Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Nov-07-2019
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 4714-4715 OF2012UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....APPELLANT(S) V.R. NANUKUTTAN NAIR .....RESPONDENT(S) VERSUS JUDGMENT HEMANT GUPTA, J.1)2) The challenge in the present appeals is to the orders passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Kochi1 on 26th October, 2010 and April 12, 2011 holding that the respondent2 is entitled to service element of disability pension from the date of discharge. The facts in brief are that the applicant was discharged on 30th June, 1978 after completion of 10 years and 169 days of service. He was in low medical category since 1970. He was granted disability pension @50% on account of suffering from Viral Myocarditis post discharge, but the applicant was denied the benefit of service element of disability pension. It is the denial of this service element which led the applicant to invoke the 1 2 for short, Tribunal hereinafter referred to as the applicant 13) 4)5) jur...
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Decided on : Nov-07-2019
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1856 OF2013STATE OF UTTARAKHAND ... APPELLANT VERSUS DARSHAN SINGH ... RESPONDENT WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1857 OF2013JUDGMENT K.M. JOSEPH, J.1. Since these appeals involve the same impugned judgment of the High Court acquitting the respondents of offences under Section 147, 148, 149 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as the IPC, for short), we deem it fit to dispose of the same by a common judgment. 1 PROSECUTION CASE IN BRIEF2 The complaint in this case, which led to the trial, was lodged by one Swarn Singh-PW1. The complaint in brief is as follows: On 22.08.1992, when he, along with his father, mother and maternal uncle, were going on a tractor from Nanakmatta to their village and his father was driving the tractor, when the tractor reached one kilometre from their house, they found that a bullock cart has blocked their passage. The tractor stopped near the bullock...
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Decided on : Nov-14-2019
Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL/CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Review Petition (Crl.) No.46 of 2019 IN Writ Petition (Crl.) No.298 of 2018 YASHWANT SINHA & ORS. .Petitioners Versus .Respondents INTERVENTION APPLICATION, CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Through its DIRECTOR & ANR. (I.A. No.69008/2019 CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, I.A. No.69006/2019 I.A. No.71047/2019 PRODUCTION OF RECORDS and I.A. No.69009/2019 STAY APPLICATION) WITH MA582019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.225/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. No.182576/2018 CORRECTION OF MISTAKES IN THE JUDGMENT) R.P.(Crl.) No.122/2019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.297/2018 (PIL-W) 1 No.29248/2019 CRIMINAL INITIATING MA4032019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.298/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. PROCEEDINGS U/S340OF CRPC) R.P.(C) No.719/2019 in W.P.(C) No.1205/2018 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(Crl.) No.3/2019 in R.P.(Crl.) No.46/2019 in W.P.(Crl.) No.298/2018 (PIL-W) (I.A. No.63168/2019 EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., I.A. No.71678/2019 EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and I.A. No.66253/2019 EXEMPTION FROM F...
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Decided on : Oct-17-2019
1 NONREPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). 1560 OF2019PREM SINGH APPELLANT(S) Versus SUKHDEV SINGH & OTHERS RESPONDENT(S) WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). 1561 OF2019JUDGMENT Deepak Gupta, J.These appeals by the victim as well as by the State are directed against the judgment dated 24.07.2013 whereby the High Court allowed the appeal of the accused and set aside the judgment of the trial court whereby the respondents herein were convicted for various offences punishable under Sections 148, 2 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC for short) and Section 25 of the Arms Act, and sentenced to various terms including life imprisonment.2. We do not intend to give detailed facts of the case. The gist of the case is that on 25.05.2005, accused Jagir Singh had caused injuries to Palwinder Kaur, who is the sisterinlaw of Prem Singh (PW1). Prem Singh (PW1) had gone to the milk chilling centre at Lopoke, because his father was contesting election...
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Decided on : Nov-05-2019
REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.8139 OF2019(DIARY No.38432 OF2017 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....APPELLANT(S) LT. COL. OM DUTT SHARMA (RETD.) DEAD THROUGH LRS & ORS. .....RESPONDENT(S) VERSUS JUDGMENT HEMANT GUPTA, J.1)2) The challenge in the present appeal is to an order passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Jabalpur1 on 9th February, 2017 whereby, an Original Application filed by the respondent - Lt. Col. Om Dutt Sharma was allowed holding that the respondent is entitled to the benefit of One Rank One Pension2. The respondent died during pendency of the appeal. His legal heirs have been brought on record, whereas respondent Nos. 3 to 86 have been impleaded as intervenors vide order dated 14th May, 1 2 for short, Tribunal for short, OROP 1 2018 in view of the fact that the said intervenors claim the same benefit as claimed and granted to the deceased respondent. Since the issue is purely legal and the fact that large num...
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