1998 (4) TMI 513

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....delivered by Y. BHASKAR RAO, J.-These batch of writ appeals are filed by the State assailing the judgment of the learned single Judge allowing the writ petitions. 2.. The facts of the case are that the writ petitioners filed writ petitions assailing the amendment made to the Karnataka Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas for Consumption, Use or Sale Therein Act, 1979 which resulted in dele....

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....ective effect from the date of interpretation of Chapter II-A of the Act. That is challenged in the present petitions. 3.. The learned single Judge allowed the writ petitions holding that the amendment Act without obtaining the assent of the President is violative of the Constitution and further held that: "Since in the present case admittedly, the said constitutional requirement was not com....

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....f Karnataka [1998] 109 STC 26; ILR 1998 Kar 576, the appeals are pending before the Supreme Court. We make it clear that in case the Supreme Court holds in favour of the tax-payers, it is open to the writ petitioners to approach this Court on renewing the request. 5.. We make it clear that this judgment will apply to all the tax-payers without further approaching this Court, and the judgment in....