Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1973SC834; 1973LabIC440; (1973)ILLJ33SC; (1973)1SCC120; [1973]2SCR405; 1973(5)LC370(SC)
..... he was appointed as an agriculture assistant in the punjab government in 1926. ..... it is therefore, clear that the state in the case of these three officers could not have applied a cut in the pension of the officers without giving them a reasonable opportunity to make their defence the rule which declares that even an administrative authority has to act fairly after giving an opportunity to the person whose rights and interests are affected by its decision is no more than an extension of the well-known rule which courts in england had recognised in the 19th century. ..... held that the power was subject to a qualification repeatedly recognised that no man is to be deprived of his property without his having an opportunity of being heard and that this had been applied 'to many exercises of power which in common understanding would not be at all a more judicial proceeding than would be the act or the district board in ordering a house to be pulled down. ..... acting on this severe criticism by a judge of the high court the watch committee, entitled under section 191 of the municipal corporations act 1882 to dismiss him on a charge of unfitness, dismissed him from service. ..... it was under this article that the government acted when it reduced the pension to two-thirds. ..... if there is power to decide and determine to the prejudice of a person duty to act judicially is implicit in the exercise of such power. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
Reported in : AIR1990P& H117; (1991)IILLJ165P& H
..... later, when the punjab state electricity board was established under section 3 of the electricity (supply) act, 1948, the same set of rules continued to govern the conditions of service of the petitioners even after coming into existence of the board. ..... 1926 of 1973 and 3552 of 1974 were preferred by non-diploma-holder line superintendents, challenging the promotion of the diploma-holder respondents on the basis of the quota rule, on the ground that the petitioners as also the respondents were in the same cadre, discharged same functions and duties as line superintendents and had identical pay-scales and yet the respondents on the basis of quota rule, were promoted as junior engineers by the board, which action was violative of articles 14 and 16 of the constitution. ..... 1, that is, the punjab state electricity board, is competent to discriminate between diploma-holders and non-diploma-holders linemen forming the common cadre of linemen having a common seniority list in promoting these linemen on the basis of quota fixed by the order of the state electricity board even though the requi-site qualification for promotion for lineman to the post of line superintendent is either the holding of diploma or certificate for electrical engineering from a recognised institute or the noh-diploma-holders having passed one and .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
Reported in : AIR1967P& H279; (1969)ILLJ679P& H
..... . (temporary) control of rent and eviction act of 1947 and naturally, therefore, the district magistrate, the commissioner and the state government were, in view of the matter entrusted to them under the act, held to perform their duties in a quasi-judicial manner shri pannu has also sought to distinguish the supreme court decision in the case of ram dial air 1965 sc 1518 by pointing out that there indiscrimination is writ large on the face of the statute, when sections 16 and 14 of the punjab municipalities act of 1911 are properly scrutinised.18 ..... body of article 302 of the mysore services regulations is exactly the same as rule 6.4(b) of the punjab civil services rules, volume ii, and what is note to article 302 of the mysore regulations is rule 6.4(a) of the punjab rules, with just this modification that in article 302 of the mysore regulations the phraseology used is that full pension is admissible not as a matter of course but rather to be treated as a matter of distinction, whereas in rule 6.4(a) of the punjab rules the phraseology used is that it is not to be given as a matter of course, or unless the service rendered has been ..... irrigation branch in the pre-partition punjab in november, 1926. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1963SC222; [1963]2SCR353
..... 14, two grounds have been urged in support of (i) that there is discrimination between the patiala state bank on the one hand and the other banks on the other and (ii) that after the merger of the pepsu union in the state of punjab under the states reorganisation act, 1926, there is discrimination between the law as administered in the territories of the erstwhile pepsu union on the one hand and in the other parts of the state of punjab on the other. 23. ..... 14 is that after the merger of the pepsu union in the state of punjab under the state reorganisation act, 1956, they continue to be in force in the territories of the erstwhile pepsu union, but have no operation in the other parts of the state of punjab and this, it is said, as a fresh ground of discrimination. ..... 42 of the east punjab holdings consolidation and prevention of fragmentation) act, 1948, to the additional director, the contention being that the minister or the secretary cannot abdicate his functions under the act to the managing director. ..... sub-sequently, under the states reorganization act, pepsu became part of the state of punjab and the said act continued to have force in that part of punjab which was pepsu before merger. ..... prior to the state reorganisation act, 1956, the pepsu union, and the state of punjab were two different states. ..... then under the states reorganisation act, 1956, the pepsu union became merged on november 1, 1956, in the state of punjab. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1999SC2468; JT1999(5)SC42; 1999(5)SCALE155a; (1999)6SCC464; [1999]3SCR1066; (1999)3UPLBEC1818
..... in this case the question for consideration before this court was whether the provisions of section 8 of the delhi and ajmer rent control act, 1952 (the rent act) applied to the transactions between the appellants and the new delhi municipal committee (the committee) constituted under the punjab municipal act, 1911. ..... there is on the record of the mahapalika a letter of the builder that there was a collusion among the mahapalika, builder, the lawyers and the officers of the mahapalika, the architect of the mahapalika, who approved the lay out plan, was also the architect of the lda, after the lay out plan was submitted to the lda the architect of the mahapalika himself okays the lay out plan as architect of the lda, which is then approved by the vice-chairman of the lda.9. ..... necessary modifications in the proposal for development to meet the objections raised by the vice- chairman; or(ii) submit the proposals for development together with the objections raised by the vice- chairman to the state government for decision under clause (d);(d) the state government, on receipt of proposals for development together with the objections of the vice-chairman, may either approve the proposals with or without modifications or direct the department or the local authority, as the case may be, to make such modifications as proposed by the government and the decision of the state government shall ..... poole corporation [1926] ch. 66. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1988SC1708; JT1988(3)SC78; 1988(2)SCALE53; (1988)4SCC324; [1988]Supp1SCR493; 1988(2)LC471(SC)
