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Feb 06 1967 (SC)

New Delhi Municipal Committee, New Delhi Vs. Indian Bank Ltd.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... dearsir, this is to inform you that your building mentioned at the back of this notice was under-assessed by mistake or fraud or misrepresentation, the details of which are given on the back side of this notice mark 'a' and the annual value for the year 1958- 59 is ought to be revised by amending the list under section 67 of the punjab municipal act, 1911, and this committee, has vide resolution no. ..... under section 67(1) of the punjab municipal. ..... time amend the list by inserting the name of any person whose name ought to have been or ought to be inserted or by inserting any property which ought to have been or ought to be inserted, or by altering the assessment on any property which has been erroneously valued or assessed through fraud, accident or mistake whether on the part of the committee or of the assessee, or in the case of a tax payable by the occupier by a change in the tenancy, after giving notice to any person affected by the amendment, of a time, not less than one month from the date ..... act that the committee will consider the question of amendment of the list and will hear objections .in -meeting room on 24/3/1961, at 10-30 a.m. .....

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Apr 10 1967 (SC)

Devi Das Gopal Krishnan and ors. Vs. State of Punjab and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC1895; [1967]3SCR557; [1967]20STC430(SC)

..... the effect of this judgment is that the stage prescribed under section 15 of the central sales tax act before the amendment and the prohibition against taxation at more than one stage contained in the amended section would automatically control the provisions of the punjab general sales tax act, 1948 ..... the decision on these appeals depends upon the interpretation of the relevant provisions of the punjab general sales tax act, 1948 (punjab act 46 of 1948), as amended by punjab act 7 of 1958, relating to three categories of goods, namely, oil-seeds, iron and cotton. ..... but it held that the amendment of section 5 by the punjab act 19 of 1952 cured the defect in the said act and had the effect of giving a new life to it. ..... cinema : [1965]2scr477 should be confined only to the provisions of the calcutta municipal act wherein this court found a guidance; (2) the provisions of the sales tax act, including the preamble, do not disclose any policy or guidance to the state for fixing the rates; and (3) the general constitutional power to impose taxes has no relevance for discovering a statutory policy under a particular act. 14. ..... the majority held in that case such a guidance was found in the monetary needs of the municipality for discharging the functions entrusted to it under the act ..... iyer relied relates to a levy imposed on cinema houses under the calcutta municipal act (33 of 1951). ..... , speaking for the majority said thus : 'it (the municipal corporation) has to perform various statutory .....

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Feb 07 1968 (SC)

Udai Ram Sharma and ors. Etc. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : [1968]3SCR41

..... " section 5 of the amending act repealed the land acquisition, (amendment and validation) ordinance, 1967 and further pro- vided that notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal act as amended by the said ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal act as amended by,_this act as it this act had come into force on the 20th january, 1967. ..... by a notification dated july 1, 1960 published by the delhi administration the chief commissioner, delhi, withdrew the land of 16 colonies from the acquisition out of the area covered by the notification of november 13, 1959 on the ground that their lay out plan had been sanctioned by the delhi municipal corporation and as per general decision of the standing committee, delhi municipal corporation, the petitioner was asked by the town planner by letter dated april 16, 1960 to submit a de- notification certificate to the effect that the land comprising the proposed lay out of his colony ..... 50/- per annum prescribed by the said act, and the validity of the imposition of any such tax shall not be called in question in any court;" (2)the hindu marriages (validation of proceedings) act, 1960 (act 19 of 1960) was passed to obviate the short comings in the hindu marriage act pointed out by the punjab high court in janak dulari v. ..... 1959 punjab 50). .....

