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Judgment and Order Katakey, J. 1. The State of Assam, represented by the Commissioner and Secretary, Home Department, as well as the Superintendent of Police, Barpeta, have filed the Review Petition No.22/2010 seeking review of the judgment and order dated 01.02.2010 passed by a Division Bench of this Court in Writ Appeal No.238/2008 (Moslem Mondal and ors. Vs. Union of India and ors. reported in 2010(2) GLT 1), on the grounds set forth in the review petition. On 28.04.2010 when the review petition was taken up for consideration by a Division Bench, a prayer was made by the learned counsel appearing for the appellants in WA No.238/2008 to hear all the learned counsel appearing for the parties in the appeal including amicus curiae assisting the Court and to hear the review petition along with other matters, which was accepted by the Court. Vide order dated 17.05.2010, while issuing notice in the review petition, the aforesaid Division Bench consisting of the Honble the then Chief Justic...
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Saha, J. 1. The instant criminal appeal is filed by the appellant, challenging the judgment dated 29-6-2005 passed by learned Addl. Session Judge, North Tripura, Dharmanagar in Case No. ST 57 (NT/D) of 2004 and the order of sentence dated 30-6-2005 in the aforesaid Sessions Trial case wherein after considering the evidence on record the appellant was convicted under S.302, I.P.C. and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-, i.e. to make payment of fine to suffer further RI for six months. 2. Heard Mr. S. Chakraborty, learned counsel for the appellant as well as Mr. D. Sarkar, learned Public Prosecutor for the State-respondent. 3. When the appeal was pending a plea of juvenility was taken up by the appellant in a criminal miscellaneous case being No. Crl. Misc. Case No.95/2012, wherein he also prayed for adducing additional evidence to prove his plea of juvenility. This Court vide order dated 5-6-2012 in the aforesaid Crl. M. Application directed the le...
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1. The petitioner No. 1 is a private limited company and owns the two newspapers, namely, “The Sentinel”, an English daily newspaper and “Sentinel”, a Hindi daily newspaper. The petitioner No. 2 is the Manager (F and A) of the petitioner No. 1 company. 2. According to the petitioners, both the above newspapers have wide circulation both within the north eastern region as well as out side the region. Both the newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India and empanelled with the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 3. At the time of filing of the writ petition, “The Sentinel” used to be published simultaneously from Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar and Shillong and has distribution and advertisement offices in various places in India. Since its inception in the year 1983, “The Sentinel” has been drawing the attention of the reading ...
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1. The petitioner No. 1 is a private limited company and owns the two newspapers, namely, The Sentinel, an English daily newspaper and Sentinel, a Hindi daily newspaper. The petitioner No. 2 is the Manager (F and A) of the petitioner No. 1 company. 2. According to the petitioners, both the above newspapers have wide circulation both within the north eastern region as well as out side the region. Both the newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India and empanelled with the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP) under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 3. At the time of filing of the writ petition, The Sentinel used to be published simultaneously from Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar and Shillong and has distribution and advertisement offices in various places in India. Since its inception in the year 1983, The Sentinel has been drawing the attention of the reading public to various issues of public importance and have p...
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1. The petitioner, set the law in motion presenting an application under Section 439 of Cr.P.C., praying for bail of accused-persons, namely, (1) Sri Ranju Das, (2) Sri Ranjit Das, (3) Sri Satish Paul, (4) Sri Santu Paul, (5) Sri Nikhi Das, and (6) Sri Bijoy Das, in connection with Kailashahar P.S. Case No.98 of 2011, registered under Sections 341/325/302 read with Section 34 of IPC, pending in the Court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kailashahar. 2. Heard learned counsel, Mr. A. Pal for the petitioners and learned Public Prosecutor, Mr. D. Sarkar, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor, Mr. P. Bhattacharjee as well as learned Special Public Prosecutor, Mr. R.C. Denath for the respondent-State. A serious question of law, involving wide public importance, regarding applicability of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Tripura 8th Amendment) Act, 2009 (herein referred to as the Amendment Act), in the facts and circumstances of this case, has been raised, calling for a decisi...
