Supreme Court of India
Karnataka Live Band Restaurants Association v. State of Karnataka & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that the Order 2005 does not suffer from any arbitrariness or unreasonableness and nor it infringes the fundamental right of the appellant guaranteed under Article 19 (1)(g) of the Constitution of India.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
The Licensing and Controlling of Places of Public Entertainment (Bangalore City) Order, 2005 – Constitutionality of – Order of 2005 framed u/s.31 of Karnataka Police Act, 1963, regulated the running and functioning of restaurants displaying activities viz. “Live Band Music”, “Cabaret Dance” and “Discotheque” in restaurants – Writ Petitions by appellant- Association before High Court questioning the constitutional validity of the 2005 Order, dismissed by High Court – Held: The 2005 Order does not suffer from any legal infirmity and is therefore constitutional – Appellant’s business activity…
Authorities it was built on
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- 1984 Indian Express Newspapers (bombay) Private Ltd. & Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Union of India & Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 1954 Budhan Choudhry and Others v. The State of Bihar
- 1986 Bijoe Emmanuel & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Ors.
- 1994 R. Rajagopal@ R.R. Gopal and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu and Ors.
- 1970 K.A. Abbas v. The Union of India & Anr.
- 2003 Dharam Dutt and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2016 Cellular Operators Association of India and Others v. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and Others
- 2013 People's Union for Civil Liberties & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr.
- 1969 Mohd. Faruk v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others
- 2013 State of Maharashtra & Anr. v. Indian Hotel & Restaurants Assn. & Ors
- 1991 Deepak Theatre, Dhuri v. State of Punjab and Ors.
- 1969 Kanti Prasad Jayshanker Yagnik v. Purshottamdas Ranchhoddas Patel and Others
- 1992 Life Insurance Corpn. of India and Ors. Etc. v. Prof. Manubhai D. Shah Etc. Etc.
- 1986 Municipal Corporation of the City of Ahmedabad & Ors. v. Jan Mohammed Usmanbhai & Anr.
- 1990 Shashikant Laxman Kale and Anr. v. Union of India and Anr.
- 1983 Delhi Cloth and General Mills Etc. v. Union of India Etc.
- 1995 Tata Press Ltd. v. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. and Ors.
- 2003 Illachi Devi (d) by Lrs. and Ors. v. Jain Society, Protection of Orphans India and Ors.
- 1988 Minerva Talkies, Bangalore & Ors. Etc. v. State of Karnataka & Ors. Etc.
- 1993 Raja Video Parlour and Ors. Etc. v. State of Punjab and Ors. Etc.
- 1974 Pradip Kumar Das & Ors. v. Sta Te of West Bengal & Ors.
- 1995 M/s Noorulla Ghazanfarulla v. L. the Municipal Board of Aligarh, Aligarh 2. the State of Utiar Pradesh, Lucknow 3. Sh. R.N. Mathur, Officer-on-special Duty, Nagar Palika, Aligarh.
Where later benches applied it
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- 2022 Hotel Priya, A Proprietorship v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
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