https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168860 Acquisition legislation for contract carriages was treated as serving a public purpose because it aimed to prevent misuse, improve passenger transport, and further State policy in the common good. The amount payable was upheld because, although adequacy was not open to review, the statutory scheme was neither illusory nor confiscatory when read as a whole and its payment safeguards were considered. On legislative competence, the law was substantially valid in pith and substance as an acquisition measure, but it had to be read down so it could not operate extra-territorially on the counter-signed portion of inter-State permits beyond Karnataka. en-us Tue, 11 Oct 1977 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:53:58 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168860 Acquisition legislation for contract carriages was treated as serving a public purpose because it aimed to prevent misuse, improve passenger transport, and further State policy in the common good. The amount payable was upheld because, although adequacy was not open to review, the statutory scheme was neither illusory nor confiscatory when read as a whole and its payment safeguards were considered. On legislative competence, the law was substantially valid in pith and substance as an acquisition measure, but it had to be read down so it could not operate extra-territorially on the counter-signed portion of inter-State permits beyond Karnataka. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 Oct 1977 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168860