Supreme Court of India

S. T. Sadiq v. State of Kerala& Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 3 S.C.R. 287
Bench Ranjan Gogoi and Rohinton Fali Nariman JJ.
Decided 4 February 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there is no intelligible differentia between the 36 factories and the 10 factories taken over having any rational relation with the object sought to be achieved and o on this ground also Section 6 of theAmendmentAct deserves to be struck down as violating Article 14 of the Constitution.

Judgment, page 34

From the headnote

Kera/a Cashew Factories Acquisition (Amendment) c Act, 1995: s.6 - Constitutional validity of - Notices for acquisition of 10 factories sent between 1984 and 1986 - Similar notices sent to 36 other factories in 1988 by which the said factories a/so acquired under the Act - In case of 36 o factories, Supreme Court passed directions to handover the factories to the respective owners - In case of 10 factories, directions passed to take them over by Amendment Act - The Amendment Act of 1995 was brought into force to cover all 46 acquisitions that had been made under the Principal Act- Whether s.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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