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Feb 21 1934 (PC)

AmIn Shariff Vs. Emperor

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1934Cal580,150Ind.Cas.561

..... however has now been altered to some extent by reason of the provisions of the opium (bengal amendment) act, 1933-bengal act 5 of 1933, and i think we may take it that by virtue of those provisions an officer acting under the opium act is now very much in the same position as an ordinary excise officer. ..... conflict and, following as it closely does the wording of the question which was referred in the bombay case above-mentioned, is some what inapposite, because it is clear from a comparison of, the relevant provisions of the opium act (1 of 1878), which is the act to be considered in this connexion, and of the bengal excise act (5 of 1909), the powers of an excise officer while investigating into offences under the said two acts respectively are not quite the same; the opium (bengal) amendment act (5 b. c. ..... and section 6 of the act, which conferred magisterial powers upon certain supe rior officers of the police says:they shall be so invested only so far as may be necessary for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crime, and the detection, apprehension and detention of offenders in order to their being brought before a ..... air 1932 cal 122, and so accordingly held that an excise sub-inspector is not a police officer within the meaning of section 25, evidence act.43 ..... . king-emperor air 1932 pat 298, that an excise officer is not a ..... emperor air 1932 pat ..... emperor air 1932 pat 298 where the learned judge says:the ..... emperor air 1932 pat 298, courtney-terrel ..... air 1932 pat .....

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Jul 10 1953 (HC)

Commr. of Wakfs and anr. Vs. Mohammad Moshin

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1954Cal463

..... case here.here the amendment did not affect the nature or scope of the suit but preserved these intact. ..... the contrary, abdur rahim is of the opinion that a guardian under the muhammadan law of a minor is not entitled to bind the ward by any act which is absolutely injurious to the latter's interest and so he cannot make a gift or a wakf of the minor's property: abdur rahim's muhammadan ..... powers of a legal guardian to transfer the ward's properties is their preservation and perhaps augmentation: see -- 'imambundi v. ..... that dedicating a property to wakf is preserving it or augmenting it, for the owner. ..... it was said that the amendment took away a right vested in the appellants at the date of the amendment, namely, a right to have the suit dismissed as ..... section 71 of the bengal wakf act gives the commissioner the right to intervene in any suit regarding a wakf and toconduct the suit or the defence on ..... , likewise, though the minor cannot create a wakf, for the muhammadan law prohibits creation of a wakf by a minor and under the transfer of property act a minor cannot transfer property, his guardian can do so with the court's sanction. ..... be held in this case that the order of 9-7-1932 permitting hossain ali to create the wakf is a ..... on 9-7-1932 hossain ali as such guardian obtained an order from that court under section 29 of that act permitting him to create a wakf alal ..... pursuant to that permission, on 30-10-1932 hossain ali actually executed a deed of wakf whereby he also made a wakf of some .....

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Mar 21 1967 (HC)

Rampada Majhi Vs. Nagendranath Chakravarty

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : 1968CriLJ557

..... the power to give consent in writing under the prevention of food adulteration act vested in the chairman as distinct from the commissioners not under the prevention of food adulteration act but under section 51 of the bengal municipal act and so even without the bengal municipal (second amendment) act, 1954 the administrator has the power to give this consent in writing.18. ..... the bengal municipal (second amendment) act, 1954 amended section 551 and under the amended section the administrator was empowered to exercise all the powers and duties which could be exercised and performed by the chairman and by the commissioners under the provisions of the bengal municipal act or any other act or any ordinance or any regulation, or any rule, by-law, order, notification or subsidiary legislation made under the provisions of the bengal municipal act or such other act or such ordinance or such regulation. ..... it may however be pointed out that the corresponding section 388 of the bihar municipal act is the same as section 554 of the bengal municipal act of 1932 before amendment of 1954. ..... one sample was made over to the accused, another was bent to the public analyst while the third was preserved in the municipal office. .....

