Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Sep-18-2008
Reported in : AIR2009SC204; 2009CriLJ378; 2008(12)SCALE604; 2008AIRSCW7139
Altamas Kabir, J.1. These three appeals arise out of the judgment and order dated 1st December, 2004, passed by the Uttaranchal High Court dismissing the appeal filed by the appellants herein (Criminal Appeal No. 851/01) against the judgment and order of the Sessions Judge, Almora, in ST No. 36 of 1987, convicting the appellants under Sections 302/34, 201/34 and 394 Indian Penal Code. One of the accused, Ratan Singh, died during the trial which abated against him and continued against the other accused persons.2. According to the prosecution, on 26th February, 1987, the deceased Bhupal Singh @ Joga Singh of village Sain Bagaria, District Almora, Uttaranchal, went to the Mela held at village Dabra on the occasion of Shiv Ratri along with his wife and two children. He had taken an amount of Rs. 3,000/- with him for purchasing two bullocks and a goat. While at the Mela, he met Gusain Singh and remained at the Mela with his wife and children till 4.30 p.m. when he sent them back to their v...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Himachal Pradesh
Decided on : Sep-17-2008
Reported in : 2008(3)ShimLC370
..... , shops or persons available near the place of recovery. he denied his knowledge in case there is small house above the place where the accused was arrested or 3-4 nepalis reside near the residence of the accused. pw-1 hhc hem raj has clearly stated that he was sent in search of local and independent witnesses, but he could not .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Decided on : Sep-17-2008
Reported in : [2009]150CompCas113(Cal),[2008]88SCL23(Cal)
Pinaki Chandra Ghose, J.1. This appeal is against an Order and/or judgment dated 6th July, 2007 passed by the Learned Appellate Tribunal.2. The facts of this case briefly are as follows:An order was passed by the Special Director (Appeals) Foreign Exchange Management Act forming a common adjudication order dated 30th December, 2004 where the adjudicating authority imposed penalty of Rs. 10 lacs against the appellant company and Rs. 10 lacs against the appellant Managing Director for contravention of Section 10(6) of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as 'the said Act') on the ground that the appellants after taking remittances of foreign exchange of US Dollars 35766 and FRF 374000 on 18th April, 2000 and 19th June, 2000 respectively for import of refrigeration machinery so as to use the same in Hotel Industry in fact failed to do so and also failed to file the proofs thereof.3. It further appears that the appellant company filed an appeal before the Learned ...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Patna
Decided on : Sep-16-2008
Sudhir Kumar Katriar, J.1. The six appellants have preferred the six appeals arising out of a common judgment dated 22.2.1988, passed by the learned 2nd Additional Sessions Judge, Nalanda at Biharsharif, in Sessions Trial No. 258 of 1986/10 of 1987 (The State of Bihar v. Shailendra Mahton and five Ors.), whereby Arun Mahto alias Arun Kumar has been convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The remaining appellants, namely, Krishna Murari Mahton alias Krishna Murari Prasad, Shailendra Mahton alias Shailendra Prasad, Bahadur Mahto alias Interjit alias Inderjit Singh, Kaushlendra Prasad alias Kaushal Mahton, and Surendra Prasad alias Suli Mahton have been convicted under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the IPC. All the six appellants have been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life.2. The prosecution case is that on 7.3.1986, at 10.45 A.M., the informant Budhram Prasad (P.W.6), along with deceased Vijay Yadav got into a Rajya Transport bus bearing No. BHY 135...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Patna
Decided on : Sep-12-2008
Sudhir Kumar Katriar, J.1. This is a batch of 13 writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, questioning the validity of the selection process of the Bihar Administrative Service First Limited Competitive Examination 2003 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Selection Process'), conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as 'BPSC'). All the writ petitions (except Cr.WJC No. 583 of 2007 and CWJC No. 16093 of 2007) have been preferred by unsuccessful candidates, some of whom want cancellation of the selection process from the stage of the advertisement, some other want the selection process from the post-advertisement stage and fresh examination to be held, and still others want the selection process to be upheld and preparation of fresh merit list in accordance with law after excluding the charge-sheeted candidates. Cr.WJC No. 583 of 2007 has been preferred by the successful candidates and pray for the direction that the investigation may b...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Decided on : Sep-10-2008
Reported in : 2008(12)SCALE301; 2008AIRSCW6342; 2008(8)SCC660
