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..... protection of civil rights act, 1955), scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes (prevention of atrocities) act, 1989 (hereinafter poa act ), employment of manual scavengers and construction of dry latrines (prohibition) act, 1993, and prohibition of employment as manual scavengers and their rehabilitation act, 2013. this court, in a number of cases, ..... the court entertained a letter as a writ petition, which sought compliance with the provisions of labour laws in relation to workmen employed in the construction work of projects connected with the asian games. the petitioner contended that the labourers were also not paid their minimum daily wages, and were ..... and their rehabilitation act, 2013, the court directed the union government to take appropriate measures and issue directions, to all statutory bodies, including corporations, railways, cantonments, as well as agencies under its control, to ensure that manual sewer cleaning is completely eradicated in a phased manner . the court also .....
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..... power of arriving at a settlement under section 245-d cannot have the administrative power of issuing directions to other income tax authorities. it is a normal rule of construction that when a statute vests certain power in an authority to be exercised in a particular manner then the said authority has to exercise it only in the manner ..... of their authority, and he ought not to suffer if they exceed it. it may be sufficient to observe that in appeal from that judgment (howell v. falmouth boat construction co. ltd.) lord simonds observed after referring to the observations of denning, l.j.: the illegality of an act is the same whether the action has been misled by ..... in this case not concerned to deal with the question whether denning, l.j., was right in extending the rule to a different class of cases as in falmouth boat construction co. ltd. v. howell [(1950) 1 all er538 where he observed at p. 542: whenever government officers in their dealings with a subject take on themselves to assume .....
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