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Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh and anr. Vs. the State of Vindhya Pradesh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC394; 1954CriLJ1480; [1953]4SCR1188

..... was in substance reduced to the powers of the provincial legislature within the framework of the constitution of india as it then was. section 6, sub-section (1), of the indian independence act and section 99(2) as amended are relied on to show that the provincial legislature has no power to make extra-territorial laws. it is ..... continued under the old procedure subsequent to 16th april, 1950, there were inevitable discrimination and necessary prejudice. this argument, however, overlooks the fact that the repealing section 4 of act no. xxx of 1950 contained a saving clause providing that 'the repeal shall not affect (a) the previous operation of any such law, or (b) ..... as bundelkhand and baghhelkand states of which the state of rewa was apparently the largest unit. immediately after the passing of the indian independence act of 1947 which by virtue of section 7 thereof resulted in the lapse of the suzerainty of the british government in india, these various states executed in favor of the .....

K.C. Gajapati Narayan Deo and ors. Vs. the State of Orissa

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC375; 20(1954)CLT1(SC); [1954]1SCR1

..... the case of (the state of bihar v. maharaja kameshwar singh and others [1955] s.c.r. 889. which held two provisions of the bihar land reforms act, namely, sections 4(b) and 23(f) to be unconstitutional on the ground, among others, that these provisions constituted a fraud on the constitution. the fact that the provisions in ..... principle enunciated by the majority of this court in the bihar case referred to above. it is difficult to appreciate this argument of the learned counsel. section 37 of the act contains the legislative provision regarding the form and the manner in which the compensation for acquired properties is to be given and as such it comes ..... embodying the terms of surrender is executed. the consequences of vesting either by issue of notification or as a result of surrender are described in detail in section 5 of the act. it would be sufficient for our present purpose to state that the primary consequence is that all lands comprised in the estate including communal lands, non .....

Shrinivas Pannalal Chokhani Vs. the State of Madhya Pradesh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1954SC23

..... confirming the conviction and sentence passed upon the appellant by the court of the magistrate first class, akola.2. the appellant was charged:(i) under section 7, essential supplies (temporary powers) act 24 of 1946, read with clause 2(1)(a), central provinces and berar food-grains export restriction order 1943 for exporting 1405 bags of un-cleaned ..... and the broker krishna rao shankarrao, charging them with the several offences mentioned above.5. under section 15, essential supplies (temporary powers) act 1946, where any person is prosecuted for contravening any order made under section 3 which prohibits him from doing an act without a permit, the burden of proving that he has such a permit shall be on him ..... had no permit to export uncleaned tur dal and was not the holder of permit no. 10315 which moreover was exhausted before that day; (ii) under section 420, penal code for cheating the railway authorities and thus obtaining seven wagons to load 1405 bags to kalyan; and (iii) under .....

Dalehite Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... to the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit syllabus in this action against the united states under the tort claims act to recover damages for a death resulting from the disastrous explosion at texas city, tex., of ammonium nitrate fertilizer produced at the instance, according to the specifications, and under the control ..... page 346 u. s. 28 business, [ footnote 17 ] it was not contemplated that the government should be subject to liability arising from acts of a governmental nature or function. [ footnote 18 ] section 2680(a) draws this distinction. uppermost in the collective mind of congress were the ordinary common law torts. [ footnote 19 ] of these, ..... negligence was the proximate cause of such fires and explosions and injuries of which plaintiffs complain." [ footnote 2/11 ] 28 u.s.c. 2680: "the provisions of this chapter and section 1346(b) of this title shall not apply to --" "(a) any claim based upon an act or omission of an employee of the government, exercising .....

Sohan Pathak and Sons Vs. Commissioner of Income-tax, U.P.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC456; [1953]24ITR395(SC); [1954]1SCR158

..... liable to be taxed as a hindu undivided family in respect of that business. 10. but, argues the learned attorney-general, that result cannot follow by reason of section 10-a of the act which runs as follows : 10-a. transactions designed to avoid or reduce liability to excess profits tax. - (1) where the excess profits tax officer is of ..... the old family business in banaras brocade having been actually closed down, the officer had no power in assessing the profits of that business to make adjustments under section 10-a of the act by adding the profits made by the two firms after july 17, 1943. and lastly, and alternatively, there was undoubtedly a change in the persons carrying ..... and the creation of the two partnerships was to avoid or reduce the liability of the appellants to excess profits tax, and he made adjustments under section 10-a of the act by adding to the profits made by the appellants as a joint hindu family till the date of the partition the profits made by the two firms .....

