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Public prosecutor

SC 1788. Public purpose, is not capable of a precise definition and has not a rigid meaning. It can only be defined by a process of judicial inclusion and exclusion. In other words, the definition of the

Rate

Sundaram Co. (Private) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income-tax, AIR 1968 SC 124: (1967) 3 SCR 798. A Municipality cannot impose a tax, but it can impose rate on the annual letting value of the lands or buildings,

Plant

is not, in this sense, an ordinary word, but one of imprecise application, and, so far as I can see, has been applied to industrial and commercial equipment in a highly analogical and metaphorical sense, borrowed, unless

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Raw material

Ballarpur Industries Ltd., AIR 1990 SC 196. Raw material, is something from which another new or distinct commodity can be produced. When it is used in a taxing statute, it may have related meaning depending on the

Reasonable hypothesis

Reasonable hypothesis, before a person can be con-victed on the strength of circumstantial evidence, the circumstances in question must be satisfactorily established and the

Reasons to believe

Reasons to believe, a belief can be said to be founded on reasonable grounds only if there is something tangible to go by on

Reception order

person, not being a a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by inquisition, can be received or detained as a per-son of unsound mind except under the authority of (1) a reception

Reconversion

Reconversion, on 'reconversion' to Hinduism, a person can once again become a member of the caste in which he was born and to which he belonged

Rehabilitation

2 (w)] By rehabilitation what is meant is not to provide shelter alone. The real purpose of rehabilitation can be achieved only if those who are sought to be rehabilitated are provided with shelter, food and other

Equal protection

one person and another if as regards the subject-matter of the legislation their position is the same. There can certainly be a law applying to one person or to one group of persons and it cannot be

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