Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 17 · Decided 2 March 1959
Prem Nath Kaul v. The State of Jammu & Kashmir
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 17 · [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 270
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 152/1955
- Decided
- 2 March 1959
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, S.K. DAS, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.N. WANCHOO, M. HIDAYATULLAH (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 370
Headnote
2. 270 SUPHEME COUHT REPORTS [1959] Supp. PREM NATH KAUL v. THE STATE OF JAMM:U & KASHMilt (S. R. DAS, c. J., s. K. DAS, P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAB, K. N. WANCHOO and M. HIDAYATULLAH, JJ.) Landed Estate, Abolition of-Validity of enactment-Legislative Competency of Yuvaraj Karan Singh-Jamm1' Karan Singh on October 17, 1950, in exercise of the powers vested in hirn bys. 5 of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution Act 14 of 1996 (1930) and the final procla­ mation issued by Maharaja Hari Singh on June 20, 1949, by which he entrusted all his po\vers and function to the Yuvaraj. The
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