Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 119 · Decided 22 February 2013
State of Kerala and Others v. Kandath Distilleries
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 119 · [2013] 4 S.C.R. 1053
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1642/2013
- Decided
- 22 February 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 10; Constitution Article 19(1)(g), 14
Headnote
Liquor - Application for licence for setting up distillery unit A B - Non-consideration of - After intervention of the Court, application considered and then rejected by competent C authority - Courts below quashed the rejection order directing grant of the licence - On appeal, held: Courts below distillery licence by issuing writ of mandamus - Grant of the same was within the discretionary power of the competent authority - Court should not have interfered with the D same, unless the applicant established a better claim over others, which the applicant failed - Abkari Act - s. 14 -
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