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Expatriate Hameed meticulously preserves a vast, diverse collection of global stamps, rare postcards, and letters, featuring historical treasures from pre-independence India, unique regional currencies, and prominent figures, supported by his family.
Even with the government's shift towards digital methods, e-stamps valued up to one ₹lakh are still distributed solely through authorized stamp vendors.
Indian princely states history is meticulously recreated through a rare collection of stamp papers and royal insignias by Santhosh Philip and Feyna.
The stamp duty for registration of contracts for an 11-month period has been jumped from Rs 200 to Rs 500.
An order issued by the government has made it mandatory that the sale of stamp papers of denominations up to Rs. 1 lakh should be through authorized stamp vendors.
Earlier, e-stamping was mandatory only for dealing that exceeded stamp duty of Rs 1 lakh.
Stamp duty had been reduced in 2010 in view of the impact of global economic recession in the real estate sector.
The petitioner's counsel argued that the fixation at a varying range is not found on an intelligible differentia and it has no rational basis.
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