Supreme Court · 1962 INSC 1 · Decided 9 January 1962
Sardar Syedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb v. The State of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1962 INSC 1 · [1962] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 496
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 128/1958
- Decided
- 9 January 1962
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, A.K. SARKAR, K.C. DAS GUPTA, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 26(b)
Headnote
COURT REPORTS (1962) SUPP. S'ARDAR SYEDNA l'AHER SAIFUDDIK SAHEB v. THE STATE OF BO'.\IBAY (B. P. Si~llA c. J., A. K. SARKAR, K. c. DAS GUP'l'A, N. RAJAOOPALA AYYANOAU and J. R. Mun110LKAR, JJ.) Excommunication, Pret·enlion of-Enactment-Conalitu­ ticnal rolidity-Fundamrntal rights of By s.3 of the Bombay Prevention of Excommunication Act, 1949 (Born. 42 of 1949), it is provided thal "Norwithstanding anything contained _in al\Y law, custom or usage for the time being in force, to the contrary, no t'xcommunication of a mem· bcr of any community shall be valid and
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