Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 426 · Decided 27 August 2003
Balram Kumawat v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 426 · [2003] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 24
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7536/1997
- Decided
- 27 August 2003
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, S.B. SINHA, ARUN KUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 19; Wild Life Protection Act
Headnote
Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972/Constitution of India, Articles 14 and 19: Import of Mammoth Fossil Ivory-High Court holding that it conforms C to description of banned ivory in India and hence banned-On appeal, Held: Trade in ivory is completely prohibited to restrict poaching of elephants-Hence violative of Article 14-The law should be interpreted having regard to the subject matter of the offence vis-a-vis D purpose of law it seeks to achieve-Subject matter, if comes within the purview of the law, the Court may not go farther to interpret the law differently-When plain and dictionary
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