Supreme Court of India
Soma Suresh Kumar v. Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the impugned Tamil Nadu Act enacted by the State Legislature is not in pith and substance referable to the legislative heads contained in List I of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution though there may be some overlapping.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Andhra Pradesh Protection of Depositors of Financial Establishments Act, 1999 - ss. 2, 3, 5, 8 and 9 - Writ petition u/Art. 32 - Challenging constitutional validity of the Act - On the ground of legislative competence of the State - Held: The Bank in question comes within the definition of 'financial establishment' uls. 2(c) of the Act - It does not fall in the category of institutions excluded from the purview of s.2(c) - o The object and purpose as well as provisions of the Act are pari materia with similar Acts of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, the constitutional validity whereof
Authorities it was built on
- 1970 Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India
- 2011 K.K. Baskaran v. State Rep. by its Secretary, Tamil Nadu & Ors.
- 1993 T. Velayudhan Achari and Anr. v. Union of India and Others
- 2012 M/s New Horizon Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Govt. of Pondicherry Th. Addl. Sec. & Anr.
- 2007 Bank of India and Ors. v. T. Jogram
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Pandurang Ganpati Chaugule v. Vishwasrao Patil Murgud Sahakari Bank Limited
- 2022 The State of Maharashtra v. 63 Moons Technologies Ltd.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to
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