..... the contention before the privy council, on behalf of the punjab province, was that the provisions of the impugned act were traceable to item 21 supplemented, it need be, by item 2 of the provincial legislative list of the 1935 act ..... case the question was whether the punjab restitution of mortgaged lands act, an act of the punjab legislature, was void as being ultra vires of the punjab legislature. ..... after setting out the long title to the act and the object and purpose of the legislation in terms already described, the preamble to the act contains the following para:and whereas parliament has no power to make laws for the state with respect to the matters aforesaid except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the constitution.the third was the following passage from the judgment:we are afraid this contention cannot ..... state list list ii-provincial list entry 18: entry 21: land, that is to say, rights land, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenures in or over land, land tenures, including the relation of including the relation of landlord and tenant, and the landlord and tenant, and the collection of rents; transfer collection of rents; transfer, and alienation of agricultural alienation and devolution of land; land improvement and agricultural land; land agricultural loans; improvement and agricultural colonization. ..... this remission was declared by the high court to be unauthorised and inoperative as being in contravention of the provisions of the agra tenancy act, 1926. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : (1999)3UPLBEC2179
..... some of these are :(1) the calibre of the teaching staff;(2) a proper syllabus designed to achieve a high level of education in the given span of time;(3) the student-teacher ratio;(4) the ratio between the students and the hospital beds available to each student;(5) the calibre of the students admitted to the institution;(6) equipment and laboratory facilities, or hospital facilities for training in the case of medical colleges;(7) adequate accommodation for the college and the attached hospital; and(8) the standard of examinations held including the manner in which the papers are set and ..... examined and the clinical performance is judged.39. ..... the andhra university act, 1926 prescribed the minimum qualification of passing hsc, puc, isc etc. ..... . state of punjab and ors ..... punjab university, chandigarh, and anr. ..... punjab university, chandigarh and anr. ..... punjab university, chandigarh and anr. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : AIR1999SC902; 1999(1)BLJR591; 1999(1)CTC417; JT1999(1)SC247; (1999)3MLJ12(SC); RLW1999(3)SC425; 1999(1)SCALE245; (1999)2SCC745; [1999]1SCR377; 1999(1)LC410(SC)
..... the indian bar councils act, 1926 (38 of 1926), immediately before the appointed day (including persons, being citizens of india, who before the 15th day of august, 1947, were enrolled as advocates under the said act in any area which before the said date was comprised within india as defined in the government of india act, 1935, and who at any time) express an intention in the prescribed manner to practise within the jurisdiction of the bar council;(b) all other persons who are admitted to be advocate on the roll of the ..... enrolled as an advocate by the bar council of punjab & haryana under the provisions of the act in 1963 and he started his practice as an advocate at faridkot in the punjab state. ..... he was selected as a judicial officer by the high court of punjab & haryana and he joined judicial service in the year 1965 and got his licence to practise ..... the high court of punjab & haryana accepted the report and recommended his dismissal from judicial service to the government of punjab ..... have committed delinquency when he was a judicial officer but for that he was departmentally tried and punished and was dismissed from service on the recommendation of the disciplinary authority, namely, the high court of punjab & haryana. ..... tenure, complaints of bribery and commission of other misconduct were made against him by several persons to the high court of punjab & haryana at chandigarh. ..... posted as judicial magistrate-cum-sub-judge ist class at samrala in ludhiana district of punjab state. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Punjab and Haryana
Reported in : AIR1999P& H43; (1998)120PLR454
..... ) are running in the premises not meant for the purpose, in violation of the provisions of the capital of punjab (development and regulations) act, 1952 and the rules made thereunder, and thereby affecting the planned character of the city; and whereas in view of the aforementioned purpose, it is necessary, in the public interest, to lay down a scheme to regulate the allotment of sites to the educational institutions (schools) : now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 and section 22, of the capital of punjab (development and regulations) act, 1952, and the rules made thereunder the administrator, union ..... territory, chandigarh is pleased to make the folowing ..... (xi) 'trust' means a trust registered under the indian trust act, 1926. 4. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Supreme Court of India
Reported in : 2004(3)JKJ25[SC]; JT2004(8)SC77; 2004(8)SCALE348; (2004)12SCC634
..... he further said, 'the terms of employment of all the servants of the board are governed by the j&k; mata vaishno devi shrine act, 1988 and since its employees have duly been declared as 'public servants' under section 15 of the aforementioned act and, as such, its employees are not registerable as a union under the trade unions act, 1926 and cannot be said to be in employment in any trade or industry. ..... hence, it was contended by the counsel of the shrine board as well as the counsel for the state that, though the properties of the shrine and funds are under the control of the state, the properties were not vested in the state and so the 1988 act was a valid law. ..... , air 1986 ap 275 it was urged that when the governor exercises his power under the act in the capacity of ex-officio chairman, he does not exercise power as the executive head of the state and his role is limited to the traditional role to ensure proper management and responsible administration of the religious institutions or endowments and of their properties and nothing more. ..... it shall be open to the high court to take an appropriate decision thereupon, including the relegation of the parties to the appropriate remedy, if the high court upon interpretation of the provision of section 20 of the 1988 act comes to the conclusion that such alternative remedy is available to the writ petitioners before it.33. ..... relying on the judgments of punjab & haryana high court in hardwari lal v. g.d. .....
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