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S.N. Jha, J. 1. The dispute in this appeal by the Commissioner and Joint Commissioner (Administration), Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Jharkhand, arising from a writ petition relates to the applicability of Statutory Orders made by the Governor of Bihar In the successor State of Jharkhand upon division of the State under the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 and entitlement of respondent No. 1 to the benefits of sales tax exemption on purchase of raw materials in terms of Statutory Order 478 dated 22.12.1995 of the Commercial Taxes Department.2. Respondent No. 1 M/s. Swarn Rekha Cokes and Coals Private Limited (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) filed writ petition, CWJC No. 11769/2000 (reported in 2002 (2) PLJR 299), seeking direction upon the respondents, namely, the officials of the Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Jharkhand and Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) to continue giving benefits of the exemption certificate dated 12.9.1997 granted by the Assis...
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Nagendra Rai, J. 1. The petitioner has filed the present writ application forquashing the order dated 20th November, 2001 passed by the Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Taxes Incharge, Patna Special Circle, Patna, respondent No. 4 holding that the petitioner is liable to pay sales-tax after 15-11-2000 on sale of goods earlier exempted by exemption certificate dated 20-12-1995 granted in favour of it under Section 7 (3)(b) of the Bihar Finance Act in terms of the Industrial Policy of the State for a period from 1-4-1998 to 31 -3-2007 and directed it to make the payment of sales-tax on a date specified in the order. A copy of the said order has been annexed as Annexure-1 to the writ application. 2. The petitioner, registered under the Companies Act as a public limited company and having its registered office at Mumbai is engaged in manufacturing cement in different cement factories/units located at different parts in the country. One of the regional offices of the marketing division o...
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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...
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Chandramauli Kr. Prasad, J. 1. Prayer of the petitioner in this writ application are as follows :--(1) To quash the order dated 27.2.2001 (Annexure-4) of the Government of Jharkhand in the Department of Water Resources and Energy whereby Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Ltd. has been declared to be an undertaking of the Government of Jharkhand in exercise of the power under Section 47 of the Bihar State Re-organisation Act, 2000. By this order it has been further declared that in the Memorandum and Article of Association of the Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Ltd. the expression 'Bihar' and 'Bihar Rajya' be read as 'Jharkhand' and 'Jharkhand Rajya' respectively;(2) To quash the order dated 24.5.2001 (Annexure-5) of the Government of Jharkhand in its Energy Department whereby in exercise of power under Article 49(1)(b)(d) and (e) of the Articles of Association and in supersession of all the earlier orders, it had constituted the Board of Directors of the Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Ltd;(3) To quash the order da...
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