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 : Andhra Pradesh
Decided on : Dec-19-2008
Reported in : 2009(2)ALT768
ORDERV.V.S. Rao, J.1. Five petitioners herein are residents of Regatipalli village. They filed present writ petition seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring action of respondents (District Collector, Ananthapur, Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), Dharmavaram, and the Tahasildar, Dharmavaram Mandal) in finalizing list of beneficiaries for assignment of agricultural lands in the village as illegal and arbitrary.2. The affidavit in support of writ petition filed by first petitioner contains the following main allegations. It is submitted that the petitioners are landless poor persons and they eke out their livelihood by doing agricultural work and the petitioners are entitled for assignment of agricultural land in terms of the government orders which are in vogue. The respondents have proposed to grant agricultural land available in Regatipalli village, Dharmavaram Mandal in favour of landless poor persons. The 3rd respondent has notified the list of eligible persons through his proceedings i...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Decided on : Dec-23-2008
S.P. Talukdar, J.1. The petitioner, Inland Manufacturing Company, by filing an application under Article 227 of the Constitution being C.O. No. 4477 of 2005 sought to assail the judgment dated 30th September, 2005 passed by the learned 5th Bench, City Civil Court at Calcutta in Misc. Appeal No. 13 of 2001. The learned Court by the said judgment affirmed the order dated 4th June, 2001 passed by the Estate Officer, Kolkata Port Trust in proceeding No. 281 of 1999.2. The grievances of the petitioner, as ventilated in the said application, may briefly be stated as follows:The petitioner is a monthly tenant in respect of a passage measuring 6.318 square metre together with a room measuring about 1951 square kilometre called Plate No. CG- 184/1, situate at P-221/2, Strand Bank Road, P.S.- North Port, Kolkata- 700 001 hereinafter referred to as the 'said premises'. The petitioner became a tenant under the opposite party on and from March 31, 1968. He had been paying monthly rent of Rs. 138/- ...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Andhra Pradesh
Decided on : Dec-24-2008
Reported in : 2008(5)ALT260
C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, J.1. This batch of Writ Petitions is filed by the Union of India, represented by the Divisional Railway Manager (Commercial), South Central Railway, Vijayawada and other functionaries of South Central Railway, wherein orders dated 26-10-1995 in A.S. No. 61 of 1986 on the file of the Additional District Judge, West Godavari, Eluru and the various consequential orders passed by the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 & Deputy Commissioner of Labour, Eluru, (for short 'the Authority') in favour of the respondents for payment of withheld wages are assailed.Background facts:2. In order to adjudicate the various issues raised in these cases, it is necessary to refer to the facts in detail.3. The Railway Porters working in Eluru Railway Station approached the Authority with two different applications - one for the withheld wages for the period from January, 1983 to August, 1984 and the other for the similar claim for the period from September, 1984 to August, ...
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