State Of Karnataka & Anr vs M/S. Hansa Corporation on 25 September, 1980
Sri Srinivasan contends that this is a judicial recognition of, and pronouncement on, the inherent dissimilarities of different local areas and the imperative to tailor-out different quantum of tax to different local areas, and that any uniform levy would necessarily be violative of article 14. Sri Srinivasan contended that these were not general observations but were pronouncements on a point which directly arose for consideration in the appeal before the Supreme Court. He stated that contention 16 formulated in the High Court judgment in Hansa Corporation's case ILR (1980) 1 Kar 165 pertains to this question and that point was considered at para 77 of the High Court's judgment.