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Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee and ors. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) a ...

Court : Guwahati

..... judicial review of this court in a writ proceeding under articles 226 and 227 of the constitution of india over the action and proceeding taken up by the census authority/authorities under the census act, 1948 and the rules framed thereunder and the census report under the census act 1948, the objection raised by the intervener questioning the power ofjudicial review of this court in the present writ petition shall not be entertained.23. ..... census act, 1948 provides that--no court inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the second class or in a part-b state, a magistrate corresponding to a magistrate of the second class shall try whether under this act or under any other law, any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this act or any other law, any act or omission which constitutes an offence under the census act, 1948 ..... of the considered view that this court has the power for judicial review over the proceedings and steps taken up by the census authority/authorities in the census act, 1948 for preparing the census report under the census act 1948 and the rules framed thereunder and also over the census report.33. ..... respondents in course of hearing mentioned that this court has no power of j udicial review of the proceeding taken up by the census authority/authorities mentioned in the census act, 1948 and the rules framed thereunder for preparing the census report for the state of manipur and the census report of india 2001 for the state of manipur. .....

R.K.Tripathi Vs. the State of Madhya Pradesh

Court : Madhya Pradesh

..... challenging the order dated 21.1.2011 passed by the collector exercising the powers of statutory authority under the census act, 1948 and suspend the petitioner for dereliction in the matter of discharging duties with regard to census work, the petitioner has filed this writ petition. ..... it is well settled principle of law that when an employee is deputed to work either in connection with election duty or census work then the competent authority under the census act 1948 or the representative of peoples act can take disciplinary action. ..... that being so, the collector having exercised his statutory powers available to him under the census act, 1948, has not committed any error warranting interference. ..... shri deependra mishra, learned counsel appearing for respondent no.4 points out that when an employee is performing a duty of census work under the census act 1948 then the collector, i.e. ..... having heard learned counsel for the parties and on a perusal of the record, it is clear that the petitioner is suspended by the district census officer, namely the collector, discharging his statutory duties under the census act, 1948. ..... the district census officer is entitled to take action against the petitioner. .....

Brij Kishore Verma Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh

Court : Allahabad

..... invalid. (iii) there is apparent inconsistency in two acts namely, census act 1948 and the rules framed thereunder, and the ..... (iii) whether in view of the fact that there is no apparent inconsistency in the two acts, namely, census act, 1948 (central enactment) and the u.p. ..... the census act, 1948 (in short the act), enacted by the parliament, deals with the matter in connection with ..... enactment. the census act and rules framed thereunder will have overriding effect over the order passed under the land revenue act and the rules framed thereunder and to the extent of repugnancy, the decision or order passed under the census act and rules framed thereunder, ..... census. under section 3 of the census act, the government of india has been conferred power to declare its intention of taking census in the whole or in part of territories to which the act extends by the notification published in the ..... (4) though, there is no conflict between the census act and census rules, 1990 with section 11 of ..... ] (ii) publish a notification directing the public to cooperate in furnishing accurate and unambiguous information in respect of the questions that may be put to them through census alongwith an extract of penalties prescribed under section 11 of the act; (iii) [publish] in the gazette the reference date for the census and the period during which houselisting operations and population census will take place under section 3 of the act' (iv) freeze the administrative boundaries of districts, tehsils, towns, .....

Singh Ram Vs. the State of Haryana and ors.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : (1996)114PLR66

..... purpose of undertaking census, the power has been conferred upon the central government under the census act, 1948. ..... of the 1948 act empowers the central government to issue a notification in the official gazette declaring its intention of taking census in whole or part of the territories of india, section 17 contains provision for grant of statistical abstracts from the census reports. ..... his grievance is that although as per the provisions of section 7(2) of the act, the demarcation of sabha area is required to be done by taking into consideration the population ascertained on the basis of last preceding decennial census and reservation of the seats for the gram panchayat is also required to be done keeping in view the total population of the area, the respondent-government of haryana has taken into consideration the ..... section 7(2) and section 9(1 to 4) and (7) of the act have direct bearing on the issue raised in these petitions and, therefore, they are also reproduced below :-'7 (2) the population shall be ascertained on basis of last preceding decennial census of which the relevant figures have been published.9(1) seats shall be reserved for the scheduled cast in every gram panchayat and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same ..... except the provisions of the 1948 act, nothing has been brought to our notice, which empowers the government of india or the state government to undertake any survey or get a report to determine the population .....

Pradeshiya Jan Jati Vikas Manch U.P. and Others. Vs. State of Up and O ...

Court : Allahabad

..... additional advocate general submits that the word 'census' in article 243 (f) means the census as carried out by the central government every ten years under the census act 1948, and no other data can substitute the official figures published in the census. ..... the census is carried out every ten years by the central government under the census act, 1944 to count the population ..... proportional representation in panchayat elections, on the ground, that their numbers for giving them representation for reservation in the seats of chairpersons of village panchayats is not available with the state government, from the census 2001 figures; and whether any other empirical data can be relied upon to fulfil the constitutional mandate.' 2. ..... appealed to the high court is that inasmuch as the definition of "population" contained in the constitution as well as in the act means "the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published," the second proviso to sub-rule (3) of rule 3 which provides for looking into some other records in the absence of census figures is outside the purview of the act and the constitution. ..... the details of the data collected in census 2001 under (the) right to information act, 2005. ..... reorganization act, 1999, the majority of scheduled tribes residing in the state of uttranchal, were separated, reducing the number of their castes in the state of up to five, and their population in the state of up, according to census 2001 .....

