Court : Allahabad
Decided on : Feb-13-1959
Reported in : AIR1960All304
ORDERS.S. Dhavan, J.1. This is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution impugning the legality of an order passed by the Additional Superintendent of Police, Varanasi, dated 10-11-1955, reducing the petitioner in rank for a period of two years, and also of an order of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Eastern Range, Varanasi dated 26-6-1956 dismissing the petitioners' appeal against the aforesaid order of reduction, and of the order of the Inspector General of Police, Uttar Pradesh dated 20-3-1957, rejecting the petitioners' revision petition.2. The facts, as stated in the petitioners' affidavit are these : He was enlisted in the U. P. Police force in 1931 and claims to have a good record of meritorious service (this claim is not denied by the State). On 15-8-3955, the petitioner was posted as Station Officer-in-charge of the Police Station at Moghalsarai in the district of Varanasi. Just before that time a firing had taken place in the State of Bihar, as a result of whic...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Decided on : May-15-1959
Reported in : AIR1960All19; [1960]40ITR222(All)
Bhargava, J.1. These two connected writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution have been referred for decision to the Full Bench as they raise important questions relating to the validity of certain provisions of the Income-tax Act, (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act.'). For convenience, I am giving the facts of one of these writ petitions which is numbered 397 of 1955 in which the petitioner is Jai Kishan Srivastava. The petitioner, on the basis of return submitted by him to the Income-tax Officer, Kanpur, was assessed to tax for the assessment years 1940-41 to 1946-47.Thereafter. On 17-5-1948, he received notices from the Secretary, Income-tax Investigation Commission by which he was informed that his case had been referred to the Commission under Section 5(1) of the Taxation on Income Investigation Act, 1947: By these notices, the petitioner was directed to furnish to the Income-lax Investigation Commission certain information and to comply with certain other requirements...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Decided on : Jul-29-1959
Reported in : AIR1960All103; 1960CriLJ188
James, J. 1. Nadir Ali Barq Zaidi, Abdul Hamid Khan, Wajid Ali, Pritam Singh, Shujat Ali Khan Rahher, Tulsi Das and Abdul Majid Khan were tried before the Additional Sessions Judge of Moradabad for offence which fell under three main heads: first, that during the period the l5th June 1952 to the 2nd August 1952 they along with some persons unknown were party to a criminal conspiracy to commit the offence of cheating in the towns of Moradabad and Chandausi and were thereby guilty of an offence punishable under Section 120BI.P.C., second, that in pursuance of the conspiracy aforesaid they opened a firm entitled 'Bharat Helpers' and by making false statements, misrepresentation of facts, suppression of material particulars and other subtle devices dishonestly and fraudulently induced many members of the public to deliver various sums of money to them, in particular 26 named individuals, and were thereby guilty of an offence under Section 420 I. P. C. and third, that having been entrusted ...
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