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Oct 16 2015 (SC)

Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association and Anr. Vs. Union of In ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... interest, there is no good reason in principle for so limiting automatic disqualification. 24. lord wilkinson concluded that amnesty international and its associate company known as a.i.c.l., had a non-pecuniary interest established that senator pinochet was not immune from the process of extradition. he ..... country, are expected to maintain a higher degree of rectitude compared to the other public office holders. the expectation with respect to the indian judiciary is no different. the constitution therefore provides extraordinary safeguards and privileges for judges of constitutional courts to insulate them substantially from the possibility ..... the conditions of service of the chief election commissioner, could not be varied to his disadvantage, after his appointment. it was contended, that the indian experience had been, that the chief election commissioner, and the other election commissioners, had functioned with absolute independence, and that, their functioning remained unaffected .....

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Aug 22 2017 (SC)

Shayara Bano Vs. Union of India and Ors. Ministry of Women and Child D ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... that section 116, which guaranteed freedom of religion under the australian constitution, was not in any way infringed by the national security regulations (vide adelaide company v. commonwealth, 67 clr116 127). these were undoubtedly political activities though arising out of religious belief entertained by a particular community. in such cases, ..... the solemnization of their marriage, but certain formalities are prescribed before the marriage can be registered by the marriage officers. for the benefit of indian citizens abroad, the bill provides for the appointment of diplomatic and consular officers as marriage officers for solemnizing and registering marriages between citizens of india ..... , reference was made to the practices of sati , devadasi and polygamy . 123(i). we may only highlight, that sati was commonly described as widow burning. the practice required a widow to immolate herself, on her husband s pyre (or alternatively, to commit suicide shortly after her husband s death). sati .....

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Jul 25 2024 (SC)

Mineral Area Development Authority Etc. Vs. M/s Steel Authority Of Ind ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... in that case the levy was on tea estates as a unit. 195 part i338 the true nature of a tax has to be gathered from the charging section. in indian aluminium company (supra), the charging section provided that the tax was levied for mechanical and biological reclamation of forest land and for rehabilitation so that the land is reclaimed as far ..... activity of removal of earth and not on the land itself and is, therefore, outside the ambit of entry 49 of list ii. (emphasis added) 337. the tax in indian aluminium company (supra), was held not to be a tax on land, but a tax on the absence of land. it was further observed that since the levy was not a tax ..... impact the field reserved to the state legislature under entry 49 of list ii.336. the respondents have relied on a three-judge bench decision in state of bihar v. indian aluminium company,405 to strongly contend that a tax on lands cannot include tax on removal or excavation of land. in that case, the state government levied a tax called the .....

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Jun 28 2010 (FN)

Mcdonald Vs. Chicago

Court : US Supreme Court

..... a similar practice. see, e.g. , racine & mississippi r. co. v. farmers loan & trust co. , 49 ill. 331, 334 (1868) (describing agreement between two railroad companies in which they agreed to fully merge and consolidate the[ir] capital stock, powers, privileges, immunities and franchises ); hathorn v. calef , 53 me. 471, 483 484 (1866) ( ..... privileges, and immunities of such citizens (emphasis added)); treaty between the united states of america and different tribes of sioux indians, art. vi, april 29, 1868, 15 stat. 637 ( [a]ny indian or indians receiving a patent for land under the foregoing provisions, shall thereby and from thenceforth become and be a citizen of the united ..... (1988); negro shot dead for kissing his white girlfriend, chi. defender, feb. 31, 1915, in id. , at 95 (reporting incident in florida); la. negro is burned alive screaming i didn t do it, cleveland gazette, dec. 13, 1914, in id. , at 93 (reporting incident in louisiana). the use of firearms for self-defense .....

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Jan 03 2023 (SC)

Kaushal Kishor Vs. The State Of Uttar Pradesh Govt. Of U.p. Home Secre ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... sufficiency of the existing framework in checking hate speech although, the said term has not yet been precisely defined till date by the parliament. i) the indian penal code ( ipc ) contains provisions which prohibit hate speech. section 153-a penalises the promotion of class hatred. section 153-b penalises imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration". ..... unions at all times. one employee whose services were terminated was not reemployed, as he refused to accept the special condition. therefore, he sued the company for damages and claimed a declaration that his dismissal was a violation of the constitutional rights. holding that the constitutional right of citizens to form associations and ..... of the tamil sangam age (31, bce) in his classic tirukkural . emphasizing the importance of sweet speech, he said that the scar left behind by a burn injury may heal, but not the one left behind by an offensive 1 speech. the translation of this verse by g.u. pope in english reads thus .....

