https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199807 A statutory requirement to lay a subordinate order before Parliament was treated as post-enactment and not a condition precedent to validity, and the competent authority's lawful exercise of power carried a presumption that the necessary governmental opinion had been formed unless rebutted. The Court also treated misdescription of the applicable control order as non-fatal where the facts clearly disclosed the offence and no prejudice was shown. On that basis, the conviction under the Essential Commodities regime, together with the sentence and confiscation order, was sustained. en-us Thu, 05 Apr 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:35:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199807 A statutory requirement to lay a subordinate order before Parliament was treated as post-enactment and not a condition precedent to validity, and the competent authority's lawful exercise of power carried a presumption that the necessary governmental opinion had been formed unless rebutted. The Court also treated misdescription of the applicable control order as non-fatal where the facts clearly disclosed the offence and no prejudice was shown. On that basis, the conviction under the Essential Commodities regime, together with the sentence and confiscation order, was sustained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 05 Apr 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199807