Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 193 · Decided 26 September 1980
Ranjit Singh ETC. ETC. v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 193 · [1981] 1 S.C.R. 847
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 833/1979
- Decided
- 26 September 1980
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(1)(g), 32; Arms Act
Headnote
Constitution oif India 1950, Arts. 19(1) (g) and 32 and Arms Act 1959- Petitioner granted licence to manufacture a specified number of gun~urtail­ ment of quota-Whether valid-Whether [aches in invoking the jurisdiction of the Court. In 1950, the State Government issued a manufacturing licence \of guns per month. The guns were however not proof-tested. D After the Arms Act 1959, came into force, the government insisted that the guns manufactured should undergo proof-testing. Pursuant to that condi· tion ·in 1960, the petitioners installed machinery and plant, by making
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