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Judgment Search Results Home > Cases Phrase: judges inquiry act 1968 section 5 powers of committee Court: supreme court of india Year: 1960 Page 5 of about 53 results (0.479 seconds)

Sep 14 1960 (SC)

NaraIn Das Vs. the State of Uttar Pradesh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Decided on : Sep-14-1960

Reported in : AIR1961SC181; 1961CriLJ317; [1961]1SCR676

..... the administration of justice.' section 476 empowers any civil, revenue or criminal court when it of the opinion that it is expedient in the interests of justice that an inquiry should be made into any offence referred to in s. 195(1)(b) or (c) which appears to have been committed in or in relation to a ..... lies, to the principal court having ordinary original civil jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such civil court is situate. the decrees of a single judge of the high court exercising civil jurisdiction are ordinarily appealable to the high court under clause 10 of the letters patent of the allahabad high court read with ..... making a complaint under s. 193, indian penal code, against phanish tripathi alleging that a certain statement in an affidavit filed by the latter was false. the learned judge who heard this application holding that the appellant had not succeeded in showing that any portion of the affidavit of tripathi filed on may 14, 1959, was false, .....

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May 04 1960 (SC)

Luhar Amrit Lal Nagji Vs. Doshi Jayantilal Jethalal and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Decided on : May-04-1960

Reported in : AIR1960SC964; [1960]3SCR842

..... , that the purchasers at an execution sale, being strangers to the suit, if they have not notice that the debts were so contracted, are not bound to make inquiry beyond what appears on the face of the proceedings'. the first proposition which has been laid down in this judgment as deduced from kantoo lal's case (1874) l ..... by respondent 2. in the result the suit filed by the appellants was decreed. against the said decree respondent 1 preferred an appeal before the district judge, but the district judge agreed with all the findings made by the trial court and dismissed the said appeal. respondent 1 then took the matter before the high court of saurashtra ..... was right in giving the decree, or having given it, in putting up the property for sale under an execution upon it. evidence showed that the auction purchaser acted bona fide, had made enquiries and was satisfied that the decree had been properly passed and purchased the property at auction sale on payment of valuable consideration. on .....

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May 06 1960 (SC)

Jai Kaur and ors. Vs. Sher Singh and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Decided on : May-06-1960

Reported in : AIR1960SC1118; [1960]3SCR975

..... a daughter does not succeed in the presence of collaterals. as regards the remainder of the suit land which he held was non-ancestral, the learned judge was of opinion that the gift was merely an acceleration of succession as under the customary law governing the parties daughters exclude collaterals as regards succession to ..... grewal jats of ludhiana the daughter excluded collaterals as regards non-ancestral property. he held, therefore, agreeing with the trial judge that as regards the non-ancestral property the deed of gift was merely an act of acceleration of succession and was, therefore, valid and binding. the appeal was accordingly dismissed and so also were ..... the cross-objections which appear not to have been pressed. 3. on second appeal the learned judges of the east punjab high court accepted the contention .....

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Feb 12 1960 (SC)

Smt. Nagindra Bala Mitra and anr. Vs. Sunil Chandra Roy and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Decided on : Feb-12-1960

Reported in : AIR1960SC706; 1960CriLJ1020; [1960]3SCR1

..... say that grievous hurt was only an aggravated form of hurt, and that the liability of the accused did not cease, if he committed an act which resulted in a simple hurt. indeed, the learned judge did not tell the jury that even if they held that the accused did not cause a grievous injury, it would be open to them ..... facts were compatible with his guilt. so far as this direction went, nothing can be said against it. the judge next proceeded to explain what was meant by the expression 'fact proved'. he paraphrased the definition of 'proved' from the evidence act. in dealing with this topic, he omitted to explain also the expressions 'disproved' and 'not proved'; but that ..... unjustified or that he wrongly influenced the jury against the witness. it must be stated here that the learned judge had cautioned the jury that they were not bound by his opinion on a question of fact and were free to act on their own opinion. 24. this brings us to the medical evidence. the two doctors of importance who .....

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Mar 14 1960 (SC)

In Re: the Berubari Union and Exchange of Enclaves Reference Under Art ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Decided on : Mar-14-1960

Reported in : AIR1960SC845; [1960]3SCR250

..... had been decided that the province of bengal and punjab shall be partitioned. accordingly, a boundary commission was appointed, inter alia, for bengal consisting of four judges of high courts and a chairman to be appointed later. sir cyril radcliffe was subsequently appointed as chairman. so far as bengal was concerned the material terms ..... of chandernagore to india, and as from that date the government of india assumed control and jurisdiction over chandernagore under s. 4 of the foreign jurisdiction act, 1947 (act 47 of 1947). relevant notification was issued by the government of india under the said section as a result of which certain indian laws were made ..... as an illustration of the procedure which can be adopted by parliament in making a law for absorbing newly acquired territory we may refer to the chandernagore merger act, 1954 (act xxxvi of 1954), which was passed on september 29, 1954, and came into force as from october 2, 1954. chandernagore, which was a french possession, .....

