Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 174 · Decided 24 April 1961
Guru Datta Sharma v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 174 · [1962] 2 S.C.R. 292
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 41/1960
- Decided
- 24 April 1961
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, A.K. SARKAR, K.C. DAS GUPTA, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1), 133(1)
Headnote
' 292 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1962] GURU DATTA SHARMA v. STATE OF BIHAR (B. P. SINHA, c. J., A. K. SARKAR, K. c. DAS GUPTA, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGARand J. R. MuDHOLKAR, JJ.) Forest-Protection-V olidity of enactment-Constitutional validity-Legislative competence-Notification by State Government (Bihar I2 of 1949), s. 2--Government of India Act, I935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5 Ch. 42), s. 299(2)-Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1)(]). JI (2). In 1946 the appellant was granted a right to cut and remove bamboos and certain other timber to· be found in a specific area of the forest Village
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