Court : Punjab and Haryana
Decided on : Feb-26-1979
Reported in : AIR1979P& H183
S.S. Sandhawalia, C.J.1. Whether the National Insurance Company Limited is ''a State'' for the purposes of Art. 12, or a statutory Corporation amenable to the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, is the somewhat significant question which arises on the very threshold in this writ petition.2. The issue being pristinely legal, the f acts pale into relative insignificance. Suffice it to mention that the petitioner, who is the Branch Manager of the National Insurance Company Limited, claims to be aggrieved by his alleged supersession by officers junior to him and therefore, invokes Art. 16 of the Constitution in his aid. Further a grievance is made about a marginal reduction in his basic salary, which, has been labelled as reduction in rank, for which' the remedy is sought for in the writ jurisdiction under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India.3. Apart from the merits, a significant preliminary objection to the very maintainability of the writ petition has bee...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
Decided on : Feb-16-1979
Reported in : (1979)ILLJ414P& H
1. Whether the National Insurance Company Limited is 'a State' for the purposes of Article 12, or a statutory Corporation amenable to the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, is the somewhat significant question which arises on the very threshold in this writ petition.2. The issue being pristinely legal, the facts pale into relative insignificance. Suffice it to mention that the petitioner, who is the Branch Manager of the National Insurance Company Limited, claims to aggrieved by his alleged supersession by officers junior to him and, therefore, invokes Article 16 of the Constitution in his aid. Further a grievance is made about a marginal reduction in his basic salary, which has been labelled as reduction in rank, for which the remedy is sought for in the writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.3. Apart from the merits, a significant preliminary objection to the very maintainability of the writ petition has been raised and strenuo...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
Decided on : Oct-15-1979
Reported in : [1982]136ITR589(P& H)
B.S. Dhillon, J. 1. The petitioner in this petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India is a firm carrying on business of buying andselling electroplating material. The petitioner-firm submitted a return for the year 1971-72 before the ITO. The ITO asked the petitioner to show and furnish a list of items where purchases in excess of Rs. 2,500 were effected, otherwise than by crossed cheques. The copy of this notice is appended as annex. P-l to this petition. In compliance with the above-mentioned notice, the petitioner produced the account books before the ITO, The notice, annex. P-1, pertains to the assessment years 1970-71 and 1971-72. Thereafter, the ITO issued another notice dated March 7, 1974 (annex. P-2), under Section 143(3) of the I.T. Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), stating therein that the assessee having been requested to file the details of items of cash purchases above Rs. 2,500 as per his ledgers and the said details having not been file...
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