Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1979SC1725; [1979]118ITR461(SC); (1979)4SCC121; [1979]3SCR1133
1. A nascent Chapter (Chapter XIXA) in the Income Tax Act, 1961, enacted by the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975, whose beneficiaries are ordinarily those whose tax liability is astronomical and criminal culpability perilous, falls for decoding by this Court in this appeal by the C.I.T. Commissioner of Income Tax (Central), Calcutta, against an adverse order made by the Settlement Commission. Functionally speaking, this Chapter, engrafted in partial implementation of the Wanchoo Committee Report, provides for settlement of huge tax disputes and immunity from criminal proceedings by a Commission to be constituted by the Central Government when approached without objection from the Tax Department. It is based on the debatable policy, fraught with dubious potentialities in the context of Third World conditions of political peculium and bureaucratic abetment, that composition and collection of public revenue from tycoons is better than prosecution of their tax-related crime and litigati...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Delhi
Reported in : 139(2007)DLT289
Swatanter Kumar, J.1. Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), a registered Society stated to have been formed for the purposes of conducting public interest litigation in an organized manner approached this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of quo warranto alleging that the respondents no.1 and 2 have illegally permitted Prof. P. Venugopal, respondent no.3, Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (hereinafter referred to as 'the Director') to continue against the post in complete and vent on disregard of the statutory regulations as he is being permitted to continue in that post beyond the age of 62 years as well as he is occupying the post of Cardio Thoracic Vascular Surgeon since his appointment as Director in July 2003.2. The Society claims that it has eminent lawyers as members of its Executive Committee and they are generally interested as public spirited professionals to take legal steps in accordance with la...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1996Mad29
..... at selected regulated markets. 7. tie up with banks for extension of short term loan accommodation to the traders andopening up of extension counters of nationalised banks. 8. programme of publicity through commercial grading at villages itself. 9. provision of water coolers and running water in regulated markets. for achieving ..... traders regarding the post harvest technology, for marketing of quality products. (k) framing a scheme for providing load from committee funds and also from nationalised or co-operative banks on pledging of agricultural produce. the small and marginal farmers are more benefited and this scheme helps to avoid distress sales.' ..... lakshmindra thirtha swamiar of sri mutt, : [1954]1scr1005 supra; h. h. sudhindra thirtha swamiar v. commr. for hindu religious and charitable endowments, mysore, : air1963sc966 ; hingir-rampur coal co. ltd. v. state of orissa, : [1961]2scr537 ; h. h. shri swamiji of shri admar mutt v. commr. hindu religious and charitable endowments dept, : [ .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : 2006(4)CTC483
..... the works contemplated in a regional plan, master plan, detailed development plan or a new town development plan prepared under the act, which includes the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, or over, or under the land and also includes making of any material change in the use of any building or land. sub- section 15 of .....
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1. Leave granted in Special Leave Petition (Criminal) Nos. 1482-1484 of 2008.2. These appeals have been preferred against the Judgment and Order dated 6.12.2007 of the High Court of Madras in Crl. Appeal Nos. 226, 266 and 267 of 2007, and Death Sentence Reference in Trial No. 1 of 2007.3. Facts and circumstances giving rise to these cases are that on 22.1.2000, the students of the Horticulture College and Research Centre, Periakulam, affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore (hereinafter called the `University'), left for an educational tour in two buses. One bus was carrying male students and the other bus was carrying 47 female students. After completing the educational tour, the students came to Paiyur, near Dharmapuri, on 1.2.2000, at about 12.00 midnight, and stayed in the Regional Agricultural Research Centre. On the next day, after visiting the research centre, they left for a tour to Hogenakkal from Dharmapuri, which was the last leg of their tour as per ...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Reported in : AIR2009Kant201; ILR2009KAR3028; 2009(4)KCCR2398; 2009(5)AIRKarR239
1. This appeal is filed by the husband challenging the judgment and decree dated 8.6.2005 passed in M.C. No. 181/2003 by the 1st Addl. Prl. Judge, Family Court at Bangalore, by which the petition filed by the appellant herein seeking dissolution of marriage with the respondent has been dismissed.2. For the sake of convenience, the parties shall be referred to in terms of their status before the trial court.3. The petitioner was married to the respondent as per Hindu rites and customs on 24.10.1993 at Hanumanthanagar, Bangalore. After their marriage, parties started residing at Rajajinagar Bangalore-10. According to the petitioner, initially their relationship was cordial, but after a few months, the petitioner found that the respondent was very reserved and arrogant and of suspicious character. That she used to quarrel with the petitioner and his family members which was tolerated by them hoping that things would become normal in future. That out of the said wedlock, the respondent gav...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Andhra Pradesh
Reported in : 2002(1)ALD136; 2002(2)ALT356
..... the sole object of preserving and protecting the taj from deterioration and damage due to atmospheric and environmentalpollution. it cannot be disputed that the use of coke/coal by the industries emits pollution in the ambient air. the objective behind this litigation is to stop the pollution while encouraging development of industry. the ..... 5 kms from the tourist resorts of badkhal lake and surajkund lake. initially the supreme court directed haryana board to inspect and ascertain the impact of mining on the ecologically sensitive area of badkhal and surajkund lakes. a team of board comprising scientists inspected the area and submitted a report. the committee ..... recommended to prepare environmental management plan and also to stop mining activities within the radius of 5 kms frombadkhal and surajkund tourist places, placing reliance on the report, the supreme court observed as under :the two .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1991SC1557; JT1991(2)SC503; 1991(1)SCALE939; (1991)3SCC375; [1991]2SCR752a; 1991(2)LC692(SC)
ORDERA.M. Ahmadi, J.1. Special leave granted in all SLPs. 2. Mizoram acquired Statehood on February 20, 1987. At the general election held on January 21, 1989, the respondents of this batch of appeals contested the State Assembly elections as candidates of the Mizo National Front (MNF) from different constituencies. The results of the election were declared on January 23, 1989. They lost to candidates fielded by the Indian National Congress (I). The unsuccessful MNF candidates challenged the election of the Congress (I) candidates mainly on the ground that they had indulged in and were guilty of corrupt practices. As many as fifteen such election petitions came to be filed in the Gauhati High Court on one single day, March 9, 1989. Although fifteen petitions were filed, one Congress (I) candidate had succeeded from two constituencies and one candidate belonged to the Mizo National Front (Democratic) Party. On service of notice of the filing of the election petitions, the returned candi...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Delhi
Reported in : 137(2007)DLT195
..... would not be open to the court to adopt any other hypothetical construction on the ground that such hypothetical construction is more consistent with the alleged object and policy. 101. nationalisation was the basis of the arguments advanced by the petitioner that a person who is foreign born will not have the ethos, cultural background, the philosophy, which would be possessed .....
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1. The present common judgment will dispose of the above four connected appeals. All the accused/Appellants were convicted by the trial court under Sections 302 read with Section 34, IPC; the Appellant Savita, in addition, was convicted under Section 203 IPC. 2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that on receipt of DD No. 38A at about 2:24 AM on the night intervening of 02-03.12.1994, SI Sardar Singh reached at H. No.29/156, West Patel Nagar and found Manoj Girotra (the deceased) son of Jagdish Rai lying on the floor in a pool of blood in the first floor drawing room; blood was scattered on the floor, on the pillow and bed sheet. There were number of knife blows on the deceased's body. The bedroom almirahs were open, empty jewellery boxes were also lying on the ground. SI Sardar Singh recorded the statement of the wife of deceased Manoj (hereafter "Savita") who was present at the spot. She disclosed that she along with her husband was watching the film "Burning Train" on TV and at...
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