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W.N. Srinivasa Bhat and anr. Vs. the State of Madras and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1951Mad70; (1951)IMLJ115

..... with the ''publisher and editor of any newspaper' or journal or magazine, still in the present case, the person who is sought to be dealt with by section 3 (3), press act, is only the keeper of the printing press and that section 3(3) in bo far as it related to the keeper of the printing press seeks only to regulate the use of ..... press' is included in the phrase 'freedom of speech and expression in article 19 clause (1) sub-clause (a), and it is a right which is guaranteed to the petitioners: (ii) that the sections of the press act, sections 4 (1)(a) and 4 (1) (d), were an infringement of the citizen's right to freedom of expression and became void under article 13(1) of the constitution, and (iii) that the demand for security under ..... the right of the petitioner to freedom of speech and expression, a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution under art, 19(1)(a); (2) that the said sections of the press act are not saved by article 19(2) of the constitution, which permits legislation by the state affecting the fundamental right guaranteed under article 19(1)(a) of the constitution in certain- specified matters ..... preamble, no doubt, is in very general terms when it says that it is enacted to provide for the better control of the press, it must be remembered that the words 'better control' are used in comparison with the provisions of the already existing law in what is known as the press and eegistration of books act ..... that there shall be no legal censorship against the ..... 1918 ..... 1918 .....

Erimmal Ebrahim Hajee Vs. Collector of Malabar at Kozhikode and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1954Mad1091; [1954]26ITR509(Mad)

..... it is significant in this connection that the british income-tax act of 1918, section 165, authorised the general commissioners, in the event of a person neglecting or refusing to pay the tax charged upon him within ten days after demand, and no sufficient distress can be found whereby the same ..... if the policy and object of the act can be discovered within the four corners of that act including the preamble, and discretion is vested in the government to make a selection in furtherance of that policy and object for the application of the act, then the provision conferring such power is not void as offending article 14 of the constitution ..... but there was no opportunity given to the assessee to appear before the collector by himself or by a legal practitioner of his choice and urge before him any defence open to him. ..... hopkins', (1886) 30 law ed 220 (k), is not confided to his discretion in the legal sense of that term, but is granted to his mere will; it is purely arbitrary, and acknowledges neither guidance nor restraint ..... a plain reading of section 48, revenue recovery act, will convince that there is nothing to compel the collector to inform the assessee of the grounds of his arrest nor allow him to be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice. ..... 552 as follows: 'it is well settled that in its application to legal proceedings article 14 assures to everyone the same rules of evidence and modes of procedure; in other words, the same rule must exist for all in similar circumstances .....

National Textile Workers' Union and Ors. Vs. P.R. Ramakrishnan and Ors ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1983SC75; [1983]53CompCas184(SC); (1983)1CompLJ1(SC); (1983)ILLJ45SC; (1983)IIMLJ1(SC); 1982(2)SCALE1144; (1983)1SCC228; [1983]1SCR922

..... dissolve the company, it is only the creditors and the contributories who would be affected by any action taken in the course of winding up of the company and that is why we find several provisions in the companies act 1956 which speak of winding up being carried on with due regard to the interest of the creditors and the contributories or after consultation with them or confer rights on the creditors and the contributories to make applications for ..... no doubt, it was the creative genius of the bourgeoisie that invented the corporations and the companies, invested them with a corporate soul and a juristic personality and called them legal entities in order to meet the growing and complex demands of modern industry and management, to conduct business and commercial activities more conveniently and efficiently, and essentially to foster, consolidate and stabilise the capitalist ..... wealth and means of production to the common detriment, there is equal pay for equal work for both men and women and the health and strength of workers, men and women and the tender age of children are not abused and citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength. ..... law cited may be good law for england with altogether a different system of economy; but is abhorrent to india, particularly after the constitution (42nd amendment) act, 1976, by which the 'socialist' and 'secular' concepts have been added and incorporated into the preamble of our constitution. .....

