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PETITIONER: MESSRS. DWARKA PRASAD LAXMI NARAIN
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND TWO OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 11/01/1954
BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. BENCH: MUKHERJEA, B.K. JAGANNADHADAS, B. MAHAJAN, MEHAR CHAND (CJ) BOSE, VIVIAN HASAN, GHULAM
CITATION: 1954 AIR 224 1954 SCR 803 CITATOR INFO : RF 1954 SC 465 (8) RF 1956 SC 479 (19) R 1956 SC 559 (4) F 1956 SC 676 (51) E 1957 SC 397 (16) RF 1957 SC 896 (12) F 1958 SC 538 (12) R 1958 SC 578 (168) E&D 1960 SC 475 (9,11,13) F 1961 SC 705 (15) R 1961 SC1602 (12) RF 1964 SC 370 (6) D 1971 SC 474 (6) R 1974 SC 366 (61,94) D 1974 SC 651 (17) R 1978 SC 771 (14) RF 1978 SC1457 (63) RF 1981 SC1829 (95) RF 1988 SC1089 (11)
ACT: Constitution of India, Arts. 19(1) (g), 19 (6)--Clause 4(3) of the Uttar Pradesh Coal Control Order, 1953, whether ultra vires the Constitution.
HEADNOTE: A law or order which confers arbitrary and uncontrolled power upon the executive in the matter of regulating trade or business in normally available commodities must be held to be unreasonable. Under cl. 4(3) of the Uttar Pradesh Coal Control Order, 1953, the licensing authority has been given absolute power t...