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May 04 1984 (HC)

Bachhraj Baid and anr. Vs. Commercial Tax Officer and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : [1985]58STC370(Cal)

..... been held that in view of the fact that by section 2(b) of the bengal finance (sales tax) (west bengal amendment) act, 1950 'firm' has been excluded from the definition of the word 'dealer' in section 2(c) of the bengal act, a firm cannot be treated as a separate unit for purposes of assessment of sales tax under the act. ..... inheritance or succession out of the purview of the said section 17 as in view of section 16 of the said bengal act read with section 10(2) of the same, every registered dealer, which means any person who carries on the business of selling goods in west bengal and includes the government and is registered under the said bengal act, who is required to furnish returns, is also required, within the prescribed time, to inform the authorities, ..... of lease and the transferee or the lessee carries on such business, either in its old name or in some other name, the transferee or the lessee shall for all the purposes of this act (except for liabilities under this act already discharged by such dealer) be deemed to be and to have always been registered (in the case of a lease for so long as the lease subsists) as if the registration certificate ..... same do not substitute the liability of the transferee for that of the transferor-dealer and the said liability is an additional one imposed upon the transferee, preserving the liability of the dealer, which section 4 brings into existence ..... partnership firm registered under the indian partnership act, 1932 and which at the material time .....

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Sep 11 1962 (SC)

Jyotish Thakur and ors. Vs. Tarakant Jha and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1963SC605; [1963]Supp1SCR13

..... statutory provisions as regards merger were made in the transfer of property act in 1882 and in the bengal tenancy act in 1885 - which was later extended to bihar. ..... his recommendation was accepted by the government and the result was the amendment of the prohibition of transfer in regulation iii of 1872. ..... it has also been held that a presumption will exist against merger where it can be shown that it is either the duty or the interest of the person acquiring the outstanding estate that the two estates should be preserved as separate interests. ..... it appeared that in the revision survey and settlement in 1932 the lands were recorded as 'appertaining to mahal ghatwali' belonging to maharaj rai ghatwal, as his bakasht. ..... as a result of the amendment section 27 stands thus :-'27. ..... the result of the statutory provisions in the judicature act of 1873 and later of the law of property in 1925 has been that merger will be held to have taken place only where, there would be a merger both at common law and in equity. ..... 25 of the regulations that this 1932 entry prevailed. .....

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Feb 11 1987 (SC)

Shri Sachidanand Pandey and anr. Vs. the State of West Bengal and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1987SC1109; (1987)1CompLJ211(SC); JT1987(1)SC425; 1987(1)SCALE311; (1987)2SCC295; [1987]2SCR223; 1987(1)LC641(SC)

..... singhvi was that whatever might have been the terms of the grant in favour of the zoological garden, the bengal parks act, 1904, vested the land in favour of the zoological garden and there was no way by which the government could divest the zoological garden of the land except by a procedure known to the law such as acquisition or ..... section 4 enables the government to make rules for the management, and preservation of any park, and for regulating the use thereof by the public ..... the government or the board may have the power the amend these orders and instructions, but nonetheless they must be obeyed so long as they are in force and are ..... committee came to learn that a big hotel was proposed to be constructed on the plot of land where fodder for elephant are being grown to meet at least a portion of the elephants food. ..... would be stretching credibility to suggest that it is necessary to grow fodder in the begumbari land to feed the elephants in the zoo. ..... fodder for elephants should not again be considered to be ..... available facilities were mentioned as staff quarters, hospital for animals, burial ground for animals, fodder for elephants etc. ..... use to which the land was evidently put at the time was as a dumping ground for refuse and rubbish and for growing fodder for elephants. ..... was stated: 'from the property of the zoological gardens on the belvedere road it is possible to carve out about four acres of land currently used for dumping garbage and also for growing grass for the elephants. .....

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Apr 23 1958 (SC)

Mohd. Hanif Quareshi and ors. Vs. the State of Bihar

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1958SC731; [1959]1SCR629

..... and berar animal preservation act, 1949, as it originally stood, the slaughter of all categories of animals mentioned in the original schedule were only controlled by the requirement of a certificate from the appropriate authority before the actual slaughter, by the amending act xxiii of 1951, a total ban was imposed on the slaughter of 'cows' which was then defined as including only a female calf of a cow and the slaughter of all other ..... categories of animals coming within the original schedule was controlled and finally after the amending act x of 1956, there is now a total ban on the slaughter of 'cows' which by the new definition includes a male or female calf of a cow, bull, bullock or heifer so that the male ..... definitions are to be noted : '(a) 'animal means - (i) bull, bullock, cow, heifer, buffalo, calf, sheep, goat and any other ruminating animal; (ii) poultry; and (iii) elephant, horse, camel, ass, mule, dog, swine and such other domesticated animals as may be specified in this behalf by the state government by notification in the official gazette; (b)................................................................ ..... thus the assam cattle protection act, 1950, the bombay animal preservation act, 1948, the west bengal animal slaughter control act, 1950, the hyderabad slaughter of animal act, 1950, the travancore-cochin notification permit slaughter ..... bengal .....

