Supreme Court of India

M/s New Horizon Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Govt. of Pondicherry Th. Addl. Sec. & Anr.

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Reported as [2012] 8 S.C.R. 874

Bench Altamas Kabir and J. Chelameswar JJ.

Decided 27 September 2012

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CONSTITUTION OF IND/ , 1950: c Art. 254 (2), Seventh Schedule, List-I/ - Entries 1, 30 and 32 read with List /, Entries 43, 44, 45 and 97, and List Ill, Entries 1, 8, 13 and 21 - Validity of Pondicherry Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Act, 2004 (Act 1 of 2005) - Held: The power to enact the Pondicherry 0 Act, the Tamil Nadu Act, and the Maharash"tra Act is relatable to Entries 1, 30 and 32 of the State List, 'which involve the business of unincorporated trading and money-lending - Since the object of Tamil Nadu Act, Maharashtra Act and Pondicherry Act are same

Authorities it was built on

1970 Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India cited by 72
1967 T. M. Kanniyan v. Income-tax Officer, Pondicherry and Anr. cited by 9
1977 Rev. Stainislaus v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. cited by 7
2005 S. Pushpa and Ors. v. Sivachanmugavelu and Ors. cited by 5
1969 Arun Ghosh v. State of West Bengal cited by 2
2003 N. Bagavathy Ammal v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Madurai and Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2013 Soma Suresh Kumar v. Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. relied on
2022 The State of Maharashtra v. 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. referred to
2013 M/s. P.G.F. Limited & Ors. v. Union of India & Another mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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