Supreme Court · 1984 INSC 221 · Decided 29 November 1984
M/S. Amar Nath Om Parkash and ORS. Etc v. State of Punjab and ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1984 INSC 221 · [1985] 2 S.C.R. 72
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4500/1984
- Decided
- 29 November 1984
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, A.P. SEN, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act-Excess fee collected from dealers by Market Committee u/s 23 declared invalid by Court-Sec. 23A enacted enabling market committees to retain excess collection in case of dealers who had passed on the burden of such fee to the next purchaser of duce-Section-Whether within legislative competence-Whether State Legislature competent to validate levy declared by Court as bad in law. After the decision of the Supreme Court in Kewal Kri1han Puri v. State of Punjab AIR 1980 SC 1008 holding that the increase of the market fee from Rs. 2 to
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