Pomal Kanji Govindji and ors. Vs. Vrajlal Karsandas Purohit and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1989SC436; (1989)1GLR418; JT1988(4)SC307; 1988(2)SCALE1287; (1989)1SCC458; [1988]Supp3SCR826

..... is the rationale behind the distinction which the supreme court has pointed out between leases of agricultural lands and leases of urban immovable property while dealing with the provisions of section 76(a) of the transfer of property act, whereas a prudent owner would not ordinarily speaking think of creating a long term lease purely as a matter of prudent management, an owner of agricultural land in the course of prudent management would create a long ..... case, it was contended before this court that there was no such rule of general acceptance that a lease of urban property by the mortgage in possession cannot be regarded to be an act of prudent management within the meaning of section 76(a) of the transfer of property act which carves out an exception to the general rule that a mortgage in possession cannot create, in the tenant inducted by him, a right to continue in possession beyond the period of ..... equity, therefore, at an early date began to relieve against what was virtually a penalty by compelling the creditor to use his legal title as a mere security.my lords, this was the origin of the jurisdiction which we are now considering, and it is important to bear ..... the very preamble to the bombay rents, hotel and lodging house rates control act, 1947 indicates that it was 'an act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the control of rents and repairs of certain premises, of rates of hotels and lodging houses and of evictions (and also to control the charges for licence ..... 1918 .....

Gaurav JaIn Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1997SC3021; 1997(2)ALD(Cri)199; 1998(3)ALLMR(SC)433; 1997(2)Crimes40(SC); JT1997(6)SC305; 1997(4)SCALE657; (1997)8SCC114; [1997]Supp2SCR105

..... union of india : [1987]2scr468 , related to manufacture of drugs and involved examination of evidence to determine the character of the action taken by the government on the basis of advice tendered to it to prohibit the manufacture and trade of drugs in the interest of patients who required the drugs for that treatment. ..... had been made to government by voluntary organisations working for women, advocacy groups and various individuals urging the enlargement of the scope of the act, to make penal provisions more stringent and to provide for certain minimum standards for correctional treatment and rehabilitation of the victims. ..... ground realities should be tapped with meaningful action imperatives, apart from the administrative action which aims at arresting immoral traffic of women under itp act through inter-state or interpol arrangements and the nodal agency like the cbi is charged to investigate and prevent such crimes. ..... attribution as 'neglected children' is not social stigma; the purpose is to identify the children as juveniles to be dealt with under the jj act which is more a reformative and rehabilitated center rather than for punishing the child as criminal; and mend their behavior and conduct. ..... preamble to the declaration of the right of the child adopted by the und on november 20, 1959, provides that the child by reason of his or her physical or mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care including her appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth .....

Kanakaraj Vs. B.V. Sundaraja Iyer and anr.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1968Mad394

..... upto the moment of actual redemption, foreclosure or the sale as the case may be and that either by way of a claim or a defence or a set off or as a counter-claim of the defendant the parties ought to raise all pleas, legal and factual, and seek all the reliefs flowing from the relationship as mortgagor and mortgagee and that the law of procedure does not permit piecemeal and truncated litigations between them leaving some ..... possession is a wrongful possession, but at the same time the mortgagee occupying a fiduciary position to protect the rights and interests of the mortgagor not allowing the property to be sold for arrears of revenue, protecting it from committing acts of waste or damage and also take necessary steps as may be required to safeguard and protect the interests of the mortgagor; because, in our opinion, even assuming that the possession of the mortgagee is that of a trespasser simpliciter ..... 83 of the transfer of property act was entitled to credit the just allowances towards payment of land revenue, and it was held that the mortgagee in possession who wrongly refused to accept the tender or deposit did not thereby become a trespasser and cease to be a ..... the plaintiff purchased certain bales of shirtings from the defendant in august 1918 and sold these bales to his customers. ..... parmanand, air 1918 lah 129, which related to a suit on a registered bond comprising several items and on some of which there was difference of view between the trial court and the lower appellate .....

Valliamma Champaka Vs. Sivathanu Pillai and ors.

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1964Mad269

..... full bench decision in ilr (1956) mad 587 : air 1955 mad 354, and though that view cannot now be siteported in view of the definite provisions of the 'amended transfer of property act sections 92 and 95, the principle may yet be applicable to a case where the non-redeeming mortgagor is out of time to sue for redemption under article 148, and has only a bare right ..... which the redeeming co-mortgagor has as against the other co-mortgagor amounts to a mortgage or not.therefore, where a redeeming co-mortgagor has a period of 12 years under article 132 of the limitation act for recovery from his other co-mortgagors the aliquot share of the mortgage money, there should be a corresponding right in the non-redeeming co-mortgagors to obtain possession of the properties on payment of their ..... in the first instance pointed out that if the amendments effected by act 20 of 1929 of the transfer of property act which came into force on 1st april 1930 would have retrospective effect, the suit would be governed by article 148, otherwise it might tie governed by the decision of this court in ilr 41 mad 650 : air 1918 mad 19 and 41 mlj 501 : air 1921 mad 326, according ..... the substitution1 is a legal fiction to enable the redeeming mortgagor to get the benefit of the security originally tendered in respect of his claim for recovery of ..... ) adichan narayanan's legal representatives were directed to refund the sum of 2069 fanams which had been paid by the vendee, the first defendant, towards the sale with .....

