Supreme Court · 1955 INSC 78 · Decided 20 December 1955
P. L. Lakhanpal v. The State of Jammu and KASHMIR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1955 INSC 78 · [1955] 2 S.C.R. 1101
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 396/1955
- Decided
- 20 December 1955
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, B. JAGANNADHADAS, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, SYED JAFFER IMAM (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21, 22, 35, 32
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 1101 neither the Act nor the rules framed thereunder define those departments. If the nomenclature only matt­ ·ered, then there is no escape from the conclusion that whatever articles and commodities were pur­ chased by the Indian Stores Department or its later activities of the Government through those de­ partments were and the exemption was granted only in respect of those functions of the Government, as already indicated. For the aforesaid reasons I would allow these ap­ peals, set aside the orders of the Letters Patent Bench and restore
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