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2024 INSC760NON-REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.6274 OF2013M/s. Shriram Investments Appellant versus The Commissioner of Income Tax III Chennai Respondent JUDGMENT ABHAY S. OKA, J.FACTUAL ASPECTS1 The appellant-assessee filed a return of income on 19th November 1989 under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (for short, IT Act) for the assessment year 1989-90. On 31st October 1990, the appellant filed a revised return. As per intimation issued under Section 143(1)(a) of the IT Act on 27th August 1991, the appellant paid the necessary tax amount. On 29th October 1991, the appellant filed another revised return. The assessing officer did not take cognizance of the said revised return. Therefore, the appellant preferred an appeal before the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) (for short, CIT (Appeals)). By the order dated 21st July 1993, the CIT (Appeals) dismissed the appeal on the ground that in view of Section 139(5) of the IT Act, the revis...
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2024 INSC763REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.7257 of 2023]. SHASHI BHUSHAN ...APPELLANT(S) PRASAD SINGH VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR ...RESPONDENT(S) AND OTHERS WITH CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.8967 of 2023]. CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.10359 of 2023]. CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.18369 of 2023]. CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of SLP (Civil) No.22215 of 2023]. SLP (Civil) No.7257 of 2023 & Ors. Page 1 of 19 JUDGMENT SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, J.1. Leave Granted.2. The present batch of appeals arise out of judgement dated 16.02.2023, passed by the High Court of Judicature at Patna in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.3411/2022 (CWJC) along with other connected matters (the Impugned Order), whereby the Writ Petitioners who were the unsuccessful candidates in the Recruitment Process conducted pursuant to the Advertisement dated 08.0...
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2024 INSC757REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.11005 OF2024(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No.17383/2024) BANSHIDHAR CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD. APPELLANT(S) VERSUS BHARAT COKING COAL LIMITED & OTHERS RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT BELA M. TRIVEDI, J.1. Leave granted.2. The short question that falls for consideration before this Court is whether the Respondent Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) was justified in rejecting the Technical bid of the Appellant, while accepting the Technical bid of the Respondent No.8 - Company, and declaring it to be successful bidder, though the Respondent No.8 had not complied with the mandatory requirement of submitting the important documents relating to the qualification criteria as contained in Clause 10 of the Notice Inviting Tender (NIT) dated 16.08.2023, and thereby had failed to qualify the Eligibility criteria laid down therein?. 1 3. The Appellant-Banshidhar Construction Private Limited has assailed the Jud...
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2024 INSC759REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1031 OF2015VIJAY SINGH@VIJAY KR. SHARMA ...APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR ...RESPONDENT(S) WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1578 OF2017CRIMINAL APPEAL No.765 OF2017CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1579 OF2017JUDGMENT SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, J.1. On 30.08.1985, Neelam breathed her last in Simaltalla, PS Sikandra, District Munger, Bihar. The factum of her death was discovered in furtherance of the written report lodged by the Criminal Appeal No.1031/2015 and others Page 1 of 26 informant and brother-in-law of the deceased, namely, Ramanand Singh (examined as PW18 before the Trial Court1 ) wherein he alleged that Neelam was abducted by seven persons from their house in an incident which occurred at around 10:00 PM on the said day. On the basis of this information, an FIR bearing No.127 of 1985 was lodged at PS Sikandra and investigation was commenced which led to the filing of a chargesheet against the...
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2024 INSC750REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.________OF2024[Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.4353 of 2018]. K. BHARTHI DEVI AND ANR. APPELLANT(S) VERSUS STATE OF TELANGANA & ANR. RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. Leave granted.2. The present appeal challenges the final judgment and order dated 1st September 2017 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh, whereby the High Court dismissed the Criminal Petition No.5778 of 2016 filed by the accused persons, including the 1 appellants herein, under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC. for short) thereby seeking quashing of the charge-sheet in C.C. No.16 of 2014 on the file of Principal Special Judge for CBI Cases, Nampally, Hyderabad (trial Court for short).3. Shorn of details, the case of the prosecution is as given below. 3.1 K. Suresh Kumar (Accused No.1), the Sole ...
