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Dec 01 2000

Parents Forum for Meaningful Education and Another Vs. Union of India ...

Court: Delhi

Decided on: Dec-01-2000

Reported in: 2001IIAD(Delhi)20; AIR2001Delhi212; 89(2001)DLT705; 2001(57)DRJ456

ORDERANIL DEV SINGH, J:1. This is a writ petition whereby the petitioners challenge the virus of Rule 37 of the Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 (for short 'the Rules') more particularly Sub-Rules (1)(a)(ii), 1(b)(ii) and (iii) and (4)(a) to (e) thereof.2. The first petitioner is a parents forum which is registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860. The second petitioner Smt. Kusum Jain is its President. The petitioners have moved this writ petition by way of public interest litigation seeking inter alias banning of corporal punishment to students in schools. Though in the petition the petitioners also challenges Sub-Rule (1)(b)& 1(iii) of Rule 37 of the Rules, which provide for expulsion and rustication of a student from school, at the time of hearing, however, the learned counsel for the petitioners only advanced arguments relating to the virus of the provisions dealing with corporal punishment. At this stage it will be convenient to set out Rule 37 which reads as un...


Dec 01 2000

Jagat Mohan Lal Vs. State

Court: Delhi

Decided on: Dec-01-2000

Reported in: 2001CriLJ1381

R.S. Sodhi, J. 1. This Criminal Appeal No. 175/77 has been pending in this Court for nearly 23 years and can brook no further delay. The matter has been shown part-hard before this Court today but no counsel has cared to address arguments before this Court.2. With the help of the learned counsel for the State, I have gone through the judgment under challenge as also the record of the case.3. Brief facts of the case are that Jagat Mohan Lal, Assistant Chief Accountant, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, a public servant, has been charged that on 6.7.73 while employed and posted to discharge his official duties as a public servant abused his position and accepted Rs. 500/- as illegal gratification from Prithipal Singh-PW as a motive or reward for giving him cheque No. OB-9/666783 dated 3.7.1973 for Rs. 15,435/- for wheel barrows that was supplied by his son and thereby he had committed the offences punishable under Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act a...


Dec 01 2000

Gurdev Singh Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court: Delhi

Decided on: Dec-01-2000

Reported in: 2001CriLJ772; 2001(76)ECC443

Arijit Pasayat, C.J.1. Order of detention passed by the Joint Secretary to the Government of Indiaunder Section 3(1) of the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of smug Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (in short, the Act), pursuant to which Swaran Singh Sandhu, hereinafter referred to as the detenu,' is interned in the Central Prison Nasik, is as sailed in this Habeas Corpus Petition by his father Gurdev Singh. Detention of the detenu was considered necessary by the Det'aining Authority with a view to preventing him from smuggling goods in future. The grounds of detention dated 2.3,2000, inter alia, stated various objectionable activities of the detenu. The conclusions of the detaining authority are in the following terms:- 'Taking into consideration the foregoing facts and the material on record. I am reasonably satisfied that your activities amount to smuggling of goods as defined in Section 2(39) of the Customs Act, 1962 and as adopted in the COFEPOSA Act, 1974 via Section ...


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