https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168320 Section 5(1) of the West Bengal Special Courts Act, 1950 was held unconstitutional to the extent it allowed the State Government to direct particular cases to Special Courts. The Court found that the Act imposed a materially less advantageous criminal procedure, including exclusion of committal proceedings and other safeguards, and that the power to select individual cases was unguided and lacked any intelligible principle or rational basis linked to the Act's object. The reference of specified cases therefore amounted to arbitrary discrimination under article 14. Notifications issued under that power were also invalid because they rested on the same unconstitutional case-selection mechanism. en-us Fri, 11 Jan 1952 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:18:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168320 Section 5(1) of the West Bengal Special Courts Act, 1950 was held unconstitutional to the extent it allowed the State Government to direct particular cases to Special Courts. The Court found that the Act imposed a materially less advantageous criminal procedure, including exclusion of committal proceedings and other safeguards, and that the power to select individual cases was unguided and lacked any intelligible principle or rational basis linked to the Act's object. The reference of specified cases therefore amounted to arbitrary discrimination under article 14. Notifications issued under that power were also invalid because they rested on the same unconstitutional case-selection mechanism. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 11 Jan 1952 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168320