Court : Delhi
Decided on : Dec-11-2008
Reported in : 156(2009)DLT129
Shiv Narayan Dhingra, J.1. The above four petitions give rise to a common question about the jurisdiction of Civil Court and are being disposed of jointly by this common order. The learned ADJ where the petitioners filed suit under Section 6 of the Specific Relief Act observed in his order dated 16.10.2006 that in view of the provision of Section 185 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, Civil Court would have no jurisdiction to entertain the suit and returned the plaint. The petitioners aggrieved by the order have preferred these Civil Revisions under Section 115 CPC.2. Brief facts relevant for the purpose of deciding these petitions are that the petitioners are member of Defendant Society (respondent No. 3 herein). This Society purchased 44 acres of land in Village Neb Sarai, Mehrauli from various landholders viz. respondents No. 4-7. The society developed this land into a housing and cultural center. Residential plots were demarcated, boundary walls were erected, roads, sewerages, culverts...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Delhi
Decided on : Dec-19-2008
Reported in : 156(2009)DLT172
Gita Mittal, J.1. This writ petition has been filed by Aditya Khanna assailing the action of the respondents in revoking his passport bearing No. F 4812183 without issuance of a notice to show cause and grant of an opportunity to represent against the proposed action. The action is assailed also on the ground of malafide and that no order has been communicated to him till date.2. Certain public allegations into the administration and management of the United Nation Oil for Food Programme in Iraq were made. As a result, the United Nations Security Council appointed an independent high level inquiry headed by Mr. Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve to look into the administration and management of the programme in Iraq. On 27th October, 2005 the Volcker Committee submitted its fifth and final substantiative report setting out the manner in which Iraq had manipulated the programme to dispense contracts on the basis of political preference and to derive ill...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Delhi
Decided on : Dec-08-2008
Reported in : 2009ACJ1189
V.B. Gupta, J.1. By this common judgment, I shall dispose of the above two appeals filed by the Appellant-Insurance company.2. These two appeals have been filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short as 'Act') against the impugned judgment dated 12th September, 2007 passed by the Dr. T.R. Naval, Judge, MACT (for short as 'Tribunal').3. Brief facts of this case are that on 18th July, 2004 at 1.20 P.M., deceased Mukesh Jain, was driving his two wheeler scooter No. DAI-1835 on which his son namely Master Shashank Jain was pillion rider. When they reached near SDM office, Geeta Colony, Delhi, all of a sudden the offending motorcycle bearing No. DL-7S-G-3282 being driven by its driver respondent Jatin Singh, in a very rash and negligent manner, without blowing any horn, tried to overtake the scooter of the deceased and in that process struck against the scooter of the deceased with a great force due to which the deceased and his son were thrown on the road. The decease...
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