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PETITIONER: THE STATE OF BOMBAY
Vs.
RESPONDENT: R. M. D. CHAMARBAUGWALA
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 09/04/1957
BENCH: DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) BENCH: DAS, SUDHI RANJAN (CJ) AIYYAR, T.L. VENKATARAMA SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P. DAS, S.K. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 699 1957 SCR 874
ACT: Lottery--Prize competitions, if and when of a gambling mature--Legislation taxing Promoters of such competition carried on through newspaper printed and Published outside the State--Validity-Test-Territorial nexus--Gambling, if trade and commerce within the meaning of the Constitution--Constitutionality of enactment--Bombay Lotteries and Prize Competition Control and Tax Act (Bom. LIV of 1948), as amended by the Bombay Lotteries and Prize Competition Control and Tax (Amendment) Act (Bom. XXX of 1952), ss. 2(I) (d), 12 A--Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1) (g), 301.
HEADNOTE: The first respondent was the founder and Managing Director of a company, the second respondent in the appeal, which was incorporated in the State of Mysore and conducted a Prize Competition called the R. M. D. C. Cross-words through a weekly newspaper printed and published at Bangalore. This paper had a wide circulation in the State of Bombay, where the respondents set up collection depots to receive entry forms and fees, appointed local collectors and invited the people ...