LAWS(KAR)-2007-5-4

STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

Decided On May 08, 2007
STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH Appellant
V/S
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Public Good ought to be the object of the Legislator' - said Jeremy Bentham. A policy decision of the State of Karnataka to declare the state of Karnataka as 'lottery free zone' led to issuance of Notification dated 27. 3. 2007. The said notification is the cause for all these Writ petitions.

(2.) AS the issues involved are common in all the Writ Petitions and so also the prayers, all these petitions are being disposed of by this common judgment.

(3.) THE facts leading to these Writ Petitions are as under: in the budget presented for the year 2007-08 on 16. 3. 2007 on the subject pertaining to 'lottery', the proposal reads thus: