https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=108589 Rules 2(r) and 23 of the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977 were treated as valid consumer-protection measures within the rule-making power under the parent Act. The Court read the statutory scheme as requiring disclosure of the commodity identity, net quantity, unit sale price and sale price, and held that defining retail sale price as the maximum payable by the consumer, and prohibiting sale above that declared price, had a direct nexus with transparency in packaged goods. The restrictions on dealers were therefore incidental to the statutory object and were not arbitrary or unconstitutional under Articles 14, 19(1)(g) or 21. en-us Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:05:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=108589 Rules 2(r) and 23 of the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977 were treated as valid consumer-protection measures within the rule-making power under the parent Act. The Court read the statutory scheme as requiring disclosure of the commodity identity, net quantity, unit sale price and sale price, and held that defining retail sale price as the maximum payable by the consumer, and prohibiting sale above that declared price, had a direct nexus with transparency in packaged goods. The restrictions on dealers were therefore incidental to the statutory object and were not arbitrary or unconstitutional under Articles 14, 19(1)(g) or 21. Case-Laws Companies Law Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=108589