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Sep 03 2007 (HC)

Cottage Industries Exposition Ltd. and anr. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) a ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 2007(122)ECC7; 2007(148)LC7(Delhi); 2009(235)ELT60(Del)

..... as pointed out hereinbefore, the parliament has enacted the amending acts of 1986, 1991 and 2003 not only for the purpose of banning a trade in elephant ivory but with a view to create a blockade of the activities of poachers and others so that a complete ..... . as pointed out hereinbefore, the parliament has enacted the amending acts of 1986, 1991 and 2003 not only for the purpose of banning a trade in elephant ivory but with a view to create a blockade of the activities of poachers and others so that a complete ..... by reason of the amending acts, the parliament was anxious to plug the loop-holes and impose a ban on trade in ivory so that while purporting to trade in imported ivory and carvings there from, poaching of indian elephants and resultant illegal trade by extracting their tusks may not continue.the petitioner has relied upon the judgment of the madras high court in kay pee industrial chemical's ..... used and ivory imported into india and an article made there from).section 2(31) - trophytrophy means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has been kept or preserved by any means, whether artificial or natural, and includes,(a) rugs, skins, and specimens of such animals mounted in whole or in part through a process of taxidermy, and (b) antler, bone carapace, shell, horn, ..... pradesh, bihar, gujarat, haryana, himachal pradesh, madhya pradesh, manipur, punjab, rajasthan, uttar pradesh and west bengal have passed such resolutions. 4. .....

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Mar 18 1985 (HC)

Srish Chandra Choudhury Vs. State of Tripura and ors.

Court : Guwahati

..... tribe in the state of tripura in the constitution (scheduled tribes) (union territories) order 1951, the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes list (modification) order, 1956 and in the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes order (amendment) act, 1976 and that the laskar community has all along been recognised by the tripura, tripuri, tippera community as a part and parcel of their community. ..... the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes orders (amendment) act, 1976 amended the entry by removing the word 'or' and putting a comma instead, the entry now reading; tripura, tripuri, tippera.4. ..... the same was the position when after the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes orders (amendment) act, 1956 changed the entry 15 to tripura or tripuri, tippera. ..... according to him, some traditions of the origin of the tripura house, which were of bodo origin unquestionably, are preserved in the most, valuable assamese tripura buranji, written by ratna kandali and arjun das in 1646 saka = 1724 a.d. ..... item 40 and some other terms of the schedule were made applicable to the state of west bengal except the purulia district and the territories transferred from purnea district of bihar.the question was whether the appellant was a member of the scheduled caste specified in this item. ..... came under the control of the east india company, more than one-fifth of the present area was under the immediate rule of the raja of hill tipperah, who merely paid a tribute of ivory and elephants'. .....

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Apr 06 1986 (SC)

Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Limited and anr. Vs. Brojo ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1986SC1571; (1986)3CompLJ1(SC); 1986LabIC1312; (1986)IILLJ171SC; 1986(1)SCALE799; (1986)3SCC156; [1986]2SCR278; 1986(2)SLJ320(SC)

..... , when any person who is or was inter alia public servant not removable from his office save by or with the sanction of the government is accused of any offence alleged to have been committed by him while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duty, no court is to take cognizance of such offence except with the previous sanction in the case of a person who is employed or, as the case may be, was at ..... clause (58) of section 3 of the general clauses act defines the term 'state' as follows: (58) 'state' - (a) as respects any period before the commencement of the constitution (seventh amendment) act, 1956, shall mean a part a state, a part b state or a part c state, and (b) as respects any period after such commencement, shall mean a state specified in the first schedule to the ..... includes a company which is a subsidiary of a government company as thus defined.as all the shares of the corporation are held by different governments, namely, the government of india and the governments of west bengal and assam, the corporation is not only a government company as defined by the said section 617 but is a company wholly owned by the central government and two state governments. 3. ..... now the function of the state to secure 'social, economic and political justice', to preserve 'liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship', and to ensure 'equality ..... parliament in the united kingdom after 1932 does not show that this recommendation ..... report submitted in 1932 (cmd. ..... 1932 .....

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