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon. Vs. the State of Maharashtra, Through Cbi , B ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... magistrate or a metropolitan magistrate at any stage of the investigation or inquiry into, or the trial of, the offence, and the magistrate of the first class inquiring into or trying the offence, at any, stage of the inquiry or trial, may tender a pardon to such person on condition of his making a full and true disclosure of the whole of the circumstances within his knowledge relative to the offence and to every other person concerned, whether as principal or abettor, in the commission ..... on 12.03.1993 and also in respect of the offence ofconspiracy and such other offences connected therewith in the commissionthereof.the said order has been read over and explained to the accused inhindi and he accepted the tender of pardon on the aforesaid condition.pursuant to the same, the superintendent, central jail, bombay was directedto keep the accused (pw-2) in a separate cell under proper surveillance andto make him available for the purpose of producing ..... the common law definition of 'criminal conspiracy' was stated first by lord denman in jones case (1832) that an indictment for conspiracy must "charge a conspiracy to do an unlawful act by unlawful means "the court, thus, held that an agreement between two or more persons to doan illegal act or legal act by illegal means is criminal conspiracy.conspiracy itself is a substantive offence and is distinct from the offenceto be committed, for which the conspiracy was entered into. .....

M.P.V. Sundararamier and Co. Vs. the State of Andhra Pradesh and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC468; (1958)IMLJ179(SC); [1958]1SCR1422; [1958]9STC298(SC)

..... . (vi) another contention urged by the petitioners is that the levy of taxproposed to be made by the andhra state on the sale of yarn by them to dealersin the state of andhra is illegal, because under the madras act and the rulesmade thereunder, where there are successive sales of yarn the tax can beimposed at only one point, and as the government of madras had already imposeda tax on the sale within that state, a ..... 22 of the madrasact was null and void on the ground that it was in contravention of art.286(2), and whether the proceedings sought to be takenthere under on thestrength of the impugned act are incompetent; (v) whether tax on inter-statesales is within the exclusive competence of parliament, and whether theimpugned act is, in consequence, bad as authorising the states to levy tax; (vi) whether the proposedimposition of tax is illegal on the ground that successive sales of yarn aresubject under the law to be taxed at only ..... . made the followingobservations, which are relied on by the petitioners : 'the constitutional invalidity of a part of section13(b) of the bombay prohibition act having been declared by this court, thatpart of the section ceased to have any legal effect in judging cases ofcitizens and had to be regarded as null and void in determining whether acitizen was guilty of an offence.' 50 ..... the preamble to the act states that 'it is expedient to providefor the levy of a general tax on the sale of goods in the state ofmadras'. .....

Outdoors Communication Vs. Pwd and Municipal Corporation of Delhi

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 2007(2)CTLJ179(Del)

..... of a contract on the ground that it is opposed to public policy must normally be viewed within the parameters fixed thereforee by longstanding authorities or precedents but in deciding a case it may not be covered by such authorities and lacking precedents, the preamble of the constitution or the principles underlying the fundamental rights and the directive principles in our constitution can be taken recourse to.xxxxxit was further observed:all courts have at one time or the other felt the ..... this notice was followed by a corrigendum dated 21st of february, 2006 whereby the mcd notified all proposed participants that the tender/contract should include only the 'mcd roads (excluding all pwd maintained roads)'. ..... the pwd has also placed before this court the notice inviting tenders issued by the municipal corporation of delhi dated 27th january, 2006 from advertisers registered with it for display of advertisements through kiosks on street light poles existing on all mcd roads including pwd maintained roads in respect of ..... the plaintiff's principal ground of challenge to the action of the defendant no.1 is that the unpeels have been installed pursuant to a legal, valid and binding contract with the mcd which alone has jurisdiction over hoardings by virtue of sections 142, 143 and section 298 of the delhi municipal corporation act, 1957(hereafter referred to as the 'dmc act' for short). .....