The principle of colourable enactment depends on the adage that what is impossible straightforwardly is impossible by implication. The regulation becomes relevant when a governing body looks to ...

"I thought to return the bill with a request for reconsideration in order to meet the scrutiny about its validity," says Alvi; PM Shehbaz says Alvi "acting as a worker of the PTI".

The Act of 1991, is appropriately called an Act of colourable legislation. As the Courts have held, “you cannot do indirectly which you are prohibited from doing directly”.

The Government of India, and in particular, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has always frowned upon the use of non-debt instruments (read external commercial borrowings) and contractual arrangements ...

An Act of colourable legislation Enactment of the Places of Worship Act, 1991 in its current format damages the liberty of belief, faith and worship to all ...

Exemption from dividend distribution tax on buyback amount, the Authority held, is not on when the buyback scheme is a colourable device to avoid payment of distribution tax.

Panaji: Public interest litigation has been filed in the high court alleging an illegal change of zone of an Aldona property, authorised by chief secr.

The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) contended that presidential reference on Senate polls was a 'colourable exercise' of power designed to advance the political objectives of the ruling ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Telecom service provider Vodafone told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that there was nothing colourable in its transaction with Hutchison International Ltd. for acquiring its ...