Bengal cited by 2
2002 State of Karnataka and Ors. v. Saveen Kumar Shetty cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 State of Kerala & Ors. v. Moushmi Ann Jacob relied on
2022 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Nirmal Kaur @ Nimmo and Others relied on
2017 Abhiram Singh v. C.D. Commachen (dead) by Lrs. & Ors. relied on
2022 Abhishek v. State of Maharashtra & Ors referred to
2021 Attorney General for India v. Satish and Another referred to
2021 Sanjay Ramdas Patil v. Sanjay and Others referred to
2021 Dr. Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil v. The Chief Minister & Ors. referred to
2020 Indore Development Authority v. Manoharlal & Ors. Etc. referred to
2024 Ramji Lal Bairwa & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. mentioned
2022 Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation v. Sanjay Gajanan Gharat and Another mentioned
2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu mentioned

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to · 3 mentioned

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