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Devidas Ramachandra Tuljapurkar Vs. State of Maharashtra and Ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... , sequence or scene cannot depend upon the nature of the subject matter, but the question is one of the manner of handling of the subject-matter and sociological or ethical interest or message which the film conveys to the reasonable man, and that the approach of the court would be from the perspective of social pathological phenomenon with a critical doctor keeping the balance between the felt necessities of the time and social consciousness of a progressive society eliminating the evils and propagating for the cultural evolution literary taste and pursuit ..... must not be judged on the basis of what the artist (or author) purports to convey; what counts is the effect of the image on the observer; the fact that an image has been produced by an artist does not always make the end-result artistic; likewise an image does not become a satirical if the observer does not comprehend or detect any message in the work in question; that where the images depicted in the work product convey no message but only a disgusting combination of lewd acts and words whose only ..... today there is a movement afoot for the abolition of capital punishment and attempts are being made to convert prisons into hospitals as if they are persons suffering from a disease. 84. ..... state of punjab[89]. ..... (1957) 354 us476[11]. .....

Devender Pal Singh Bhullar Vs. State of N.C.T. of Delhi

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... it is difficult to rule out the validity of, or the strength behind, many of the arguments for abolition nor does, the commission treat lightly the argument based on the irrevocability of the sentence of death, the need for a modern approach, the severity of capital punishment and the strong feeling shown by certain sections of public opinion in stressing deeper questions of human values. ..... having regard, however, to the conditions in india, to the variety of the social upbringing of its inhabitants, to the disparity in the level of morality and education in the country, to the vastness of its area, to diversity of its population and to the paramount need for maintaining law and order in the country at the present juncture, india cannot risk the experiment of abolition of capital punishment. 4. ..... this is evinced from the 35th report of the law commission, the relevant portions of which are extracted below: the issue of abolition or retention has to be decided on a balancing of the various arguments for and against retention. ..... as seen from the objects and reasons of the act 31 of 1985, terrorists had been indulging in wanton killings, arson, looting of properties and other heinous crimes mostly in punjab and chandigarh and then slowly they expanded their activities to other parts of the country i.e. ..... the campaign for the abolition of capital punishment led to the introduction of a bill in the lok sabha in 1956 but the same was rejected on 23.11.1956. .....

Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and anr Vs. State of Nct of Delhi

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... it is difficult to rule out the validity of, or the strength behind, many of the arguments for abolition not does, the commission treat lightly the argument based on the irrevocability of the sentence of death, the need for a modern approach, the severity of capital punishment and the strong feeling shown by certain sections of public opinion in stressing deeper questions of human values. ..... having regard, however, to the conditions in india, to the variety of the social upbringing of its inhabitants, to the disparity in the level of morality and education in the country, to the vastness of its area, to diversity of its population and to the paramount need for maintaining law and order in the country at the present juncture, india cannot risk the experiment of abolition of capital punishment. 4. ..... this is evinced from the 35th report of the law commission, the relevant portions of which are extracted below: the issue of abolition or retention has to be decided on a balancing of the various arguments for and against retention. ..... as seen from the objects and reasons of the act 31 of 1985, terrorists had been indulging in wanton killings, arson, looting of properties and other heinous crimes mostly in punjab and chandigarh and then slowly they expanded their activities to other parts of the country i.e. ..... the campaign for the abolition of capital punishment led to the introduction of a bill in the lok sabha in 1956 but the same was rejected on 23.11.1956. .....