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Jan 02 2023 (SC)

Vivek Narayan Sharma Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... the exclusive domain and control of the central government and under no situation should be parted with by way of grant of license to non government companies and private bodies. while rejecting this contention, this court observed that: ... the national policies in respect of economy, finance, communications, trade, telecommunications ..... to the expert bodies. (e) the validity of the decision of the government to grant licence under the telegraph act, 1885 to non government companies for establishing, maintaining and working of telecommunication system of the country pursuant to 55 government policy of privatisation of telecommunications was challenged in delhi science ..... air1939pc47 90 (ii) similarly, while construing sections 223 and 226 of the indian succession act, 1925 which contain a prohibition in relation to grant of probate or letters of administration to any association of individuals unless it is a company , this court in illachi devi vs. jain society protection of orphans india .....

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Apr 15 1999 (HC)

T.B. Nath and ors. Vs. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Represent ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1999)3MLJ476

..... . hindustan petrolium corporation ltd. : air1996sc264 , held thus:it would be clear from above provisions that by statutory operation, the pre-existing tenancy rights held by esso company with the appellant initially stood transferred and vested in the central government, and thereafter, by operation of section 7 of the esso act, the said rights in turn ..... provision of the central act 4 of 1974 is an exception to the provisions of the transfer of property act as well as the registration act and the indian stamp act, as it provides for automatic renewal for the lease gets renewed without requirement of an instrument of renewal of lease and that the formality of ..... with respect to cases arising out of either under the same esso (acquisition of undertaking in india) act, 1974 or other identical legislation relating to other oil companies which were acquired.8. before proceeding to take up the discussion on the main contention, it is suffice to state that the validity of esso (acquisition of .....

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Sep 01 2009 (HC)

Hindusthan National Glass and Industries Limited and anr. Vs. Reserve ...

Court : Kolkata

..... one way or the other, to a large extent would depend upon the dealings of the stock exchange. 32. the concept that all public sector undertakings incorporated under the indian companies act or societies registration act for being state must be financed by the central government and under the deep and pervasive control thereof has undergone a sea change. the thrust ..... changed to us dollar and swiss franc. the bank apparently made a demand in the sum of us $ 600,000 on the company in march, 2008 which shot up to rs. 14,62,61,186.69 being the indian equivalent of the dollar claim by october 22, 2008. 4. in april, 2008 the bank invoked the arbitration clause said to be ..... contained in the agreement between the parties following which the company instituted ts no. 1475 of 2008 before the city civil court at calcutta .....

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Apr 10 2008 (SC)

Ashoka Kumar Thakur Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors. (Obc Judgment)

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2008(56)BLJR1292; 2008(3)CTC97; [2008(3)JCR176(SC)]; JT2008(5)SC1; (2008)3MLJ1105(SC); 2008(5)SCALE1; (2008)6SCC1; 2008AIRSCW2899; 2008(3)Supreme331; 2008(2)LH(SC)1534

..... accepted.the rule of grammatical construction has been accepted in india before and after independence. in the state of travancore- cochin and ors. v. bombay company ltd., alleppey air 1952 s.c. 366, chief justice patanjali sastri delivering the judgment of the court, said:it remains only to point out ..... that interpretation of a statute being an exercise in the ascertainment of meaning, everything which is logically relevant should be admissible. recently, an eminent indian jurist has reviewed the legal position and expressed his agreement with julius stone and justice frankfurter. of course, nobody suggests that such extrinsic materials should ..... sole factor and it cannot lead to the imposition of quotas, which are per se unconstitutional - each of these propositions has been rejected in indian law and the indian constitution neither admits 'suspect classification' nor 'strict scrutiny'. the constitutionality of quotas has been repeatedly affirmed and reliance by the petitioners on the .....

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May 09 1980 (SC)

Bachan Singh Vs. State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (1982)3SCC24; [1983]1SCR145a

..... tragic person hardened by societal cruelty or vengeful justice, even a hemlet or parasurama. he might have been an angelic boy but thrown into mafia company or inducted into dopes and drugs by parental neglect or morally-mentally retarded or disordered. imagine a harijan village hacked out of existence by the genocidal ..... punishment. so viewed, the lode-star of penal policy today, shining through the finer culture of former centuries, strengthens the plea against death penalty...the indian cultural current also counts and so does our spiritual chemistry, based on divinity in everyone, catalysed by the buddha gandhi compassion. many humane movements and ..... sharply. public protest against this decision spontaneously manifested itself in a burst of flame and fury. thousands of outraged demonstrators rampaged through the civic center, smashing windows, burning police cars, chanting: 'we want justice' writing in 'the voice', a local paper from san franscisco, in its issue of june 4, 1979, lawrence .....

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