Kerala Court June 1970 Judgments
M.O. Varghese Vs. Thomas Steaphen and Co. Ltd. and anr.
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Jun-29-1970
Reported in: AIR1971Ker223
ORDERM.U. Isaac, J. 1. The petitioner is a director of Thomas Stephen & Co. Ltd.. which is a public company governed by the Companies Act. 1956. He has been a director of this company continuously for the past more than 18 years, by virtue of re-election from time to time. He was last elected as Director in August 19G3. The petitioner's father, Shri P. Oommen. was carrying on a business under the style P. Oommen & Sons. In the course, of that business Shri Oommen was buying Roods from the company. There was an arrangement between them, under which the company had allowed sales on credit to Shri Oommen- He died in 1960; and his business devolved on his wife and sons, including the petitioner, as co-owners. The business has been continued; and it is being carried on by the elder brother of the petitioner. The arrangement with the company for supply of goods on credit has also been continued; and it is still in existence. The Company was inspected in March 1969 by the Inspection Directora...
Tag this Judgment!A. Yousuf Rawther Vs. Sowramma
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Jun-24-1970
Reported in: AIR1971Ker261
V.R. Krishna Iyer, J.1. This case, like most others, reveals a human conflict, over-dramatised by both sides and dressed up in legal habiliments, as usual; and when, as here, parties project a matrimonial imbroglio on the forensic screen, the court attempts a reconciliation between law and justice. What deeply disturbs a judge in such case-situations is the conflict between doing justice by promoting a rapprochement and enforcing the law heedless of consequence. Sowramma, a Hanafi girl, around 15, married in 1962 Yusuf Rowthan, nearly twice her age, but the husband's home hardly found them together for more than a few days and after a long spell of living apart, an action for dissolution was instituted by the wife against the husband. The matrimonial court should, and I did, suggest to counsel, in vain though, to persuade the parties to repair the broken bond. Unhappily, irreversible changes in the conjugal chemistry baulked the effort, the husband having taken another wife and the lat...
Tag this Judgment!V. Hallay Mathew Vs. State of Kerala and anr.
Court: Kerala
Decided on: Jun-19-1970
Reported in: [1971]79ITR72(Ker)
E.K. Moidu, J.1. In these criminal revision petitions the order committing the petitioner for trial to the Sessions Court in respect of charges under sections 276(d) and 276B of the Income-tax Act, 1961, which will hereinafter be referred to as ' the Act ', has been challenged on the ground that the charge under Section 276B is violative of Article 20(1) of the Constitution of India and that the charge under Section 276(d) is not otherwise sustainable.2. The Income-tax Officer, A-Ward, Kottayam, instituted eight separate complaints at the instance of the Commissioner of Income-tax, against the petitioner who was alleged to be the managing director of one Malabar Agricultural Co. Ltd., Kottayam, for his failure to pay to the Central Government income-tax which he deducted from the dividend when it was distributed among its shareholders each year, beginning from April 20, 1961, and ending with February 1, 1968., The year of assessment, the date of declaration of dividend, the date on whi...
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