Sodhi Shamsher Singh and ors. Vs. the State of Pepsu and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1954SC276; (1954)IMLJ137(SC)

..... more occasions than one, that the propriety or reasonableness of the satisfaction of the central or the state government upon which an order for detention under section 3, preventive detention act is based, cannot be raised in this court and we cannot be invited to undertake an investigation into sufficiency of the matters upon which such satisfaction ..... were arrested on 1-9-1953 under orders of the chief secretary to the pepsu government issued in the name of the president of india, under section 3(1), preventive detention act, 1950 and after arrest they were taken to the central jail, patiala where they are lodged since then. on the 5th of september following, the ..... that the publication or distribution of these pamphlets could not have any rational connection with the maintenance of law and order in the state or prevention of acts leading to disorder or disturbance of public tranquillity. it is true that the pamphlets are couched in the most filthy and abusive language and amount to a .....

Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay City Vs. the Century Spinning and M ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC501; (1954)56BOMLR742; [1953]23CompCas462(SC); [1953]24ITR499(SC); [1954]1SCR203

..... any purpose on the crucial date did not constitute reserves within the meaning of schedule ii, rule 2(1). 13. reference was made to sections 131(a) and 132 of the indian companies act. section 131(a) enjoins upon the directors to attach to every balance-sheet a report with respect to the state of company's affairs and the ..... set aside by the income-tax appellate tribunal. thereupon the tribunal formulated the two questions aforementioned for reference to the high court under section 66(1) of the act, read with section 19 of the business profits tax act of 1947. as already stated the high court decided the first question in favour of the assessee and the second in favour ..... on business during the boom years of the war. it was revived, as it were, after a year in the shape of the present act, though in a modified form. section 4 which is the charging section, so far as it is material for our purposes, permits the levying on the amount of the 'taxable profits' during any 'chargeable accounting .....

Deputy Commr., Hardoi, in Charge Court of Wards, Bharawan Estate Vs. R ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC521; 1954(2)BLJR53

..... maintainable. it seems to us that in making these observations the learned judges did not clearly bear in mind the distinctions between the provisions of sections 11 and 14 of the act. section 14 lays down a definite procedure so far as the enquiry into the claims of creditors is concerned. each creditor has to establish his claim ..... respondents in the appeal. subsequently the appellant made an application for impleading them as respondents in the appeal and prayed that he be given the benefit of section 5, limitation act. this application was rejected, and eventually the appeal was dismissed on the ground that it was defective and could not be entertained in the absence of ..... to the court of the special judge, first grade, shahjahanpur. the landlords on 26-8-1938 submitted a written statement to the special judge under section 8 of the act and therein stated 'inter alia' that they had a proprietary interest to the extent of ten annas share in 52 items of taluqdari villages which formed .....

Sir Kikabhai Premchand Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax (Central), Bomba ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1953SC509; (1954)56BOMLR745; (1953)IIMLJ816(SC); [1954]1SCR219

..... also the income-tax appellate tribunal rejected this contention of the assessee and the income-tax appellate tribunal submitted at the instance of the assessee a case under section 66(1) of the act referring the following two questions for the decision of the high court :- '(1) whether in the circumstances of the case any income arose to the ..... this appeal by special leave from a judgment of the high court of judicature at bombay on a reference by the income-tax appellate tribunal under section 66(1) of the indian income-tax act (xi of 1922) raises an interesting question as to the valuation of an asset withdrawn from the stock-in-trade of a running business. 22 ..... . there is no suggestion in this case that the bars and shares were withdrawn from the business otherwise than in good faith. 5. according to the appellant, the act of withdrawal resulted in neither income nor profit nor gain either to himself or to his business, nor was it a business transaction, accordingly it was not taxable. 6 .....

Commissioner of Income-tax Vs. Kikabhai Premchand

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : [1953]24ITR506(SC)

..... the income-tax appellate tribunal rejected this contention of the assessee and the income-tax appellate tribunal submitted at the instance of the assessee a case under section 66 (i) of the act referring the following two questions for the decision of the high court :-' (i) wether in the circumstances of the case any income arose to the ..... this appeal by special leave from a judgment of the high court of judicature at bombay on a reference by the income-tax appellate tribunal under section 66 (i) of the indian income-tax act (xi of 1922) raises an interesting question as to the valuation of an asset withdrawn from the stock-in-trade of a running business.23 ..... is the purpose method for computing the income?'25. the high court answered both the question in the affirmative.26. it was not disputed before the income-tax act appellate tribunal that the shares transferred were the stock-in-trade of the business. as regards the silver bars the tribunal found that the assessee had been making .....