Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 168 · Decided 18 December 1959
Hamdard Dawakhana (Wakf) Lal Kuan, Delhi and Another v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 168 · [1960] 2 S.C.R. 671
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 81/1959
- Decided
- 18 December 1959
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM, J.L. KAPUR, K.N. WANCHOO, K.C. DAS GUPTA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 671 HAMDARD DAWAKHANA (WAKF) LAL KUAN, DELHI AND ANOTHER v. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS (B. P. SINHA, C.J., JAFER IMAM, J. L. KAPUR, ., K. N. WANCHOO and K. C. DAS GUPTA, JJ.) Advertisement, Control of-Advertis~ment, when relates to freedom of speech-Statute prohibiting advertisements amouttis to delegation of legislative power-Statute empowering executive to seize off ending articles, without providing safeguards-Whether imposes reasonable restric­ tions-Constitution of India, Arts. r9(r)(a), I9(I)(g), r9(r)(j) and I9( 6). The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable
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