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Suspension

of being debarred, especially, for a time, from a function or privilege; temporary deprivation of one's office or position, or again, state of being temporarily kept from doing or deprived of something. Dictionary meaning of expression 'suspend'

Promotion

also as a term frequently used in cases involving service laws means that a person already holding a position would have a promotion if he is appointed to another post which satisfies either of the two conditions

Office under the State

Office under the State, to be an 'office' a position or place has to satisfy three tests: (i) it must be a subsisting, permanent and substantive position; (ii)

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Misrepresentation

Misrepresentation, 'Misrepresentation' means and includes-- (1) the positive assertion, in a manner not warranted by the information of the person making it, of that which is

Dispute

Dispute, The meaning of the word 'dispute' is, 'a controversy having both positive and negative aspects. It postulates the assertion of a claim by one party and its denial by the

Malik or milkiyat

in the property. The word 'malik' which had a well-known connotation, when used in a Will described the position of the divisee as an owner possessed of full proprietary rights, including a full right of alienation, unless

For the time being

upon the context in which the phrase is used. It denotes indefinite period of time, meaning thereby, the position as existing at the time of application of the rules, may be amended or unamended. Therefore, to come

Electricity

the fundamental particles of which matter is composed called also electric charge and being of two types designated positive and negative the property of electric charge on a particle or physical body creates a force field which

Circumstantial evidence

produce a much stronger assurance of a prisoner's guilt than could have been produced by more direct and positive testimony. As a general principle, however, it is true that positive evidence of a fact from credible eye-witnesses

Astrology

science which claims to foretell the future or make predictions by studying the supposed influence of the relative positions of the moon, sun, planets and other stars on human affairs. It, requires study of celestial bodies, of

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