Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Dec-22-1989
Reported in : AIR1990SC1480; (1990)1CompLJ125(SC); JT1989(4)SC582; 1991(2)SCALE841; (1990)1SCC613; [1989]Supp2SCR597
..... strength for the foreign multinationals, the nature of injuries and damages, and the limited but significant right of participation of the victims as contemplated by section 4 of the act, the act cannot be condemned as unreasonable.100. in this connection, the concept of 'parens patriae' in jurisprudence may be examined. it was contended by ..... ago, this country was shaken to its core by a national catastrophe, second in magnitude and disastrous effects only to the havoc wrought by the atomic explosions in hiroshima and nagasaki. multitudes of illiterate and poverty-stricken people in and around bhopal suffered damage to life and limb due to the escape of ..... right to institute proceedings within or outside india along with right to institute any suit or other proceedings or to enter into compromise. sub-section 1 of section 3 of the act, therefore, substitutes the central government in place of the victims. the victims, or their heirs and legal representatives, get their rights substituted in .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Dec-22-1989
Reported in : AIR1990SC820; 1989(2)SCALE1483; (1990)3SCC87; [1989]Supp2SCR731; [1990]77STC82(SC); 1990(1)LC482(SC)
..... which was a decision of a bench of this court consisting of 7 learned judges, and was concerned with the rajasthan motor vehicles taxation act, 1951. sub-section (1) of section 4 of that act provided that no motor vehicle shall be used in any public place or kept for use in rajasthan unless the owner thereof had paid, in ..... = 2% surcharge on electronic goods sold within the state irrespective of their manufacture. the state govt. in pursuance of the powers conferred on it under section 5 of the act issued the notification dt. 11-12-86 stating that the rate of sales tax payable by an electronic manufacturing unit existing in punjab in cases of electronic goods ..... motor vehicles for the period from april 1, 1951 to march 31, 1954. the appellants challenged the legality of the demand on the grounds that section 4-of the act read with the schedules constituted a direct and immediate restriction on the movement of trade and commerce with and within rajasthan inasmuch as motor vehicles which .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Dec-22-1989
Reported in : 1990(1)SCALE49; (1990)2SCC22; [1989]Supp2SCR759
..... form the sole base to establish that the plaintiffs family were the migrants from mathura in u.p. section 37 of the evidence act, 1872 postulates that any statement made in a government gazette of a public nature is a relevant fact. section 57(13) declares that on all matters of public history, the court may resort for its aid ..... to appropriate books or documents of reference, and section 81 draws a presumption as to genuineness of gazettes coming from ..... holder is a bandhu entitled to succession of the estate of the deceased. while considering the question exhaustively of the texts of hindu law on this topic including section vi of colebrooke's referred to above of the order of succession by bandhus, it was held by the judicial committee that if for the determination of the .....
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