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Jun 20 1960 (FN)

Flemming Vs. Nestor

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Jun-20-1960

..... of the grounds specified in 202(n), his old-age benefits were terminated shortly thereafter. he commenced this action in a single-judge district court, under 205(g) of the social security act, to secure judicial review of that administrative decision. the district court held that 202(n) deprived appellee of an accrued property ..... trusted, and political liberty must be restrained." "james madison challenged this latter doctrine. the investigative power of congress over persons, he contended, was limited to inquiry into the conduct of individuals in the public service. 'opinions,' he said, 'are not the subjects of legislation.' start criticizing people for abuse of their ..... page 363 u. s. 637 is ground for the inference of a congressional concern with the administration of the social security program. only after this inquiry would i consider the application of the presumption. the court seems to acknowledge that the statute bears harshly upon the individual disqualified, but states that .....

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Feb 23 1960 (FN)

United States Vs. Mersky

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Feb-23-1960

..... s. 141 , 284 u. s. 147 ; united states v. storrs, 272 u. s. 652 , 272 u. s. 654 . as established by these precedents, the focal point of inquiry is not the form page 361 u. s. 442 of the defendant's plea, but the effect of the ruling of the district court. [ footnote 2/1 ] "the material question ..... question that the statute validly and clearly confers power upon the secretary of the treasury to issue a properly worded regulation making the acts of the appellees unlawful. this is made apparent by the district judge's statement that "[t]he secretary could very easily have indicated that east and west germany page 361 u. s. 454 ..... 41 cong.rec. 2819. it is manifest that the preoccupying thought of the primary promoter of the legislation, president roosevelt, and of congress, was to bar a single judge from destroying, either by way of construction or invalidation, congressional enactments. extension of the range of the meaning of "statute" to include regulations to which penal consequences attach .....

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Jun 20 1960 (FN)

Steelworkers Vs. Warrior and Gulf Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Jun-20-1960

..... to submit. yet, to be consistent with congressional policy in favor of settlement of disputes by the parties through the machinery of arbitration, the judicial inquiry under 301 must be strictly confined to the question whether the reluctant party did agree to arbitrate the grievance or did agree to give the arbitrator ..... using the arbitration process is primarily to further their common goal of uninterrupted production under the agreement, to make the agreement serve their specialized needs. the ablest judge cannot be expected to bring the same experience and competence to bear upon the determination of a grievance, because he cannot be similarly informed. the congress, ..... however, has, by 301 of the labor management relations act, assigned the courts the duty of determining whether the reluctant party has breached his promise to arbitrate. for arbitration is a matter of contract, and a .....

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May 16 1960 (FN)

Parker Vs. Ellis

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : May-16-1960

..... of the writ is no longer relevant, because the function of the writ -- to provide and to facilitate inquiry into the validity of the applicant's claim -- has already been fully served. [ footnote 8 ] the district judge page 362 u. s. 583 ordered that petitioner's application be heard upon affidavits, depositions, and the record ..... there is also some dispute among these authors with respect to the historical significance of the jenkes case. the nature of the abuses which led to passage of the act is clear, however, and, for present purposes, it is immaterial which particular case aroused the greatest public sentiment. [ footnote 14 ] under our habeas corpus statute ..... state's interest in upholding the validity of this conviction is insubstantial. [ footnote 30 ] for example, under 504 of the labor-management reporting and disclosure act of 1959, persons who have been convicted of specified crimes are ineligible to serve for a five-year period in various positions for labor unions or employer .....

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Dec 19 1960 (FN)

Reina Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Dec-19-1960

..... , in which the court upheld a federal immunity statute passed in the name of the commerce clause and construed that statute to apply to state prosecutions. the relevant inquiry here is thus simply whether the legislated state immunity is necessary and proper to the more effective enforcement of the undoubted power to enact the narcotics laws. it can ..... the state." id. , at 356 u. s. 218 . i adhere to that view and reiterate my belief that the court's position rests solely upon the fact that "judges and lawyers have told each other the contrary so often that they have come to accept it as the gospel truth." id. at 356 u. s. 219 . thus, i ..... involved with him and their activities in smuggling narcotics into this country from europe. he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination under the fifth amendment and refused to answer. acting pursuant to 18 u.s.c. 1406, which grants immunity from prosecution to a witness compelled to testify before a grand jury, the united states attorney, with .....

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