Justice k.s.puttaswamy(retd) Vs. Union of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... penal code, 1860, the indian telegraph act, 1885, the bankers books evidence act, 1891, the credit information companies (regulation) act, 2005, the public financial institutions (obligation as to fidelity and secrecy) act, 1983, the payment and settlement systems act, 2007, the income 64 tax act, 1961, the aadhaar (targeted delivery of financial and other subsidies, benefits and services) act, 2016, the census act, 1948, the collection of statistics act, 2008, the juvenile justice (care ..... children from sexual offences act, 2012 and the ..... and protection of children) act, 2015, the protection of .....

Keshavlal Valjibhai Thakkar and ors. Vs. Government of Gujarat and ors ...

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (1996)2GLR313

..... (2) where general election is to be held immediately after,-(i) the specification of a local area as a 'transitional area' or as the case may be, a smaller urban area under article 243-4 of the constitution of india is made, or(ii) the census is taken under the census act, 1948, and the relevant figures of which have been published, or(iii) the limits of a municipal borough are altered:(a) the state government shall, by notification in the official gazette, determine the number of wards into which the ..... borough, then with effect from the date on which such local area becomes or is so declared to be a municipal borough (in this section referred to as 'the said date') the following consequences, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this act or the panchayats act, ensue that is to say -(a) a panchayat functioning in the local area shall stand dissolved and the sarpanch and the upa-sarpanch or as the case may be, the chairman and the vice-chairman and all ..... arts, are as under:243-n continuance of existing laws and panchayats.notwithstanding anything in this part, any provision of any law relating to panchayats in force in a state immediately before the commencement of the constitution (seventy-second amendment) act, 1992 which is inconsistent with the provisions of this part, shall continue to be in force until amended or repealed by a competent legislature or other competent authority or until the expiration of one year from such commencement, whichever is earlier:provided .....

A.P. Sarpanchas Association Vs. Government of A.P. and Others

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : AIR2001AP474; 2001(4)ALT309

..... no.9879 of 2001 (for short the third writ petition) raises the question whether reservation to the members of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes could be granted in terms of 1991 census on thepremise that their population figures of 2001 census are available.in writ petition no.9889 of 2001 (for short 'the fourth writ petition'), the principle of categorisation amongst the scheduled castes is in question inter alia on the ground that ..... writ petition no.9857 of 2001 (for short 'the first writ petition) raises the question as to whether the provisions of andhra pradesh panchayat raj act, 1994 (for short 'the act') purporting to have been enacted in terms of part ix of the constitution inserted by reason of the constitution (seventy third) amendment act, 1992 should be given effect to as it does not conform in letter and spirit thereon.writ petition no.9862 of 2001 (for short 'the ..... supreme court laid down:it is, true, as contended by sri tarkunde, that if the question as regards the justiciability of the president's satisfaction is not to be considered for the reasons that the ordinance has become an act, the occasion will hardly ever arise for considering that question because by the time the challenge made to an ordinance comes up for consideration before the court. ..... census of population takes place in terms of the provisions of census act, ..... section 2(29) of the act defines 'population' to mean the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant .....

Kattimani Chandappa Jampanna Vs. Laxman Siddappa Naik and ors.

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : AIR1967Kant182; AIR1967Mys182; (1967)2MysLJ277

..... section 4 of the census act empowers the central government to appoint a census com-missioner to supervise the taking of the census thoughout the area in which the census is intended to be taken and the superintendents of census operations to supervise the taking of the census within the several states the said section also empowers the state governments to appoint persons as census officers to take or supervise the taking of the census within am specified local area section 15 says that the records of census made by a census officer shall not ..... nor admissible in evidence the reports of census in india prior to the coming into force of the constitution were made by superintendents of census operations for each presidency or province as the case may he the said reports are printed and published by the government and are available for sale to the public the reports of census compiled by the superintendents of the census operations do not fall within the scope of section 15 of the census act and therefore the objection of the learned ..... 1948 is a bar to the court looking into the census reports and placing reliance on the information contained therein. .....

Union of India and Others Vs. Dinesh Kumar Saxena and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1995SC1565; (1996)ILLJ14SC; 1995(2)SCALE14; (1995)3SCC401; [1995]2SCR341; 1995(2)SLJ104(SC); (1995)3UPLBEC1756

..... a census is conducted in the country ever 10 years under the census act of 1948, under the directions of the registrar general and, census commissioner ..... 1991 passed on order dated 12.3.1993 in which it once again directed the framing of a scheme for absorption of these retrenched employees of the census department in the central or state government departments, giving them 'priority' over new-comers or subsequently appointed or other retrenched persons. ..... is directed to consider those respondents, who have worked temporarily in connection with 1981 and/or 1991 census operations, and who have been subsequently retrenched, for appointments in any regular vacancies which may arise in the directorate of census operations and which can be filled by direct recruitment, if such employees are otherwise qualified and eligible for ..... not possible, therefore, to direct the framing of any scheme for their being regularised in the census department since there is not enough work of a permanent nature to keep these extra employees busy ..... /or the staff selection commission may also consider giving weightage to the previous service rendered by such employees in the census department and their past service record in the census department for the purpose of their selection to the regular posts. ..... to safeguard the interest of the retrenched employees, it ordered the respondents to make any fresh recruitment in the census department or for its allied work only from amongst the retrenched employees. .....