Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR2000SC3751; (2001)1GLR434; 2000(7)SCALE34; (2000)10SCC664; [2000]Supp4SCR94
..... to rajasthan will also help in checking the advancement of the thar desert. human habitation will increase there which, in turn, will help in protecting the so far porous border with pakistan.233. while considering gujarat's demand for water, the government had reports that with the construction of a high dam on the river narmada, water could not ..... of rajasthan to utilise the same for irrigation and drinking purposes in the arid and drought-prone areas of jalore and barmer districts of rajasthan situated on the international border with pakistan, which have no other available source of water.244. water is the basic need for the survival of human beings and is part of right of ..... and article 21 of the constitution of india. water in the rivers of india has great potentiality to change the miserable condition of the arid, drought-prone and border areas of india.246. the availability of drinking water will benefit about 1.91 lac of people residing in 124 villages in arid and drought-prone .....
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Reported in : AIR1992SC847; [1992]73CompCas762(SC); JT1992(1)SC463; 1992(1)SCALE264; (1992)2SCC255; [1992]1SCR481
..... , so as to avoid any ambiguity or uncertainty. the right accrues or liability arises exactly as prescribed by the statute. decisions such as keshave nilkanth joglekar v. the commissioner of police, greater bombay [1975] scr 653, and salim v. state of west bengal : [1975]3scr394 , deal with the expression 'forthwith' in the context of preventive detention demanding a liberal or reasonable .....
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Reported in : AIR1997SC645; (1997)3GLR2576; (1997)ILLJ1113SC; 1996(9)SCALE70; (1997)9SCC377; [1996]Supp9SCR579
ORDERK. Ramaswamy, J.1. Leave granted.2. These appeals by special leave arise from the judgment of the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court dated April 28, 1992 made in Appeal No. 146 of 1990 and batch. The facts in appeal arising out of S.L.P. 7417/92, are sufficient to decide the questions of law that have arisen in these appeals. The appellant initially was a statutory authority under international Airport Authority of India Act, 1971 (for short, 'IAAI Act') and on its repeal by the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 was amalgamated with National Airport Authority (for short, the 'NAA') under single nomenclature, namely, IAAI. The IAAI is now reconstituted as a company under Companies Act, 1956.3. The appellants engaged, as contract labour, the respondent union's members, for sweeping, cleaning, dusting and watching of the buildings owned and occupied by the appellant. The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (for short, the 'Act') regulates registration of the...
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Reported in : AIR2000SC498; 2000(1)ALLMR(SC)99; JT1999(9)SC557; 1999(7)SCALE411; (2000)1SCC168; [1999]Supp5SCR229; 2000(3)SLJ101(SC); 2000(1)LC367(SC); (2000)1UPLBEC455
M. Jagannadha Rao, J.1. The cases in this batch raise common issues relating to the identification of 'creamy layer' among the Backward Classes in the State of Kerala and the implementation of the law declared and directions issued in Indira Sawhney v. Union of India : AIR1993SC477 . The State of Kerala took time for implementation of the directions in Indira Sawhney for appointment of a Commission for the purpose of identifying the creamy layer in the State but it failed to appoint a Commission or to proceed with the implementation. Indira Sawhney was decided in 1992. For more than three years the State of Kerala did not implement the judgment. This Court by its order dated 10.7.1995 held (in IAs. 35, 36 filed by the State for extension of time etc.) that the State of Kerala, represented by its Chief Secretary was guilty of contempt but gave a further opportunity to the state to purge the contempt and adjourned the matter to 11.9.1995. It was made clear that if the directions of this ...
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Reported in : AIR1995SC605; JT1994(6)SC632; (1994)6SCC360; [1994]Supp5SCR1
..... rama.' it may be said that 'fundamentalism and pluralism pose the two challenges that people of all religious traditions face; and 'to the fundamentalists, the borders of religious certainty are tightly guarded; to the pluralist, the borders are good fences where one meets the neighbor. to many fundamentalists, secularism, seen as the denial of religious claims, is the enemy; to plu-ralists .....
