Court : Orissa
Decided on : Apr-24-1961
Reported in : AIR1962Ori149
Narasimham, C.J.1. This is an appeal under the Orissa High Court Order against the judgment of a single Judge of this Court (Hon'ble Misra, J.) dismissing an appeal filed by the appellant against the concurrent decisions of the two lower courts decreeing the respondents' suit for eviction and recovery of arrears of rents and damages. The respondents are admittedly the landlords of a house situated in Berhampur town and the defendant appellant was his tenant. This suit was brought for ejectment and other consequential reliefs on the ground that a valid notice to quit had been Issued.2. Two main contentions were raised by the appellant against the suit for ejectment :i. The notice to quit was not valid; and ii. In any case, in view of the coming into force of the Orissa House Rent Control Act 1938 (Orissa Act 31 of 1958) the Civil Court had no jurisdiction to pass a decree for eviction. On both these points the learned Single Judge held against the appellant but granted him leave to app...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Orissa
Decided on : Nov-14-1961
Reported in : [1962]13STC412(Orissa)
R.L. Narasimham, C.J.1. The following question has been referred to this Court under Section 24(3) of the Orissa Sales Tax Act, by the Member, Sales Tax Tribunal, Orissa, in pursuance of a direction given by this Court under Section 24(2) of that Act:-Whether in the facts and circumstances of this case, the Tribunal is right in holding that the appellant was not liable to pay tax on sales of goods supplied by the Textile Marketing Organization.2. The Government Haridloom Textile Marketing Organization is a concern run on a commercial basis by the Government of Orissa, with its headquarters at Cuttack. Its business is to sell handloom products produced at various centres in Orissa. The opposite party K.C. Mohapatra (hereinafter referred to as the assessee) is the proprietor of a shop known as Lakshmi House near Lion's Gate in Puri town. He carried on his own independent business of selling various kinds of textile goods and he was registered as a 'dealer' and used to pay sales tax in re...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Orissa
Decided on : Nov-20-1961
Reported in : AIR1962Ori202
ORDERS. Barman, J. 1. Sri Shanti Prasad Jain, an industrialist and financier,--who until lately was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kalinga Tubes Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Company), is the petitioner in the complaint herein under Sections 397, 398, 402 and 403 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956 on the ground of alleged continuing and continuous process of oppression to some part of the members of the Company (including the petitioner) and mis-management in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Company, arising out of group factions in the directorate of the Company, where the petitioner's rival groups are alleged to have acted with the ulterior motive of gaining voting power to obtain control of the Company for the said rival groups and their nominees to the exclusion of the petitioner, his group and his nominees, in the circumstances hereinafter stated. 2. The petitioner represents what is known as the Jain Group in the Company Respondent No. 1 is the Company; r...
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