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Civil proceeding

arise out of civil suits or proceedings which are tried as civil suits, nor is there any rational basis for excluding from its purview proceedings instituted and tried in the High Court in exercise of its jurisdiction

Collective responsibility

collective responsibility is essentially a political concept. The country is governed by the party in power on the basis of the policies adopted and laid down by it in the Cabinet meeting. 'Collective responsibility' has two meanings:

Compelling reasons

a person already in custody implies that there must be cogent material before the detaining authority on the basis of which it may be satisfied that (a) the detenu is likely to be released from custody in

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Complaint

Post Office Act, 1898 but the 'complaint' contemplated under S. 55 one that initiates a prosecution on the basis of which the accused if found guilty is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to

Condition of service

such provisions.' In P. Balakotaiah v. Union of India, (1958) SCR 1052, the Supreme Court proceeded on the basis that a rule providing for the termination of the service of a railway official can be made in

Contract carriage

by him in this behalf on a fixed or an agreed rate or sum- (a) on a time basis, whether or not with reference to any route or distance; or [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7)

Ingrates

Ungrateful acts or words (such as spiteful comments from a freedom toward a former master) could form the basis for a return to a prior inferior status, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 786.

Political sufferer

Political sufferer, should be an identifiable who could be recognised as such on certain rational basis. A person to be a political sufferer must have suffered in any one of the five ways stated

Interlocutory order

to the High Court against that order, because that would be against the very object which formed the basis for insertion of this particular provision in S. 397 of the 1973 Code, Amar Nath v. State of

Suitable

under Regulation 5(2)(a) has to adjudge the suitability of an officer from his service records which from the basis of the preparation of the list and the list to prepared after consideration of the records would reflect

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