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Reportable 2024 INSC599IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.8446 OF2024(Arising out of SLP (C) No.2997 OF2023 USHA DEVI & ORS. APPELLANT(S) VERSUS RAM KUMAR SINGH & ORS. RESPONDENT(S) ORDER1 Leave granted. This is the defendants appeal against the judgment and order dated 14.12.2022, passed by the High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi in Second Appeal No.349 of 2005, Usha Devi & Ors. versus Ram Kumar Singh & Ors., confirming the judgment and decree of the First Appellate Court, decreeing the suit for specific performance filed by the respondents.2. According to the plaint allegations, the facts are as follows:2. 1 The dispute relates to plot No.2339, situated at Purulia Road, Kumhar Toli, Gali No.2, Namkum, District Ranchi, which belonged to Kisun Ram, the grandfather of the appellants. CIVIL APPEAL No.8446 OF20241 However, the plot was sub-divided amongst the co-sharers, and plot No.2339B of Khata No.252 came into the share of Bihari Lal, succeeded by...
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NON-REPORTABLE2024INSC577IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL Nos. 8435 - 8436 OF2024(@ S. L. P. (CIVIL) Nos. 2733-2734 of 2024) MOOL CHANDRA APPELLANT VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ANR. RESPONDENTS JUDGMENT Aravind Kumar, J.1. Heard.2. Leave Granted.3. Appellant has laid challenge in these appeals to the Order dated 14.09.2023 passed by the High Court of Delhi in WP (C) No.5350 of 2022 and CM Appls. 16008 of 2022 and 46942 of 2023 whereby the Writ Petition and connected applications came to be dismissed and Review Petition No.305 of 2023 filed against said Order also came to be rejected on 03.11.2023 and consequently the Order dated 10.12.2020 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter 1 referred to as the Tribunal for brevity) came to be affirmed whereunder the Tribunal dismissed the application for condonation of delay in challenging the Order dated 22.11.2006 imposing the penalty of stoppage of one increment w...
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA2024INSC569CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No.890/2023 RAKSHIT SHIVAM PRAKASH PETITIONER(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND ANR. RESPONDENT(S) ORDER1 Aspiring employment in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the petitioner applied and participated in the selection process of the Civil Services Examination 2014, which commenced with a notification by the UPSC on 31.05.2014. The petitioner qualified in Prelims, Mains and also the Interview. He was called to attend the medical examination, conducted by the Central Standing Medical Board on 29.04.2015. After the medical, he was declared to be temporarily unfit, due to his Body Mass Index (BMI) being 31.75, which is higher than the prescribed standard of 30 BMI. The petitioner duly applied for a re-medical test which was scheduled to take place on 14.07.2015. 12. On 04.07.2015, UPSC published the final result, and the petitioners name did not appear in the list. It is the petitioners case th...
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2024 INSC624NON-REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO(S). OF2024(Arising out of SLP(Civil) No(s). 6427 of 2019) USHABEN JOSHI .APPELLANT(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS .RESPONDENT(S) ORDER1 Heard.2. Leave granted.3. This appeal takes exception to the judgment dated 5th April, 2018 passed by learned Division Bench of the High Court of Gujarat, dismissing the Special Civil Application No.5115 of 2018 preferred by the appellant and affirming the order dated 29th June, 2016 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ahmedabad(hereinafter referred to as the CAT), rejecting the Original Application No.50 of 2012 preferred by the appellant with a prayer that the respondents be directed to regularise her services in the Group D post. 14. As per admitted facts obtaining from record, the appellant was engaged as a water woman in the office of respondent No.3- Superintendent of Post Offices, Kutch Division, Bhuj, in February, 1986. Another ...
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2024 INSC567Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.of 2024 (Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.2011 of 2024) Sudeep Chatterjee Appellant(s) Versus The State of Bihar & Anr. Respondent(s) JUDGMENT C.T. RAVIKUMAR, J.Leave granted.1. Lex non cogit ad impossibilia means the law does not compel a man to do what he cannot possibly perform. The said maxim is being followed as an adage and with alacrity. We are constrained to refer to the said maxim on being pained to see that despite a catena of decisions deprecating the practice of putting onerous conditions for pre-arrest bail such orders are being passed without giving due regard to the binding precedents. Page 1 of 10 SLP (Crl.) No.2011 of 2024 2. The case on hand arises from an order dated 30.08.2023 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Patna in Criminal Miscellaneous No.57492 of 2023 whereby and whereunder the High Court granted provisional pre-arrest bail in Complaint Case No.1100 of ...
