Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 72 · Decided 30 January 2004
I.T.C. LTD. v. The Person Incharge, Agricultural Market Committee, Kakinada and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 72 · [2004] 2 S.C.R. 19
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5321/1997
- Decided
- 30 January 2004
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, G.P. MATHUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Companies Act
Headnote
Agricultural Produce: A B Andhra Pradesh (Agricultural Produce & Livestock) Markets Act, 1966- C Sections 3 and 12-State Government not(ftcation regulating purchase and sale of livestock, classifj1ing live prawns including prawns with or without life in any form, in fish group-Company engaged and exporting them-levy of market fee-Plea that prawn not livestock, thus market fee not leviable-Justiflcation of-Held: Prawn falls D within the definition of fish in the Maritime Act having all attributes of animal, hence a lirestock and Company liable to pay market fee-Maritime Zones <?l
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