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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 11948-11950 OF2016UNION OF INDIA & ORS. Versus .....Appellants E KRISHNA RAO & ORS ETC. ETC. .....Respondents JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J1The appeals arise from a judgment of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh dated 20 March 2014. The High Court rejected a challenge to an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal1 directing the appellants to provide to the Respondents all benefits of service and to consider their cases for promotions in accordance with the Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service Rules 1990.2 1 The Tribunal 2 The Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service Rules 1990 are referred to in this judgment as the Rules. 2 The First Respondent was engaged as a TV News Correspondent on 2 contract for a period of five years on 6 August 1988. The second Respondent was engaged as a TV Assistant News Correspondent on contract on 12 August 1988. The Rules came into effect on 5 November ...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.30621 OF2011JARNAIL SINGH & OTHERS VERSUS LACHHMI NARAIN GUPTA & OTHERS WITH PETITIONERS RESPONDENTS SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.31735 OF2011SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.35000 OF2011SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.4831 OF2012SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.2839 OF2012SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.5860 OF2012SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.5859 OF2012SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.30841 OF2012SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.8327 OF20141 SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.6915 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS.16710-16711 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.33163 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.23344 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS.23339-23340 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.21343 OF2015CIVIL APPEAL NOS.4562-4564 OF2017SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.25191 OF2015CIVIL APPEAL NO.4880 OF2017CIVIL APPEAL NOS.4878-4879 OF2017S...
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.494 OF2012JUSTICE K.S. PUTTASWAMY (RETD.) AND ANOTHER .....PETITIONER(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS .....RESPONDENT(S) WITH TRANSFERRED CASE (CIVIL) No.151 OF2013TRANSFERRED CASE (CIVIL) No.152 OF2013WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.833 OF2013WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.829 OF2013TRANSFERRED PETITION (CIVIL) No.1797 OF2013WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.932 OF2013TRANSFERRED PETITION (CIVIL) No.1796 OF2013CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No.144 OF2014WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.494 OF2012IN TRANSFERRED PETITION (CIVIL) No.313 OF2014TRANSFERRED PETITION (CIVIL) No.312 OF2014SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No.2524 OF2014WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.37 OF2015Writ Petition (Civil) No.494 of 2012 & c onnected matters Page 1 of 567 WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.220 OF2015CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No.674 OF2015WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.829 OF2013TRANSFERRED PETITION (CIVIL) No.921 OF2015CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No.470 OF2015WRIT...
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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION MA NOS13941395 OF2017IN SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS83988399 OF2005SUPER BAZAR KARAMCHARI DALIT SANGH AND ORS ..Petitioners VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ..Respondents WITH MA NOS677678 OF2018IN SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS83988399 OF2005WITH CONT.PETITION (C) NOS866867 OF2018IN SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS83988399 OF2005WITH2MA NOS18621863 OF2018IN SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS83988399 OF2005AND WITH CONT.PETITION (C) NOS12071208 OF2018IN SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NOS83988399 OF2005JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J1 The genesis of this set of proceedings dates back a decade, when steps were initiated for protecting the interests of the employees and other stakeholders of Super Bazar, a Multi-State Cooperative Society, through a 3 revival scheme under the supervision of this Court. Super Bazar incurred huge losses on account of irregularities in management and was unable to make pa...
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Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO(S). 77107713 OF2013P. RADHA BAI AND ORS. APPELLANT(S) P. ASHOK KUMAR AND ANR. RESPONDENT(S) VERSUS JUDGMENT N.V. RAMANA, J.1. These appeals are filed, aggrieved by the judgment and order dated 18.06.2012 in the Civil Revision Petition Nos. 2151, 2246, 2383 and 2458 of 2012 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad.2. An interesting question of law arises in this batch of petitions, concerning the applicability of Section 17 of the Limitation Act, 1963 [Limitation Act]. for condonation of a delay caused on the account of alleged fraud played on the objector (party challenging the award) beyond the period 1 prescribed under Section 34 (3) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996 [Arbitration Act]..3. The facts which give rise to this question fall into a narrow compass. Originally one Mr. P. Kishan Lal carried on business and acquired several properties. On his death, ...