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2024 INSC572REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.7874 OF2024THE STATE OF GUJARAT APPELLANT Vs. M/S. AMBUJA CEMENT LTD RESPONDENT WITH CIVIL APPEAL No.7875 OF2024CIVIL APPEAL No.7877 OF2024CIVIL APPEAL No.7876 OF2024WITH T.C.(C) NOs. 12-13 OF2019 T.C.(C) No.14 OF2019 T.C.(C) No.15 OF2019& T.C.(C) NOs. 9- 11 OF2019JUDGMENT AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, J.1. The Appellant herein is the State of Gujarat which has challenged the judgment passed by Civil Appeal No.7874 of 2024, ETC. Page 1 of 23 the High Court of Gujarat dated 28.04.2016 in an appeal preferred by it which was dismissed affirming the order dated 08.06.2015 of the Gujarat Value Added Tax Tribunal Ahmedabad (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal), allowing the appeal of Respondent M/s Ambuja Cement, Ltd.2. The plea taken by the Appellant while challenging the judgments of the High Court and the Tribunal is that the Courts below have erred in holding that Value Added Tax and value of...
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2024 INSC576NON-REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL No.OF2024[Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.11919 of 2022]. DEVENDRA SINGH ...APPELLANT (S) VERSUS STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH ...RESPONDENT (S) JUDGMENT B.R. GAVAI, J.1. Leave granted.2. This appeal challenges the judgment and order dated 08th January, 2019 passed by the Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court in Criminal Appeal No.302 of 1987 wherein the Division Bench dismissed the Criminal Appeal preferred by the appellant-Devendra Singh and upheld the order of conviction under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC for short) and sentence of life imprisonment dated 17th January, 1987 as recorded by the learned Sessions Judge, Bijnor 1 (hereinafter referred to as the trial court) in S.T. No.166 of 1986.3. Shorn of details, the facts leading to the present appeal are as under:- 3.1 On 29th May, 1986, one Dharam Pal Singh (PW-1) lodged a written report at ...
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2024 INSC570REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL No.8355 OF2024(Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) No.12976 of 2015) City Montessori School Appellant versus State of U.P. & Ors. Respondents WITH CIVIL APPEAL No.8356 OF2024(Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) No.2612 of 2015) JUDGMENT ABHAY S. OKA, J.1. Leave granted. FACTUAL ASPECTS2 These appeals take an exception to the same judgment of a Division Bench of Allahabad High Court. The dispute is essentially between the City Montessori School (for short, the school) and one Shri M.M. Batra regarding plot no.90-A/A- 754, measuring 2238.5 sq. ft. situated at Maha Nagar, Lucknow (for short, the plot). It is not in dispute that the plot vests in the State Government. By a lease dated 4th January 1961, the Honble Governor of Uttar Pradesh, CA @ SLP (Civil) 12976 of 2015 etc. Page 1 of 16 through Nazul Officer, Lucknow, granted the lease of the plot to one Gursharan Lal Srivastava wh...
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Reportable 2024 INSC568IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition (Civil) No 335 of 2024 Vanshika Yadav Petitioner Versus Union of India & Ors Respondents With W.P.(C) No.362/2024 With W.P.(C) No.369/2024 With W.P.(C) No.368/2024 With W.P.(C) No.431/2024 With W.P.(C) No.379/2024 With W.P.(C) No.377/2024 With W.P.(C) No.376/2024 With W.P.(C) No.375/2024 With W.P.(C) No.425/2024 With W.P.(C) No.401/2024 With W.P.(C) No.415/2024 With W.P.(C) No.407/2024 1 | Pag e With W.P.(C) No.412/2024 With W.P.(C) No.383/2024 With W.P.(C) No.419/2024 With W.P.(C) No.406/2024 With W.P.(C) No.403/2024 With W.P.(C) No.414/2024 With W.P.(C) No.423/2024 With W.P.(C) No.427/2024 With W.P.(C) No.441/2024 With W.P.(C) No.420/2024 With W.P.(C) No.430/2024 With W.P.(C) No.446/2024 With W.P.(C) No.410/2024 With T.P.(C) No.1602/2024 With W.P.(C) No.382/2024 With W.P.(C) No.394/2024 With W.P.(C) No.384/2024 With W.P.(C) No.389/2024 With W.P.(C) No.417/2024 With W.P.(C) No.393/2024 With ...
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REPORTABLE2024INSC565IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) No.7898 OF2024 M/S. PRO KNITS .....APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CANARA BANK & ORS. ....RESPONDENT(S) WITH CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) No.3801 OF2024 MR. ZUHAIR MOHAMEDALI MERCHANT .....APPELLANT(S) VERSUS IDFC BANK & ORS. ....RESPONDENT(S) WITH CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024(SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) No... OF2024(@ DIARY No.16667 OF2024NILESH SHAH .....APPELLANT(S) VERSUS BANK OF BARODA & ORS. ....RESPONDENT(S) WITH1CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) No.9594 OF2024 SADHANA BHARAT RAI .....APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK & ORS. ....RESPONDENT(S) CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024(SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) No.OF2024(@ DIARY No.19108 OF2024 M/S. A. NAVINCHANDRA STEELS PVT. LTD. & ANR. .....APPELLANT(S) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA & ORS. ....RESPONDENT(S) AND CIVIL APPEAL NO . OF2024...
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