Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 165 · Decided 19 August 1970
Bimal Chandra Banerjee v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 165 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 844
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2214/1969
- Decided
- 19 August 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Madhya Pradesh Excise Act (M.P. 2 of 1915), ss. 25, 26. 27, 62(1) and 62(2) ds. (d) and (h)-Condition in licence prescribing minimum liquor to be purchased from the Government and payn1ent of excise duty on liquor not taken delivery of-Validity. A B The appellants were excise contractors. In Madhya Pradesh Exciso C Act, 1915, which confers pO\\•er on the State Government to make rules, the State Government introduced a condition· in the licences of th~ appellants prescribing the minimum quantity of liquor v.:hich the appellants. should purchase from the Governmcnt and the
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