Supreme Court of India

Soma Suresh Kumar v. Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 10 S.C.R. 328
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and A.K. Sikri JJ.
Decided 12 September 2013

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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

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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