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Apr 02 1968 (SC)

Keshavlal Jethalal Shah Vs. Mohanlal Bhagwandas and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1968SC1336; (1968)GLR868(SC); [1968]3SCR623

..... this court observed that the finality of the order of the controller attached thereto only when the order was made and therefore if before the date on which the order was made, by amendment of the act, the order ceased to be final, a revision application to the high court was competent.it is true that in the present case the order of the city civil court was made before the amending act was enacted. ..... on the assumption that by the amended act the high court was empowered to decide all petitions pending on the date on which the amended section came into operation, as if the amended section applied thereto, the high court entered upon a detailed investigation of the questions raised by the respondent in the petition - (1) whether the tenant proved that he was ready and willing to pay the standard rent and permitted increases within the meaning of s. ..... custodian evacuee property (punjab) and another : [1962]1scr214 distinguished indira sohanlal's case : [1955]2scr1117 and held that an order which had become final under a provision of the law could not be affected retrospectively under an amending act so as to deprive the order of its finality acquired under the original provision. ..... the respondents sued the appellant for a decree in ejectment in respect of shop municipal census no. .....

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Jan 30 1969 (SC)

Municipal Committee, Amritsar and ors. Vs. State of Punjab and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1969SC1100; (1969)1SCC475; [1969]3SCR447

..... the deputy commissioner informed the municipal committee that possession of its land should be handed over so that the state may be able to hold the fair under the provisions of the punjab cattle fairs (regulation) act, 1967. ..... the state legislature then enacted the punjab cattle fairs (regulation) amendment act 18 of 1968 which introduced by section 2(bb) a definition of the expression 'cattle fair' as meaning 'a gathering of more than twenty-five persons for the purpose of general sale or purchase of cattle'. ..... the court in that case held that the definition of 'cattle fair' was not intended to bring within its compass sales by private individuals outside fair areas: it was intended only to apply where in general, people assemble at some place for the purpose of buying and selling cattle and the number of persons exceeds twenty-five, and that act 6 of 1968 as amended by act 18 of 1968 'does not contravene the provisions of articles 19(1)(f) & (g) of the constitution'.6. ..... in other words, the effect of the amendment made in article 19(6) is to protect the law relating to the creation of monopoly and that means that it is only the provisions of the law which are integrally and essentially connected with the creation of the monopoly that are protected. ..... a number of petitions were again moved in the high court of punjab for an order declaring invalid the act as amended. .....

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Sep 12 1969 (SC)

Municipal Committee, Amritsar and ors. Vs. the State of Punjab and anr ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1970SC2182; (1969)2SCC823; [1970]2SCR375

..... -where a local authority has passed a resolution under section 3 or the state government has taken over management of aided schools of a local authority under section 5, the punjab municipal act, 1911, and the punjab district boards act, 1883, shall be deemed to have been amended in the manner specified in the schedule appended to this act with effect from the 1st october, 1957.section 52(1) of the punjab municipal act relates to the setting apart of the municipal funds and apply the same for different purposes as mentioned in clauses (a) to (f). ..... under section 6 of the act it is only after the local authority has passed a resolution under section 3 or the state government has taken over management of the aided schools under section 5 that sections 52 and 59 of the punjab municipal act would be deemed to have been amended in the manner specified in the schedule with effect from october 1, 1957 or from the date aided schools are taken over as the case may be. ..... the high court did not consider the true import and effect of the amendment made in section 59 of the punjab municipal act by virtue of which all rights and interests in the lands, buildings, playgrounds, hostels of the schools as also in the movable property like furniture, books, apparatus, maps and equipment pertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been transferred to the state government with effect from october 1, 1957. .....

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Dec 04 1969 (SC)

Smt. Gunwant Kaur and ors. Vs. Municipal Committee, Bhatinda and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1970SC802; 1970(0)BLJR252; (1969)3SCC769

..... a writ petition in the high court of punjab on december 16, 1968, alleging that the substance of the notification under section 4 and its corrigendum was not published in the locality by the collector; that the proposed land which was sought to be acquired for the mall road was not demarcated at site under section 4(2) of the act; that the procedure laid down in section 5-a of the act was not followed; that the notification was vague and since the land sought to be acquired was not fully described in the notification, the interested persons ..... 2030 sought to be acquired were specified by the mere reference to certain areas thereof the owners could not be deemed to have intimation that their plots were to be acquired; and that the notification issued by the government under section 6 and the plan accompanying thereto did not tally with the alignment of the road as originally intended to be laid or subsequently modified by the municipal committee.6. ..... by an amendment of the notification published on july 81, 1959, the holding of hari ram was shown in the aggregate as 8 bighas and 15 biswas. .....

