Supreme Court of India

H.N. Shankara Shastry v. The Asstt. Director of Agriculture, Karnataka

Neutral citation
Reported as [2004] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 406
Bench Shivaraj V. Patil and D.M. Dharmadhikari JJ.
Decided 6 May 2004

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

1 Supreme Court bench has cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Consumer Protection Act, 1986; Section 14(1) : Consumer filed a complaint against seller for selling sub-standard quality of seeds which has resulted in loss/damage to him-District Forum directed the seller to refund price of the seeds and also damages-State Commission modified the order directing the seller to refund the actual price of the seeds with interest thereon-Revision Petition dismissed by National Commission-On appeal, Held: since object of enactment of the Act was to better protect the interest of the consumer, provision of the Act ought to be interpreted accordingly in a rational

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.