..... . on the basis of the misinterpretation of appellant's remarks as reported in certain sections of the media, the complainants also alleged that the appellant had deliberately insulted the 'gorkhali/nepali' community and hence he was liable to be prosecuted for an offence under section 153a of ipc. in furtherance of fir no. 125/2007, the inspector-in-charge, sadar p .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Decided on : Sep-10-2008
Reported in : (2009)22VST371(Karn); 2009(2)KCCRSN62; 2009(4)AIRKarR436
ORDERN. Kumar, J.1. The petitioner is a private limited company registered under the Companies Act and having its registered office at Bangalore. The petitioner has a manufacturing unit at pondicherry. The petitioner is registered under the Karnataka Sales Tax Act (hereinafter for short referred to as the KST Act) and Central Sake Tax Act (hereinafter for short referred to as 'the CST Act'). The petitioner it engaged in the business of manufacture and supply of ATMs and manufacture, supply and trading of their parts and accessories. The petitioner also undertake Annual Maintenance Contracts (AMCs) for maintenance of ATMs. In so far as sale of parts and accessories of ATMs and maintenance of ATMs under the AMCs and construction of ATM rooms by the petitioner's branch in Bangalore are concerned, the petitioner has admitted its liability and filed returns for the assessment years 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06 and also 2006-07 under the KST and CST Acts. The petitioner has been duty a...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Rajasthan
Decided on : Sep-05-2008
Reported in : 2009CriLJ302
Mohammad Rafiq, J.1. This appeal is directed against the judgment of the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 2, Kota whereby the accused appellant was convicted for offence under Section 307 of the IPC and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of eight years with a fine of Rs. 50/- and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment of one month.2. Factual matrix of the case are that one Smt. Ayodhya Bai submitted a written report on 1-12-1982 to the Police Station Kaithooni Police inter alia alleging therein that at about 7.30 PM on that date she along with her sister's daughter Vimla and son Kishan has gone to see the Dusshera Mela. When they reached near Shripura Bus Stand, Pradeep @ Pinku, the present petitioner, Chotya, Afzal and Assu approached them from behind. Chotya, Afzal and Assu caught hold of Kishan and accused appellant Pradeep caused to him injuries by knife which he had carried in his pocket. Kishan received three injuries on his person...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Decided on : Sep-02-2008
Reported in : AIR2008Cal255,2008(4)ARBLR567(Cal),2008(4)CHN477
Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay, J.1. The instant appeal has been preferred from the judgment and order dated 21st March, 2005 passed by a learned single Judge of this Hon'ble Court on the application filed by the appellant herein under Sections 30 and 33 of the Arbitration Act, 1940. By the said application, appellant herein challenged the legality and validity of the award dated August, 30, 1990 passed by the learned Sole Arbitrator.2. It has been argued on behalf of the appellant that the learned single Judge has modified the award made by the learned Sole Arbitrator and virtually passed a new award in respect of the disputes between the parties. The learned Senior Counsel representing the appellant referred to the concluding portions of the judgment under appeal and submitted that the learned single Judge had observed that the learned Arbitrator might have for a noble cause directed payment of costs to the Army Central Welfare Fund, but the awarding of costs to a non-party is not permis...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Delhi
Decided on : Aug-29-2008
Reported in : 153(2008)DLT92
P.K. Bhasin, J.1. This appeal has been filed by the two appellants, who are real brothers, against the judgment dated 21.11.2001 and order dated 22.11.2001 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi in Session Case No. 90/2000 whereby they were convicted under Sections 302 and 307 read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code ('IPC' in brief) and sentenced to imprisonment for life and also to a fine of Rs.5000/- each, with a default stipulation, for the murder of one Kapil and rigorous imprisonment for seven years and a fine of Rs.5000/-each, with a default stipulation, for the attempted murder of his mother. 2. The incident leading to the prosecution of the two appellants(hereinafter to be referred to as the accused persons) was narrated by PW-2 Santosh Sharma in her first information statement to the police(Ex.PW- 2/A) on 12th December,1998 when the incident had taken place. She had claimed that that day i.e. 12th December, 1998, her sons Kapil(the deceased) and Anuj(PW-5) ha...
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