Justice Nagarathna disagreed on overruling the 1989 judgment by a seven-judge bench led by her father and then CJI ES Venkataramiah. (Agencies) NEW DELHI: Justice B V Nagarathna on Wednesday penned a lengthy opinion to disagree on all but one issue with the eight other judges on a bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday further expanded the scope of fiscal federalism by enabling states to exercise virtually complete legislative control over liquor production and trade, a ruling that will empower them to tax industrial alcohol, including denatured spirit and extra neutral alcohol (ENA), which were hitherto part of the sole domain of the…
NEW DELHI: Union government on Tuesday told Supreme Court that Constitution-framers intended to give Centre complete control over any industry in public interest through a Parliament-enacted law ousting states’ jurisdiction and this power was used by Modi govt to order diversion of steel plant produced oxygen to hospitals and industrial alcohol for hand sanitisers during…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, governed by bitter political rivals BJP and TMC, displayed spectacular bonhomie in the Supreme Court on Wednesday when it came to controlling the revenue-rich liquor industry and pleaded for ousting central govt’s role by arguing that when all kinds of alcohols are intoxicating liquor, constitutionally states alone would…
