Supreme Court · 1964 INSC 70 · Decided 12 March 1964
State of Rajasthan v. Shyam Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1964 INSC 70 · [1964] 7 S.C.R. 174
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 884/1962
- Decided
- 12 March 1964
- Bench
- P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.N. WANCHOO, J.C. SHAH, N. RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR, S.M. SIKRI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 295(2)
Headnote
State-Liability of-Merger of one State into another-­ Liability incurred before merger-Merger agreement providing for taking over liability of the merging State- Whether suit against new State maintainable-Constitution of India, Art. 295(2). In 1947, the Dholpur State acceded to the Later on, it was merged with other States and as a result of that merger, the Matsya Union was formed on March 18, 1948. One of the provisions of the merger agreement was that the exist­ ing laws in the Covenanting States were to be continued till such time as they were modified or repealed by
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