Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 273 · Decided 17 October 1968

Mohan Meakin Breweries LTD. v. Commissioner of Excise, Bihar & ORS.

Court: Supreme Court of India
Citation: 1968 INSC 273 · [1969] 2 S.C.R. 457
Case number: WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 14/1968
Decided: 17 October 1968
Bench: M. HIDAYATULLAH, S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE (5-judge bench)
Outcome: Appeal(s) allowed
Case type: Writ / Constitutional
Acts & sections cited: Constitution Article 32

Headnote

B c D E F G H MOHAN MEAKIN BREWERIES LTD . v. COMMISSIONER OF EXCISE, BIHAR & ORS. October 17, 1968 [M. HIDAYATULLAH, CJ., S. M. SJKRI, R. S. BACHAWAT, G. K. MITTER AND K. S. HEGDE, JJ.J Bihar & Orissa Excise Act (2 of 1915), ss. 27, 28 and r. 147- lncrease in duty on liquor-Jncreas.ed The petitioner was a company manufacturing Indian made foreign liquor in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It had depots for sale of its products at Patna and Ranchi in the State of Bihar. Before October 13, 1967 it imported foreign liquor into the State of Bihar from Himachal Pradesh and

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