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Reported in : AIR1994SC268; JT1993(5)SC497; (1993)4SCC441; [1993]Supp2SCR659
ORDERJ.S. Verma, J.(for himself and on behalf of Yogeshwar Dayal, G.N. Ray, Dr. A.S. Anand & S.P. Bharucha, JJ.) :1. By and Order dated October 26,1990 passed in Subhash Sharma and Ors. and Anr. Union of India (1990) 2 S.C.R. 433 and the matters connected therewith, the papers of Writ petition No. 1303 of 1987 - Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association and Anr. v. Union Of India were directed to be placed before the learned Chief Justice of India for constituting a Bench of nine Judges to examine the two question referred therein, namely, the position of the Chief Justice of India with reference to primacy, and justiciability of fixation of Judge strength. That Order was made since the referring Bench was of the opinion, that the correctness of the majority view in S.P. Gupta and Ors. etc. etc. v. Union of India and Ors. etc. etc. : [1982]2SCR365 , required reconsideration by a larger Bench. This is how these questions arise for decision by this Bench.2. The context in which the a...
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Reported in : AIR1992SC2004; 1992CriLJ3655; JT1992(4)SC282; 1992(2)SCALE82; (1992)3SCC615
..... the prosecution. may be the torn clothes were worn once again by the prosecutrix when she and her husband went to lodge the complaint two days later or the police made out such a panchnama. the same can be said about the attachment of the dhoti also. that by itself does not provide strong reason to doubt the prosecution ..... in lodging the complaint. mr. gupta submitted that on account of threats, social compulsions and natural reluctance to make such matters public there is always hesitation in approaching the police where the reputation of a woman is at stake. hence it would not be proper to throw over-board the prosecution's case only on the ground of delay. ..... sperms and 10% of live sperms. on the basis of these findings he concluded that the duration of the rape could be about 24 to 48 hours. after the police completed the investigation it submitted a charge-sheet alleging that the accused had committed offences punishable under sections 452, 376, 342, 323 and 147 of the indian penal code. .....
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Reported in : JT1991(3)SC198; (1992)IILLJ53bSC; 1991(2)SCALE150; (1991)3SCC655; [1991]3SCR189a
..... for the proper functioning of the central government.though we did not make any direct inquiries, we were informed by responsible persons including vigilance and special police establishment officers that corruption exists in the lower ranks of the judiciary all over india and in some places it has spread to the higher ranks also ..... known principles of criminal jurisprudence. it also aims to protect honest public servants from harassment by prescribing that the investigation against them could be made only by police officials of particular status and by making the sanction of the government or other appropriate officer a precondition for their prosecution. as it is a socially ..... chief justice he was said to have acquired assets disproportionate to the known source of income. the complaint in this regard was made to the delhi special police establishment ('cbi'). on 24 february 1976, the cbi registered a case against him with issuance of a first information report which was filed in one of .....
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Reported in : JT2003(Suppl2)SC1; 2003(7)SCALE54; (2004)9SCC362
Rajendra Babu. J.WRIT PETITION NO. 295 OF 1992: 1. The present petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India is the second round of legal action connected to the safety and environmental aspects of Tehri Dam before this Court. 2. The petitioners herein firstly urge us; to issue necessary directions to conduct further safety tests so as to ensure the safety of the dam. Secondly, they allege that the concerned authorities have not correspondingly complied with the conditions attached to the Environmental Clearance dated July 19, 1990 and want us to halt the Project till the same is complied with. Lastly, they want us to look into the Rehabilitation aspects. Subsequent to the filing of this petition few others joined as intervenes. String of Affidavits, counter-affidavits and other documents disclosing the minutest details have been presented. Oral submissions on both sides have been addressed at length.3. Before adverting to the contentions of safety, environmental clearance and...
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Reported in : AIR1996SC1011; 1996(1)CTC301; (1996)3GLR92; JT1996(1)SC57; 1996(1)KLT169(SC); 1996LabIC919; 1996(1)SCALE85; (1996)3SCC545; [1996]1SCR128; 1996(1)LC626(SC)
ORDER1. C.A. Nos. 3163-64/95. These appeals by special leave arise from the judgment dated January 18, 1995 of the Full Bench of the Kerala High Court in writ appeal Nos. 416 and 187 of 1992. The Division Bench, doubting the correctness of the judgment in Public Service Commission v. Dr. Kanjamma Alex (1981) KLT 24 (subject matter of CA No. 1197/81) had referred the question to the Full Bench. Facts lie in a short compass and are stated as under :2. Two posts of Lecturers in Law Department of Cochin University were notified for recruitment, one of which was reserved for Latin Catholics (Backward Class-Fishermen). The appellant, a Syrian Catholic (a forward class), having married a Latin Catholic, had applied for selection as a reserved candidate. The University selected her on that basis and accordingly appointed her against the reserved post. Her appointment was questioned by one Rani George by filing a Writ Petition, viz., O.P. No. 9450/91 praying for a direction to the University to...
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