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Feb 10 1970 (SC)

Rustom Cavasjee Cooper Vs. Union of India (Uoi)

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1970SC564; [1970]40CompCas325(SC); (1970)1SCC248; [1970]3SCR530

..... be said that they are not principles contemplated by article 31(2) of the constitution.the court then applied that principle to the facts of the case and held that the land acquisition (madras amendment) act, 1961, which provided that--(i) the owner of land acquired for housing shall get only the value of the land at the date of the notification under section 4(1) of the land acquisition act, 1894, or an amount equivalent to the average market value of the land during the last five years immediately preceding such date, whichever was ..... where the judicial committee dealing: with section 5 of the punjab alienation act which provided for the avoidance of benami transactions as therein specified which were entered into either before or after the commencement of the act of 1938 held that the same was ultra vires the provincial legislature because it would operate as a prohibition to affect the past ..... yasin's case by the bye-laws of the municipal committee, it was provided that no person shall sell or purchase any vegetables or fruit within the limits of the municipal area of jalalabad, wholesale or by auction, without paying the prescribed fee. ..... the public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights, as modelled by the municipal ..... court in the case of municipal committee of amritsar ..... : [1970]1scr400 and municipal committee, amritsar and ors ..... these relate to municipal tax and ground rent which are also taken into consideration .....

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Sep 24 1970 (SC)

K.A. Abbas Vs. the Union of India (Uoi) and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1971SC481; (1970)2SCC780; [1971]2SCR446

..... while it is true that the principles evolved by the supreme court of the united states of america in the application of the fourteenth amendment were eschewed in our constitution and instead the limits of restrictions,, on each fundamental right were indicated in the clauses that follow the first clause of the nineteenth article, it cannot be said as an absolute principle that no law will be considered bad for sheer vagueness. ..... - the petitioner then asked to be allowed to amend the petition so as to be able to challenge pre,-censorship itself as offensive to freedom of speech and expression and alternatively the provisions of the act and the rules, orders and directions under the act, as vague, arbitrary and indefinite. ..... we allowed the application for amendment, for the petitioner was right in contending that a person who invests his capital in promoting or producing a film must have clear guidance in advance in the matter of censorship of films even if the law of pre-censorship be not violative of the fundamental right.when the matter came up for hearing the petitioner raised four points : (a) that pre-censorship itself cannot be tolerated under the freedom of speech and expression, (b) that even if it were a legitimate restraint on the freedom, it must be exercised ..... khosla, former chief justice of the punjab high court. ..... reliance in this connection is placed on municipal committee amritsar and anr. v. .....

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Dec 15 1970 (SC)

H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao ScIndia Bahadur of Gwalior ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1971SC530; (1971)1SCC85; [1971]3SCR9

..... 366(21) before it was deleted by the constitution (seventh amendment) act, 1956, defined 'rajpramukh' as meaning:(a) in relation to the state of hyderabad, the person who for the time being is recognised by the president as the nizam of hyderabad;(b) in relation to the state of jammu and kashmir, or the state of mysore, the person who for the time being is recognized by the president as the maharaja of that state; and(c) in relation to any other state specified in part b of the first schedule, the person who for the time being is recognised by the president as the rajpramukh of that state, ..... court. moreover, if the president refuses to recognise the person by whom the covenant was entered into as the ruler of the state, he would not be entitled to the amount payable as privy purse under article 291.the dictum that the essential political character of the guarantee for the payment of periodical sums as privy purse is preserved by article 363, and the obligation cannot be enforced in any municipal court was not necessary for the purpose of the decision, and is, in ..... s.c.r. 773 was one where the appellant who was a civil surgeon in the employment of the state of punjab challenged the legality of the orders of suspension, revocation of leave, retention in service after the date of superannuation and institution of the departmental enquiry against him inter alia on the ground that the same were mala fide passed at the instance of the chief minister who was personally hostile to him in order .....

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