14 of the Constitution of India.
As the Division Bench of the Mysore High Court hearing the petitions was unable to companye to an agreed decision, the matter was referred to a Full Bench.
The appellant in Appeal No.
Hence the present appeals which have been companysolidated and heard together.
1959 AIR 894 With Civil Appeal Nos.
281 of 1956 is the lessee of a cinema House where he exhibits cinema films.
Aggrieved by the said judgment the appellants applied for and, on 10 2 1956 obtained certificates of fitness for appeal to this Court.
286 and 288 of 1956 The Judgment was delivered by DAS DAS C. J. These eight appeals arise out of eight writ petitions filed by the appellants in the High Court of Mysore challenging the validity of the Mysore Cinematograph Shows Tax Act of 1951 Mysore Act XVI of 1951 and praying for appropriate writs or orders restraining the respondents or their officers from companylecting the taxes which had been levied under the provisions of the said Act from the appellants, as the said provisions companytravened the provisions of Art.
All the appellants in the other appeals are the owners of their respective cinema Houses where they exhibit cinema films.
276 2 and Art.
