Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 768 · Decided 22 November 1995
The Secretary to Government of Madras and ANR. v. P.R. Sriramulu and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 768 · [1995] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 551
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 736/1975
- Decided
- 22 November 1995
- Bench
- S.P. BHARUCHA, FAIZAN UDDIN, S.B. MAJMUDAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Tamil Nadu Cowt Fees and Suit Valuation Act, 1955-Levy of Court fee on ad-valorem scale without upper limit-Validity-Essential characters of fee-Feasibility of a fixed maximum chargeable fe~eed for unifonnity in scales of Court fees through country-Economic and social policy of C State-Court's 2 challenged the validity of the provisions of levy of Court Fees and Suit Valuation Act of 1955 with reference to levy of Court Fees ad-valorem working out at the rate of 7 1/2 percent without D upper limit by contending that the levy was not only exorbitant but wholly arbitrary, unreasonable
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