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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION MA NO1607OF2018IN IA NOS.14870-14871 OF2018IN WRIT PETITION (C) NO19OF2018TEHSEEN POONAWALLA ..PETITIONER VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ANR. ..RESPONDENT AND IN THE MATTER OF : ADMIRAL MR LAXMINARAYAN RAMDAS (RETD.) AND IN THE MATTER OF : MS INDIRA JAISING ORDER Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J1Ms Indira Jaising has moved a Miscellaneous Application seeking the following reliefs :2. a) Issue appropriate order or direction expunging/deleting the present remarks made against intervenor/applicant herein the counsel/applicant herein amounted to contempt or prima facie contempt of court, namely the following : counsel the conduct of the that for 74. The present case is indeed a case in point. Repeatedly, counsel for the petitioners and intervenors have attempted to inform the court that they have no personal agenda and that they have instituted these proceedings to protect judicial independence. An aura of good faith has been so...
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION REPORTABLE WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.330 OF2016Lok Prahari, through its General Secretary S.N. Shukla .... Petitioner Versus Election Commission of India & Ors. .....Respondents JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J1The petitioner, Lok Prahari, is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 with objects pertaining to public governance and administration. It has invoked the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution, in the present Public Interest Litigation through its General Secretary, who appeared in person. The 1 following amongst other reliefs have been sought:1. Declare that since the law does not provide for stay of conviction, even in case of stay of conviction by the appellate court for an offence attracting disqualification under Section 8 of RP Act, 1951, any such stay order does not have the effect of wiping out the disqualification and reviving the membership with retrospecti...
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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.408 OF2017JAGJIT SINGH ...APPELLANT(S) VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB ...RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT K.M. JOSEPH, J.1. The appeal after granting special leave to appeal is filed by the appellant against the judgment of the High court of Punjab and Haryana affirming the judgment of the trial Court convicting the appellant under Section 304-B IPC but reducing the sentence from 8 years rigorous imprisonment to a period of 7 years under the aforesaid section. The appellant who was tried along with his parents and two brothers was acquitted of the charge under Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code by the trial Court. In view of his conviction under Section 2 304-B IPC, the trial Court did not find it necessary to record a separate conviction under Section 498-A IPC.2. We heard Dr. J.P. Dhanda, learned counsel for the appellant and Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, learned counsel for the respondent-State.3. There is no disput...
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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.9333 OF2018(Arising out of SLP(C) No.229 of 2018) Uttaradi Mutt :Versus: Raghavendra Swamy Mutt ..Appellant(s) ....Respondent(s) JUDGMENT A.M. Khanwilkar, J.1. This appeal arises from the judgment and decree dated 14th November, 2017 passed by the High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore in R.S.A. No.100446 of 2015, whereby the High Court was pleased to set aside the judgment and decree passed by the First Appellate Court and also that of the trial Court and relegated the parties before the trial Court, by allowing three applications filed by the respondent/defendant under Order XLI Rule 27 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (for 2 short, CPC). The High Court directed the trial Court to decide the suit afresh by giving its findings in light of the additional evidence adduced. The operative part of the order passed by the High Court reads thus: 25. Therefore, this Court cannot decide the substantial quest...
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1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS. (Arising out of S.L.P. (C) Nos.13040-13042 OF2018 OF2018Patel Ahmed Mohammad :Versus: ....Appellant Balwant Singh Rajput & Ors. ....Respondents JUDGMENT A.M. Khanwilkar, J.1. Leave granted.2. These appeals take exception to the judgment and order dated 20th April, 2018 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad, in Election Application Nos.2, 3 and 6 of 2017 in Election Petition No.1 of 2017. By the said order, the High Court dismissed all the three applications preferred by the appellant seeking dismissal of Election Petition No.1 of 2017 at the threshold. 2 3. Election Petition No.1 of 2017 has been filed by respondent No.1 challenging the election of the appellant to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) held on 8th August, 2017, by the members of the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat, on the ground that the appellant had committed corrupt practices of bribery and undue influence within the m...
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