Prakash Dhawal Khairnar (Patil) Vs. State of Maharashtra

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2002SC340; 2002(1)ALD(Cri)245; 2002(1)ALT(Cri)173; 2002CriLJ928; 2002(1)Crimes18(SC); JT2001(Suppl2)SC243; 2001(8)SCALE482; (2002)2SCC35; 2002(1)LC137(SC)

..... taking the cue from the english legislation on abolition, we may suggest that life imprisonment which strictly means imprisonment for the whole of the man's life, but in practice amounts to incarceration for a period between 10 and 14 years may, at the option of the convicting court, be subject to the condition that the sentence of imprisonment shall last as long as life lasts where there are exceptional indications of murderous recidivism and the community cannot run the risk of the convict being at large. ..... from his confessional statement it is clear that after committing the five murders, when his father was removing all the evidence from the scene of offence, like wiping the gun with a handkerchief, putting the cartridge belt in the godrej cupboard, then going to the devghar and going to wc, he (sandip patil) had ample opportunity of running out of the house or making hue and cry or informing someone, but he did not do so. ..... 1000/- in default of payment of fine to further undergo imprisonment for six months; (3) for the offence punishable under section 25(1)(b)(a) read with section 3 of the arms act, read with section 120-b of ipc- -to ri for three years and to pay a fine of rs. ..... state of punjab : 1979crilj1058 :-'the sentences of death in the present appeal are liable to be reduced to life imprisonment. .....

Dalbir Singh and ors. Vs. State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1962SC1106a; 1979CriLJ1058; (1979)3SCC745; [1979]3SCR1059

..... taking the cue from the english legislation on abolition, we may suggest that life imprisonment which strictly means imprisonment for the whole of the man's life, but in practice amounts to incarceration for a period between 10 and 14 years may, at the option of the convicting court, be subject to the condition that the sentence of imprisonment shall last as long as life lasts where there are exceptional indications of murderous recidivism and the community cannot run the risk of the convict being at ..... murders in the punjab have been caused by social bungling regarding turns of water which tragically convert the passion for production of the farmer into passion for removal of the obstructor by murder ..... timely vigilance of policing agencies to nip in the bud burgeoning confrontations and prompt and potent enforcement of the arms act the failure to do which makes weapons freely available also account for escalating violence, the social autospsy of murders is more significant than the medical post-mortem of cadavers or the forensic close-up of crime after it has ..... shanti parva of the mahabharata, prince satyavana; in the discussion on the capital penalty says:destruction of the individual by the king can never be a virtuous act. ..... counting the casualties is not the main criterion for sentencing to death; nor recklessness in the act of ..... the dastardly act of the appellants resulted in the loss of three ..... economic offender, may be jeopardizing societal existence by his act of murder. .....

Ahmad Hafiz Khan Vs. Mohammad Hasan Khan

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC354; 1963MhLJ628(SC); [1964]2SCR191

..... , where it was held that after the abolition act an attachment of the proprietary share in the village including the sir and khudkasht lands appurtenant thereto made before the abolition act got transferred to the home-farm after the appointed date. ..... section 43 of the abolition act provides as follows :- 'any land which immediately before the date of vesting, was held in absolute occupancy or occupancy right or recorded as sir-lands, shall not be liable to attachment or sale in execution of a decree or order for the recovery of any debt incurred before the date of vesting except where such debt was validly secured by mortgage of or a charge on the absolute occupancy or occupancy land or the cultivating right in the sir-land.' 6. ..... ' thus by the operation of the abolition act, the proprietor ceases to be the proprietor of the estate or village including the sir lands appurtenant to the proprietorship. ..... on the passing of the proprietary interest to the state what remains to the proprietor is his cultivating rights in the sir fields and the abolition act provides in s. ..... in view of the provisions of the abolition act the proprietary rights in the village vested in the state. ..... the abolition act having deprived the proprietors of their proprietary interest gives some protection to them in respect of their new rights in the home-farm which has become the malik makbuza of the proprietor. .....

Mineral Area Development Authority Etc. Vs. M/s Steel Authority Of Ind ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... 24.1 on the other hand, the judgments of four other high courts, namely, punjab and haryana, orissa, rajasthan and gujarat did not consider the controversy from the perspective of the constitutional entries and section 2 of the mmdr act, 1957. ..... of mines and minerals for individual gains by a few inamdars and also to prevent the huge loss of royalty by the state government and to give effect to the policy of the state government towards securing that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good and that the operation of the economic system does 322 section 6, up zamindari abolition and land reforms act 1950 323 maharashtra abolition of subsisting proprietary rights to mine and minerals in certain lands ..... for example, the uttar pradesh zamindari abolition and land reforms act 1950 vested all the rights of the proprietors in the sub-soil including mines and minerals with the state government.322 the maharashtra personal inams abolition act 1953 abolished inam rights, but saved the rights of the inamdars and jagirdars to mines and minerals. .....

