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Vasant Investment Corporation Ltd. Vs. Official Liquidator, Colaba Lan ...
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jul-06-1979
Reported in: [1981]51CompCas20(Bom)
Sujata V. Manohar, J.1. The litigation pertaining to the Colaba Land and Mill Co. Ltd. has a stormy history spanning two decades. This, perhaps the last, round of litigation is in respect of a scheme propounded by the petitioners under s. 391 of the Companies Act to bring the company out of winding up. 2. The petitioners are some of the shareholders of the Colaba Land and Mill Co. Ltd., holding in all 15,214 equity share of Rs. 100 each out of a total issued and paid up capital of 49,000 shares of Rs. 100 each. The company was incorporated as public limited company as far back as 1st July, 1880. The authorised capital of the company was Rs. 1 crore divided into 1 lakh equity shares of Rs. 100 each. The paid up capital of the company of Rs. 49,00,000 divided into 49,000 equity shares of Rs. 100 each, fully paid up. The principal commercial activity of the company consisted of dealings in a large number of immovable properties belonging to the company. Originally, the company also had a ...
Jenson and Nicholson (India) Ltd. Vs. Union of India and ors.
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jul-06-1979
Reported in: 1981(8)ELT128(Bom)
Chandurkar, J. 1. This petition raises a question about the construction of a Notification which was issued by the Govt. of India, granting certain exemptions in respect of goods which are subject to levy of excise duties. The notification exempts specified quantities of goods which are cleared by the manufacturers for home consumptions. The notification had been issued initially on 1st October, 1960, the opening part of which reads as follows : 'Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Notification Central Excise, No. 137/60, dated 1-10-1960. In supersession of the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue No. 38, dated the 1st August, 1955) and CER-8(12)/56, dated the 1st March, 1956, the Central Government hereby exempts the goods specified in column 1 of the Table below, which are cleared by any manufacturer for home consumption on or after the first day cleared by any manufacturer for home consumption on or after the first day of April...
Anant Trimbak Sabnis Vs. Vasant Pratap Pandit
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jul-04-1979
Reported in: AIR1980Bom69; 1979MhLJ755
Deshpande, J.1. This appeal raises an important question as to whether the words 'assign' and 'transfer' in Section 15 of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Rent Act') include 'bequest', so as to render disposal of tenancy rights in any premises under a Will, ineffective?2. One Tarabai was the tenant of the premises in dispute. She died on Sept. 21, 1963 without leaving any issue. She executed a Will on December 12, 1958 in respect of her properties including her tenancy rights, bequeathing the same to her sister's son --Gopal and appointing plaintiff, her brother's son an Executor of the said Will.3. The plaintiff obtained a probate of the Will on 5th July, 1965. The defendant is Legatee's another sister's grandson He and his wife were staying with the deceased at the time of her death. Plaintiff called upon him to vacate. On defendant's refusal the plaintiff instituted the present suit for his eviction in the City Civil ...
State of Maharashtra Vs. Jaywant Ramchandra Kamble
Court: Mumbai
Decided on: Jul-02-1979
Reported in: (1980)82BOMLR100; 1979CriLJ1460; 1980MhLJ67
S.A. Masodkar, J.1. This is a State appeal that questions the acquittal of the charge of corruption of respondent pretrapJaywant Kamble, who was engaged as a Police Constable and was working as such at Dafalpur Out-Post. Prosecution against him for offences under section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and section 5 read with section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act has failed before the Special Judge, Sangli.2. Now, the facts upon which the prosecution relied have been satisfactorily proved and can be merely stated so as to indicate the eventual point that arises for decision in the present case.3. In the trap that was laid by Anti-Corruption P.S.I. Surve (P.W. 12) on November 1, 1973 upon a complaint lodged by Kondiba (P.W. 2) on October 31, 1973 as per Ex. 9, in the presence of Panch Vithal (P.W. 3) Rs. 40/-, which were tainted with anthracene powder, were recovered from the respondent Police Constable. As far as the earlier steps leading to the trap are concerned, there is cli...
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