Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1989Mad149
..... yardstick groups which are to be treated as socially and educationally backward are to be identified to simplify the question : should membership of caste signify a class of citizens as being socially and educationally backward if 'caste' is adopted as the criterion for determining social and educational backwardness does it provide a valid test or it would violate article 15(1) which prohibits discrimination against any citizen on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.''26. ..... iyer, who delivered the leading judgment has held as follows : --'the film censor board, acting under section 5a of the cinematograph act, 1952 is specially entrusted to screen off the silver screen pictures which offensively invade or deprave public morals ..... : whoever in any public place or in any other place within public view burns, mutilates, defaces, denies, disfigures, destroys, tramples upon or otherwise brings into contempt (whether by words, either spoken or written, or by acts) the indian national flag or the constitution of india or any part thereof, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.explanation 1: comments expressing disapprobation ..... the problem of violence in the punjab, in west bengal and eastern states of india. ..... authorised the government to nominate a representative of the anglo-indian community to a state legislature in certain cases. ..... sending simultaneous intimation to the chairman .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : AIR1955Mad100; 1955CriLJ452
..... before the modification by statute of 1898 makes it clear that no oath can be administered to an accused and so he is not a competent witness on his behalf; on account of the peculiar circumstances of this country, the legislature had decided to depart from the common law rule by giving the court holding the enquiry or trial, power to putsuch questions to the accused at the close of the prosecution evidence as it considers necessary to enable him to ..... thus, it will be seen that the provisions (sic) the madras city police act, 1888, came into (sic)tence as a result of the factual back-ground (sic) out above and the legislature had to make a distinction between the police act intended purely for an urban area like the city of madras which was the ..... however, a statute that prohibits the occupation of agricultural lands by an alien ineligible for naturalization violates due process so far as it makes allegation of membership in a race thus ineligible plus proof of occupation of such lands the basis for shifting to those accused of violating the statute the ourden of proving that the alien is either a citizen or ..... west bengal ..... of this act wassummed up by sir bartle frere in these words: 'care had been taken to render the village police effective in every district simultaneously with the ..... not remember the month in 1952 during which he sold sandalwood ..... may 1952 and ..... 903 of 1952 registered on ..... (ramakrishna naidu) purchased 1 1/2 tons of sandalwood from him in 1952. he d. w. ..... 1952 ..... 1952 .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1971)2MLJ502
..... or class thereof may be bought or sold;(b) for regulating by licences, permits or otherwise the distribution, transport, disposal, acquisition, possession, use or consumption of any such article or class thereof;(c) for prohibiting the withholding from sale of any such articles or class thereof ordinarily kept for sale;(d) for requiring any person manufacturing, producing or holding in stock any such article or class thereof to sell the whole ..... during the pendency of the proclamation of emergency removes the fetters created on the legislative and executive powers by article 19 and if the legislatures make laws or the executive commits acts which are inconsistent with the rights guaranteed by article 19, their validity is not open to challenge either during the continuance of the emergency ..... state of west bengal : 1967crilj520 ..... statement occurs.equal treatment of unequal objects, transactions or persons is not liable' to be struck down as discriminatory unless there is simultaneously absence of a rational relation to the object intended to be achieved by the law. ..... that no person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of non-membership in a labour organisation, nor shall the state or any sub-division thereof, or any corporation, individual or association of any kind enter into any agreement, written or oral, which excludes any person from employment or continuation of employment because of non-membership in a labour organisation, was questioned. ..... 1952 .....
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