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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.34 OF2015(arising out of Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.2961 of 2013) |SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL |.....APPELLANT(S) | |VERSUS | | |CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION |.....RESPONDENT(S) | W I T H CRIMINAL APPEAL No.35 OF2015(arising out of Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.3161 of 2013) A N D CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. 36-37 OF2015(arising out of Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.3326-3327 of 2013) JUDGMENT A.K. SIKRI, J.Leave granted. Introduction: In the year 2008, during the tenure of the then Minister of Telecommunications, Unified Access Services Licenses ("UASL") were granted. After sometime, an information was disclosed to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleging various forms of irregularities committed in connection with the grant of the said UASL which resulted in huge losses to the public exchequer. On the basis of such source information, the CBI registered a case bearing RC DAI2009A0045o...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.7133 OF2008UNION OF INDIA & ANR. ......APPELLANTS Versus PURUSHOTTAM .....RESPONDENT JUDGMENT VIKRAMAJIT SEN,J.1 The Respondent herein, No.7773409X Havildar (Military Police) Purushottam, was enrolled in the Corps of Military Police, on 7th June 1983. On 27th November 2001, while the Respondent was posted to 916 Provost Unit (General Reserve Engineer Force, or GREF), he was detailed as a member of Mobile Squad and was tasked to carry out checks of various Gref detachments located on the Udhampur-Srinagar highway. On completion of duty, the Squad Commander reported the following activities of the Respondent: a) He had demanded Rs. 15000 from the Commander 367 RM Platoon (Kanbal) against surplus construction stores held with the platoon; b) he had taken 100 litres of HSD (high speed diesel) with barrel from Superintendent BR-I HL Meena of 367 Platoon, Gund Detachment and thereafter had sold it along wit...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.792 OF2014Additional District and Sessions Judge 'X' ... Petitioner versus Registrar General, High Court of Madhya Pradesh and others ... Respondents JUDGMENT Jagdish Singh Khehar, J.1. The present writ petition has been filed by a former Additional District and Sessions Judge of the Madhya Pradesh Higher Judicial Service. The factual narration in the writ petition incorporates allegations of sexual harassment aimed at the petitioner, at the behest of a sitting Judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh (herein after referred to as, 'the High Court'), who has been impleaded by name as respondent no.3. The authenticity of the allegations levelled by the petitioner, which have been expressly disputed by respondent no.3, would stand affirmed or repudiated only after culmination of due process. Such being the sensitivity of the matter, it would be inappropriate to disclose the identity either of th...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.562 OF2012Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha & Ors. ...Petitioners Versus Union of India & Ors. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.274 OF2009Assam Public Works ...Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors. ...Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.876 OF2014All Assam Ahom Association & Ors. ...Petitioners Versus Union of India & Ors. ...Respondents JUDGMENT R.F. Nariman, J.1. A Prophet is without honour in his own country. Substitute 'citizen' for 'prophet' and you will get the gist of the various writ petitions filed under Article 32 of the Constitution of India assailing Section 6A of the Citizenship Act.2. It all began when the Burmese ceded Assam to the British on 24th February, 1826 as per the treaty of Yandabo, thus bringing to an end Ahom rule in Assam which had begun sometime in the 13th century. The British annexed Assam and placed it as an administrative unit of the Bengal Province...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.11466 OF2014(Arising out of SLP(C) No.8113 OF2014 RAMAN .........APPELLANT Vs. UTTAR HARYANA BIJLI VITRAN NIGAM LTD.& ORS. .........RESPONDENTS JUDGMENT V.GOPALA GOWDA, J.Leave granted.2. The appellant, represented through his natural guardian father - Manoj Kumar, has filed this appeal questioning the judgment and order dated 30.10.2013 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in the Letters Patent Appeal No.1631 of 2013 in Civil Writ Petition No.14046 of 2012.3. The brief facts are stated herein: The appellant, a four year old boy was electrocuted on 03.11.2011 by coming in direct contact with the naked electric wire lying open on the roof of his house. Immediately after the incident, the boy was taken for first aid to a nearby R.M. Anand Hospital in Panipat, Haryana from where he was referred to Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. The final...
