Court : Allahabad
Reported in : AIR1957All505
Desai, J.1. This is an application, purporting to be under Order 45, Rule 13, C. P. C., for the issue of an order staying operation of the order passed by this Court on October 8, 1956, in Writ Petition No. 252 of 1956 and maintaining the status quo as regards possession over the land covered by the orders of the consolidation authorities. The facts leading to this application are as follows:2. Under Section 26 of the U. P. Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 (No. 5 of 1954) possession of some land belonging to opposite parties Nos. 1 to 11 was transferred to other tenants of the village, who are opposite parties 12 to 16. After exhausting the remedy as provided in the Act against the transfer they filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, Mukhtar Singh v. State of U. P. : AIR1957All297 . A Bench of this Court quashed the orders of the consolidation authorities regarding transfer of possession of the Opposite parties' land on 8th October, 1956 on the ground that Section 14 (ee) of the...
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Reported in : AIR1964All523
Pathak, J.1. This is an appeal under the Representation of the People Act, 1951 against an order dismissing an election petition.2. The first respondent, Z.A. Ahmad, was declared elected on February 28, 1962 to the U.P. Legislative Assembly from the Kopaganj Assembly Constituency in the district of Azamgarh. An election petition challenging the validity of his election was presented by the appellant, who was one of the contesting candidates and had received the next highest number of votes in the election. The election petition was referred by the Election Commission to the Election Tribunal, Azamgarh for trial. The petition contained a number of allegations of corrupt practices, and it is admitted that when presenting it before the Election Commission no affidavit in support of these allegations was filed with it.3. In his written statement and also by a separate application, the first respondent raised a preliminary objection to the maintainability of theelection petition contending ...
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Reported in : 2000(1)AWC750
ORDERBinod Kumar Roy and Lakshmi Bihari, JJ.1. These two writ petitions, the second one having been connected with the first one vide order dated 25.11.1999, were listed before our Bench for the first time on 17.1.2000 in which cross prayers have been made. They have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order. It may be mentioned that on an application filed by the petitioners of the first petition, before Hon'ble the Chief Justice, His Lordship vide his administrative order dated 11.1.2000 directed to place it before a Bench presided over by one of us. (Binod Kumar Roy, J.). 2. Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 44906 of 1999 has been filed by 5 Advocates of the Collectorate Bar, Etawah, for commanding the respondents by issuance of a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus not to give effect to and to quash (i) the Notification dated September 18, 1997 (as contained in Annexure-1 to the writ petition) and(ii) the letter dated 22.7.1999 of th...
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Reported in : 2006(3)AWC2829
Amitava Lala, J.1. This case is made out basically for conversion of leasehold 'nazul' land to freehold land along with various other reliefs. Therefore, let us first of all know what is 'nazul'?' 'Nazul' means any land or building which, being the property of Government is not administered as a State property under the control of the Land Reforms Commissioner or the Forest or the irrigation Department, or is not under the control of the Military, Postal, Telegraph, Railway or other purely Central Government Department. It means properties i.e., land or buildings in or near towns or villages which have escheated or lapsed to the Government. In further, in absence of appropriate heir, the appropriate State or the Government of India in an appropriate case became the owner of the land. Article 296 of the Constitution of India speaks about the property accruing by escheat or lapse or as an bona vacantia for want of a rightful owner.2. Originally the writ petition was filed by the petition...
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Dilip Gupta, J.1. Five candidates, who had appeared at the U.P. Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the U.P.P.G.M.E.E.-2010) for admission to the State Quota Seats of Post Graduate MD/MS/MDS/PG Diploma Course in various State Medical Colleges and Medical/Dental Faculty of C.S.M. Medical University, Lucknow, have filed this petition for quashing the order dated 6th April, 2010 issued by the Principal Secretary, U.P. Government and for a direction upon the respondents not to permit the candidates belonging to reserved categories, who have secured less than 40% marks at the Entrance Examination, to participate in the counselling scheduled to commence from 11th April, 2010. A further direction has been sought that the respondents should also not admit any student under the reserved categories who has obtained less than 40% marks at the Entrance Examination.2. The State Government, by the order dated 30th October, 2009 authorised the CSM Medical Unive...
