Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 35 · Decided 9 April 1957
R.M.D.CHAMARBAUGWALLA v. The Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 35 · [1957] 1 S.C.R. 930
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 78/1956
- Decided
- 9 April 1957
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, S.K. DAS, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(6), 32
Headnote
930 SUFREME COURT REPORTS R.M.D.CHAMARBAUGWALLA "· THE UNION OF INDIA (with connected petitions) [1957] (S. R. DAS C.J., VENKATARAMA AYYAR, B. P. SINHA, S. K. DAs and P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAR JJ.) Prize Competition-Definition-Construction-If includes competition other than of a gamOling in the different States of India, challenged the constitutionality of ss. 4 and 5 of the Prize Competitions Act ( 42 of 1955) and rr. II and 12 framed under s. 20 of the Act. Their contention was that 'prize competition' as defined in s. 2( d) of the Act included not merely
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