In Re Article 370 Of The Constitution

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... with the terms of the bill: provided that a bill providing for the abolition of the legislative council may be introduced in the legislative assembly and passed by it majority of the total membership of the assembly and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the assembly present and voting: provided further that no bill or amendment seeking to make any change in: (a) this section; (b) the provisions of the sections 3 and 5; or (c) the provisions of the constitution of india as applicable in relation to the state; ..... within the state of assam.353 the state of haryana was carved out of the state of punjab.354 the state of chhattisgarh was carved out of the state of madhya pradesh.355 sikkim was admitted into the union of india in 1975 and was granted the status of a full state.356 uttarakhand (previously uttaranchal) was carved out of the state of uttar 348 article 3, constitution of india 349 mysore state (alteration of name) act ..... act, 1956 xii1956civil servants (removal doubts and xiv1956declaration of rights) act, 1956 government servants (held in detention) xv1956act, 1956 registration of deeds (validation) act, xxi19561956 deputy speakers and deputy chairman s xxiv1956emoluments act, 1956 common lands (regulation) act, 1956 xxiv1956chowkidari act, 1956 xxxvii1956hindu succession act, 1956 xxxviii1956nurses, midwives and health visitors xli1956registration act, 1956 christian marriage and divorce act, 1957 iii1957282 part e representation of people act, 1957 .....

M/s. Trinity Infraventures Ltd. Vs. M. S. Murthy

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... 35 and 36 are office buildings at shahbad and bhalki, taken over by the government after the jagir abolition regulations and that after the states reorganisation, these buildings came to be located within the territorial limits of mysore state and that they had been handed over to the government of mysore; (ii) that since these properties have vested with the government by virtue of the provisions of the jagir abolition regulations, the parties were not entitled to claim the same as khurshid jah s mathruka; (iii) that item nos ..... even if we assume that it was inam-al-tamgha, then a question arises as to whether the same stood abolished after the advent of the hyderabad abolition of inams act, 1955 (act no.viii of 1955)17. ..... availed certain credit facilities from the punjab national bank, andhra bank (now union bank of india) and indian overseas bank and that as security for due repayment of the loans, third parties created an equitable mortgage by deposit of title deeds relating to plot no.10 in survey no.172 measuring acres 196.20 guntas in hydernagar village. ..... interestingly, the plaint was amended first in the year 1957 and paragraph 17a was inserted, more by way of response to the written statement filed by defendant no.1 in respect of the properties mentioned at serial nos.29 and 30 of plaint schedule iv. ..... adaptation order, 1957.168. .....

Kaushal Kishor Vs. The State Of Uttar Pradesh Govt. Of U.p. Home Secre ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... order where there will be social and economic justice for everyone and equality of status and opportunity for all, would welcome an enquiry by the court, so that if it is found that there are in fact bonded labourers or even if the workers are not bonded in the strict sense of the term as defined in the bonded labour system (abolition) act, 1976 but they are made to provide forced labour or are consigned to a life of utter deprivation and degradation, such a situation can be set ..... it also 46 air1950sc12933 arose out of a writ petition under article 32 challenging an order passed by the chief commissioner of delhi in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(1)(c) of the east punjab public safety act, 1949, requiring the printer and the publisher as well as the editor of an english weekly by name organizer , to submit for scrutiny, before publication, all communal matters and news and views about pakistan including photographs and cartoons, other than those derived from the official sources. ..... but, in reality the number of areas of disagreement has been greater resulting on one occasion, in ministers being whipped to vote in opposite lobbies and on another, in mps on the treasury benches attempting to amend the address on the queen s speech.131. ..... 476, has admitted 483 (1957). .....