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Reported in : AIR1930All225
1. One Basdeonand Gir obtained leave to appeal to the Privy Council and on the due date deposited a sum of Rs. 4,000 as security for costs and a further sum for printing charges.2. On 2nd November 1927 Mr. Newal Kishore, who was the legal practitioner for Shankernand Gir the respondent to the Privy Council appeal, drafted an application to the Court of the Subordinate Judge at Allahabad in which he prayed that the cash certificates for Rs. 4,000-12-0 and a sum of Rs. 798-11-0 for printing charges, which had been paid into the High Court by the appellant, might be attached:and the amount of the decree may be so far as possible satisfied by attachment thereof.3. The application came before Sudeshar Maitra on 4th February 1928. His order was a short one and may be given in full.The items objected to relate to the printing charges and security furnished by the defendant objector in connexion with his appeal to His Majesty in Council. The decree-holder is anxious to lay his hands on these i...
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Reported in : AIR1933All690; 145Ind.Cas.481
Sulaiman, C.J.1. This is an appeal by 27 accused persons in what is known as the Meerut Conspiracy case. The trial has become somewhat notorious on account of its unprecedented duration. All the accused persons, except Hutchinson, were arrested in March 1929, (Hutchinson was arrested in June of the same year) and have all this time, except for the period during which some of them were released on bail, been detained in jail. The trial commenced in the Court of the Committing Magistrate on a complaint filed on 15th March 1929, and on a supplementary complaint against Hutchinson on 11th June 1929.2. The entire proceedings have now lasted for nearly four years and a half. This is accounted for as follows: (1) The preliminary proceedings before the Magistrate took over seven months, resulting in the commitment of the accused to the Court of Session on 14th January 1930; (2) in the Sessions Court the prosecution evidence took over 13 months; (3) the recording of the statements of the accuse...
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Reported in : AIR1950All11
Wali Ullah Ag., C.J.1. This is an application Under Section 491, Criminal P. C. The applicant, Sir Gulab Singh, is the ex-Maharaja, Rewa State. The Rewa State acceded to the Indian Union in August 1947. On 20th May 1948, the Governor-General passed an order addressed to the Superintendent of Police, Dehra Dun. It is an order passed under the provisions of the Bengal State Prisoners Regulation, 1818, as adapted by the Bengal State Prisoners Regulation (Adaptation) Order, 1947, promulgated on 26th August 1947, and directs that Sir Gulab Singh, the applicant, shall be placed under personal restraint at No. 10, Dolialwala, Dehra Dun, and be dealt with in accordance with the orders of the Government and the provisions of the Bengal State Prisoners Regulations, 1818. In pursuance of this order--the warrant of commitment--the applicant is being kept in personal restraint at Dehra Dun. By means of this application, it is prayed that the applicant may be set at liberty inasmuch as his detention...
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Reported in : AIR1951All257
Malik, C.J.1. These applications have been filed on behalf of certain persons who own motor buses and carry passengers for hire on various routes in Uttar Pradesh. The applicants want appropriate relief under Article 226 of the Constitution. The applications can be grouped according to the routes over which the transport buses of the various bus-owners or transport companies were running.2. Civil Misc. Cases Nos. 4 to 7, 71 to 98 and 133 to 140 of 1950 relate to the route Khurja-Bulandshahr-Delhi. The applicants in these cases are represented by Mr. Gopal Swarup Pathak. Civil Misc. Cases Nos. 8 to 70 of 1950 relate to Meerut-Delhi route and the applicants in these cases are also represented by Mr. Pathak.3. Civil Misc. Cases Nos. 99, 100, 104 to 116 of 1950 relate to Garhmukteshwar-Hapur-Delhi route and the applicants in these cases are represented by Shri Alladi Krishnaswami and Mr. S.B. L. Gour.4. Civil Misc. Cases Nos. 118, 119 and 120 of 1950 relate to buses running on the Mathura ...
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Reported in : AIR1951All674
Malik, C.J.1. These are applns. under Article 226 of the Constitution challenging the constitutionality of an Act known as the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition & Land Reforms Act, 1950 (U. P. Act No. I of 1951).2. On 8-8-1946, the United Provinces Legislative Assembly passed the following resolution :'This Assembly accepts the principle of the abolition of the zamindari system in this Province which involves intermediaries between the cultivator & the State & resolves that the rights of such intermediaries should be acquired on payment of equitable compensation & that Govt. should appoint a Committee to prepare a scheme for this purpose.' 3. A Committee was appointed to give effect to the resolution & to prepare the necessary scheme. It made its report in July 1948. A Bill was introduced in the United Provinces Legislative Assembly on 7-7-1949. After some amendment it was passed by the State Legislature on 16-1-1951, & it received the assent of the President on 24-1-1951. 4. Although ...
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