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1. The instant writ petition is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to immediately hold elections for Municipal Councils and Town Councils throughout Nagaland with one-third of the seats reserved for women in accordance with Article 243T(3) of the Constitution of India and Section 23A of the Nagaland Municipal (First Amendment) Act, 2006, for short, Amendment Act of 2006. The petitioners have also prayed for a direction to set aside and quash a Cabinet decision dated 16-12-2009 as well as a Notification dated 11-1-2010 issued by Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, whereby, in view of the Government's decision to postpone indefinitely the elections of Municipal Councils and Town Councils due in the month of January/February, 2010, apart from dissolving the Municipal Councils and Town Councils with effect from their respective dates of expiry of tenure, Executive Officers were appointed as Administrators in respect of the dissolved Municipal Councils/Town C...
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1. Heard Mr. Somik Deb, learned counsel, appearing for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. N.C. Pal, learned Government Advocate, appearing for the respondent Nos.1 to 3, and Mr. P.K. Biswas, learned Assistant Solicitor General of India, appearing for respondent No.4. 2. Pursuant to the notification, calling for applications for admission into the MBBS Course in Agartala Government Medical College, the petitioner herein, having obtained more than 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology in the qualifying examination, namely, Higher Secondary (+2 stage), conducted by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education, applied for admission into the MBBS course and as he was qualified, in terms of the Medical Council of India (‘MCI’ for short) regulations, to appear in the combined competitive examination, popularly known, in the State of Tripura, as the Joint Entrance Examination (in short ‘JEE’), he, having been allowed, appeared in the combined competitive examination. The...
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CAV: AMITAVA ROY, J. 1. The instant petition has been registered suo moto on the letter dated 3.7.2011 addressed to the Hon’ble the Chief Justice of this Court by Smti. Minna Kabir, a Child Rights Activist, essentially for expediting the proceedings before the Juvenile Justice Board, Morigaon(hereafter referred to also as the “Board”) initiated on an application filed on behalf of Ramdeo Chauhan @ Rajnath Chouhan seeking his release in terms of the provisions of the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (for short, hereinafter referred to as the “Act”) ( as amended), read with the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007 ( for short, hereafter referred to as the “Rules”), on a redetermination of his age in accordance with Rule 12 of the Rules. The application before the Board has been registered as petition No.3164/2010 on 22.12.2010. 2. We have heard Mr MK Das, Advocate assisted by Ms Swaraswati J...
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CAV: AMITAVA ROY, J. 1. The instant petition has been registered suo moto on the letter dated 3.7.2011 addressed to the Honble the Chief Justice of this Court by Smti. Minna Kabir, a Child Rights Activist, essentially for expediting the proceedings before the Juvenile Justice Board, Morigaon(hereafter referred to also as the Board) initiated on an application filed on behalf of Ramdeo Chauhan @ Rajnath Chouhan seeking his release in terms of the provisions of the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (for short, hereinafter referred to as the Act) ( as amended), read with the Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007 ( for short, hereafter referred to as the Rules), on a redetermination of his age in accordance with Rule 12 of the Rules. The application before the Board has been registered as petition No.3164/2010 on 22.12.2010. 2. We have heard Mr MK Das, Advocate assisted by Ms Swaraswati Johari, Advocate representing Human Rights Law Net...
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1. Challenge in this writ petition is made to the order dated 15.03.2008 whereby and whereunder the Labour Commissioner and Certifying Officer under the Industrial Employment Standing Orders Act, 1946 (for short 'the Act') raised the superannuation age of the workers of the company to 58 years with effect from 01.01.2008 holding that the company has not opposed to the amendment proposal wherein the Trade Union workers have moved a proposal to the Certifying Officer of Standing Order of Assam for amending the age of superannuation from 55 years to 58 years. 2. In order to determine the controversy raised in the instant writ petition a brief facts of the case is summarized hereinbelow- The petitioner herein is the Management of M/s Steelsworth Pvt. Ltd. Tinsukia Makum Road, Tinsukia a Private Ltd. Company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 having its registered office at Kolkata. The company deals with manufacturing and fabrication of steel items of various descriptions including m...
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