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2024 INSC754Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE/ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No 8629 of 2024 Union of India & Ors. Appellants Versus Rajeev Bansal Respondent WITH C.A. No.8631/2024 C.A. No.9270/2024 C.A. No.8632/2024 C.A. No.10238/2024 C.A. No.8640/2024 C.A. No.10239/2024 C.A. No.10240/2024 C.A. No.8644/2024 C.A. No.8641/2024 C.A. No.8650/2024 C.A. No.8645/2024 C.A. No.8643/2024 C.A. No.8649/2024 Page 1 of 112 C.A. No.8652/2024 C.A. No.8642/2024 C.A. No.8647/2024 C.A. No.8636/2024 C.A. No.8646/2024 C.A. No.8639/2024 C.A. No.8648/2024 C.A. No.8634/2024 C.A. No.8651/2024 C.A. No.8653/2024 C.A. No.8637/2024 C.A. No.8654/2024 C.A. No.8658/2024 C.A. No.8661/2024 C.A. No.8638/2024 C.A. No.8659/2024 C.A. No.8660/2024 C.A. No.8662/2024 C.A. No.8655/2024 C.A. No.8664/2024 T.P.(C) No.767/2023 C.A. No.9253/2024 C.A. No.8702/2024 C.A. No.8667/2024 Page 2 of 112 C.A. No.8666/2024 C.A. No.8843-8844/2024 C.A. No.8668/2024 C.A. No.8678/2024 C.A. No.8680/2024 C.A. No.8679/20...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC751IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.OF2024(Arising out of SLP(C) No.33094 of 2017) KHALSA UNIVERSITY AND ANOTHER APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER RESPONDENT(S) JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. Leave granted.2. The present appeal challenges the final judgment and order dated 1st November 2017 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in C.W.P. No.17150 of 2017 (O&M), whereby the High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the appellants inter-alia seeking a writ in the nature of certiorari praying for quashing The Khalsa University (Repeal) Act 2017 dated 17th July 2017. 1 FACTS:3. The facts giving rise to this appeal lie in a narrow compass. 3.1. In the year 2010, the State of Punjab framed the Punjab Private Universities Policy, 20101. 3.2. The Khalsa College Charitable Society, Amritsar,2 (appellant No.2 herein), which was in existence since 1892, submitted a proposal ...
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2024 INSC752REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.________OF2024[Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.1415 of 2024]. TARINA SEN APPELLANT(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ANR. RESPONDENT(S) WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL No.________OF2024[Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.1416 of 2024]. JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. Leave granted.2. The present appeals challenge the final orders dated 4th July 2023 passed by the High Court of Orissa at Cuttack in CRLMC No.34 of 2022 and in CRLMC No.33 of 2022, vide which 1 the petition filed by the present appellants for quashing of criminal proceedings came to be disposed of by permitting the appellants to urge all the pleas raised in the said petition before the trial Court at the appropriate stage. The appellants had approached the High Court under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC for short) praying for quashing of the criminal proceedings in T.R. No.28 of 20...
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2024 INSC756REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE/ORIGINAL JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.2948 OF2023Chief Commissioner of Central Goods and Service Tax & Ors. Appellants versus M/s Safari Retreats Private Ltd. & Ors. Respondents with WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NOS. 804 of 2022 & 1030 of 2022 CIVIL APPEAL No.2949 OF2023WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NOS. 1036 of 2022 & 90 of 2023 WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.846 of 2023 and WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.847 of 2023 JUDGMENT ABHAY S. OKA, J.FACTUAL ASPECTS1 The issues which broadly arise in this group of matters concern clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (5) of Section 17 of Civil Appeal No.2948 of 2023 etc. Page 1 of 91 the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (the CGST Act). There is a challenge to the constitutional validity of the said provision. There is a prayer for reading down the said provision.2. In Civil Appeal Nos. 2948 and 2949 of 2023, the first respondent is engaged in the construction of a shopping mall for the purpose o...
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2024 INSC753Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition (C) No.1404 of 2023 Sukanya Shantha Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors. Respondents 1 JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, CJI Contents I. The Writ Petition .................................................................................................. 4 II. Submissions ........................................................................................................ 4 III. Constitutional Interpretation ................................................................................. 6 IV. The Constitution of Emancipation, Equality, and Dignity ...................................... 9 V. The Contours of Article 14 ................................................................................. 17 VI. Non-Discrimination under Article 15 ............................................................... 23 VII. The Ban on Untouchability in Article 17 ...................................
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