1998 (8) TMI 526

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..... ppropriate directions. - Civil Appeal No. 8763 of 1994, and 8909 of 1994 - - - Dated:- 13-8-1998 - BHARUCHA S.P. AND KHARE V.N. JJ. V.A. Bobde, Senior Advocate (Ms. Kirti Misra, Advocate, with him) and K.N. Shukla, Senior Advocate (S. Rajappa, Rajiv Nanda and B.K. Prasad, Advocates, with him), for the respondents. Vinoo Bhagat, Advocate, for the appellant. --------------------- .....

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..... d, therefore, was within the competence of the State Legislature. Learned counsel for the appellants drew our attention to the judgment of a Bench of seven learned Judges of this Court in India Cement Ltd. v. State of Tamil Nadu (1990) 1 SCC 12 where the observations, particularly in paragraph 20, would seem to take a very different view; a cess on the royalty payable for excavation of land was he .....

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