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1297 OF2011Harish Kumar ... Appellant Versus State of Haryana ... Respondent JUDGMENT PRAFULLA C. PANT, J.This appeal is directed against judgment and order dated 7.12.2010, passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Appeal No.310-SB of 2001 whereby the High Court has dismissed the appeal of the appellant Harish Kumar. He was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Hisar in Sessions Case No.1 of 1994 under Sections 304B and 498A IPC, and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for seven years.2. We have heard learned counsel for the parties at length and perused the record of the case.3. Brief facts of the present case are that accused Harish Kumar got married with Manisha (deceased) on 14.1.1992. The couple was blessed with a son in the month of November, 1992. They used to live in Hansi in the district of Hisar, Haryana. On 13.9.1993 at about 10.30 p.m., Manisha suffered burn injuries, and...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1451 OF2009Uma Shankar Gautam .. Appellant versus State of Madhya Pradesh .. Respondent JUDGMENT C. NAGAPPAN, J.This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order dated 12.8.2008 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur in Criminal Appeal No.1537 of 1998. The appellant herein is accused no.1 and he along with five other accused were tried in Sessions case no.193/1995 on the file of Sessions Judge, District Shahdol and the trial court convicted them for the commission of offences under Section 147 and Section 302 read with Section 149 IPC and sentenced each of them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year for the first offence and each of them to undergo imprisonment for life for second offence. Aggrieved by the same all the accused preferred Criminal Appeal no.1537 of 1998 to the High Court of judicature at Jabalpur. During the pendency of appeal appellant no.2/accused no...
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Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.3872 OF2009Karedla Parthasaradhi Appellant(s) Versus Gangula Ramanamma (D) Through L.Rs. & Ors. Respondent(s) JUDGMENT Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.1. This appeal is filed by the plaintiff against the judgment and decree dated 19.12.2008 passed by the High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in Appeal Suit No.1842 of 1996 which in turn arises out of judgment and decree dated 15.03.1996 passed by the IInd Additional Subordinate Judge, Vijayawada, in O.S. No.15 of 1985.2. By impugned judgment, the learned Single Judge of the High Court allowed the first appeal filed by defendant No.1 (respondent No.1 herein), reversed the judgment and decree of the trial court, which had decreed plaintiff's suit for ejectment against defendant No.1 in relation to the suit house and in consequence dismissed the plaintiff's suit.3. So the question that arises for consideration in this appeal is whether the High Cou...
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Non-Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.2530 OF2014@ (SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL.) NO.2038 OF2013 ZORAWAR SINGH & ANR. .... APPELLANTS Versus GURBAX SINGH BAINS & ORS. ....RESPONDENTS JUDGMENT UDAY UMESH LALIT, J.1. This petition for special leave to appeal challenges the judgment and order dated 21.02.2013 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Miscellaneous No.M-6656 of 2011. Leave granted.2. On 28.09.2010, a complaint was given by one Karnail Singh alleging that on the intervening night of 27th and 28th of September 2010 in a road accident between a Ford Endeavour Car having registration No.PCP17driven by Zorawar Singh i.e. the present Appellant No.1 and a truck bearing Registration No.HR58 3264 at Liberty Chowk, Rajpura, District Patiala, two students namely Gagandeep Singh Bains (son of the present respondent no.1) and Gaurav Verma died and the other two occupants of the car namely Appellant No.1 ...
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS.10608-10609 OF2014[Arising out of S.L.P. (Civil) Nos. 19079-19080 of 2014]. HDFC Bank Ltd. ... Appellant Versus Kumari Reshma and Ors. ... Respondents JUDGMENT Dipak Misra, J.Leave granted in both the Special Leave Petitions. In these appeals, by special leave, the assail is to the judgment and order dated 22.10.2013 passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of judicature of Madhya Pradesh Bench at Indore in Misc. Appeal No.2261 of 2005 preferred by the Centurion Bank Limited, the predecessor-in-interest of the appellant herein, and Misc. Appeal No.3243 of 2005 preferred by the claimants, the 1st respondent herein, whereby the High Court has dismissed the appeal preferred by the appellant herein and allowed the appeal of the claimants by enhancing the awarded sum to Rs. 3 lacs opining that the said amount would be just and equitable compensation for the injuries sustained by her. The High Court also ...
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