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from any constitutional infirmity on ground of violation of Articles 14 and 19. It is within the legislative competence of Parliament, Union of India v. Bombay Tyre International Ltd., AIR 1984 SC 420: (1984) 1 SCC 467:
Prosecution
274. Means a criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a person charged with crime', Jasbir Singh
Public interest
a government servant who with the passage of years has pre-maturely ceased to possess the standard of efficiency, competence and utility called for by the government service to which he belongs. No stigmas or implication of misbehaviour
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Question of fact
in evidence, that question of fact must be decided by the judge. So in questions as to the competence of a witness to be sworn. See VOIR DIRE; WITNESS; OATH. The law of a foreign country is
Quorum
for their meetings and if it is not fixed by the authority which constituted it then it is competent for the committee itself to fix the quorum as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure.
Quorum of two Directors
Quorum of two Directors, means a quorum of two directors who are competent to transact and vote on the business before the Board of Directors, Needle Industries (India) Ltd. v. Needle
Reasonable opportunity of showing cause
Article 311(2) of the Constitution contemplates not merely opportunity to do so at enquiry stage but also when competent authority as result of enquiry, proposes to inflict one of three punishments mentioned in article on delinquent servant,
Rectus in curia
against him; also said of an outlaw when he had reversed his outlawry. Free from charge or offense; competent to appear in court and entitled to benefit of law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Repeal
about by repugnant legislation, without even any reference to the Act intended to be repealed, for once legislative competence to effect a repeal is posited, it matters little whether this is done expressly or inferentially or by
Sentenced to imprisonment
Sentenced to imprisonment, the words 'sentenced to imprisonment' occurring after the words 'convicted by a competent court' in the second proviso do not mean 'condemned to prison on conviction', State of Maharashtra v. Chandrabhan,
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