Supreme Court · 1989 INSC 166 · Decided 2 May 1989
Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Association of India, ETC. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1989 INSC 166 · [1989] 2 S.C.R. 918
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1395/1987
- Decided
- 2 May 1989
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, S. NATARAJAN, M.N. VENKATACHALIAH, S. RANGANATHAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 19
Headnote
Hotel Expenditure Act, 1987: Sections 2-5, 6 and 24--Tax at C 10% ad valorem on chargeable expenditure where room charges in D E F hotels were Rs.400 per day per individual-Validity of-Competence r of Parliament to impose-Classification of hotel for violative of Article 14--Whether violative of Article 19( l)(g). Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14 and 19( l)(g), Articles 246 and 248, Entry 97 List 1 and Entries 54 and 62, List Il, Seventh Schedule-Hotel Expenditure Act, 1987-Legislative competence of Parliament to impose
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