ISSUE:
Whether the Orissa State Estates Abolition Act, 1952 is a piece of colourable legislation?
Whether the Orissa Estate Abolition Act, 1952, is Constitutionally Valid?
RULE:
The doctrine of colourable legislation does not involve any question of bona fides or mala fides on the part of the legislature. The whole doctrine resolves itself into the question of the competency of a particular legislature to enact a particular law. If the legislature is competent to pass a particular law, the motives that impelled it to act are really irrelevant.