Caselaw | Supreme Court Judgements of october 1959

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India General Navigation and Railway Co. Ltd. Vs. Their Workmen [1959] INSC 122 (14 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 14 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 122 SC

Constitution of India
Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
IPC Section 143. Punishment
IPC Section 188. Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant

Headnote :

It was a contradiction in terms to say that a strike in a public utility service, which was clearly illegal, could also be justified. The law does not contemplate such a position nor is it warranted by any distinction made by the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. It should be clearly understood by work...

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The Dunlop Rubber Co. (India) Ltd. Vs. Workmen & Ors [1959] INSC 123 (16 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 16 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 123 SC

Headnote :

The appellant company was an all-India concern and carried on the major part of its business in Calcutta. Its clerical and non-clerical staff in Bombay raised disputes relating to gratuity and age of retirement and contended that the scale of gratuity for both the clerical and non-clerical staff pro...

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Messrs. Brahmachari Research Institute Vs. Its Workmen [1959] INSC 124 (16 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 16 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 124 SC

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Headnote :

The retrenched workmen of the appellant concern who were paid compensation as provided in s 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, claimed that they were entitled to be paid in addition gratuity under the gratuity scheme in force in the appellant concern as modified by the award of the industrial...

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The Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. Vs. The Workmen & ANR [1959] INSC 125 (16 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 16 Nov 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 125 SC

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Headnote :

Section 25F(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, provided: "No workman employed in any industry who has been in continuous service for not less than one year under an employer shall be retrenched by that employer until ... (b) the workman has been paid, at the time of retrenchment, compensa...

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N. R. Ghose Alias Nikhil Ranjan Ghose Vs. The State of West Bengal [1959] INSC 126 (27 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 27 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 126 SC

CrPC Section 403. Option of court to hear parties
CrPC Section 439. Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail
IPC Section 409. Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent

Kedar Nath Bajoria Vs. The State of West Bengal [1953] INSC 46 (22 May 1953)

Headnote :

A complaint was filed against the appellant and one Bose before the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Darjeeling. Under the W.B. Criminal Law Amendment (Special Courts) Act, 1949 the case was allotted to Mr. Dutta Gupta, Special judge, Alipur, who by order dated July 11, 1951, acquitted the appellant but c...

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K. Satwant Singh Vs. The State of Punjab [1959] INSC 127 (28 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 28 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 127 SC

CrPC Section 197. Prosecution of Judges and public servants
CrPC Section 239. When accused shall be discharged
Government of India Act, 1935
Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)
IPC Section 420. Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property
IPC Section 63. Amount of fine

Ronald Wood Mathams Vs. State of West Bengal [1954] INSC 51 (22 April 1954)

Headnote :

The appellant, who had been a contractor in Burma, in response to an advertisement issued in August, 1942, by the evacuee Government of Burma, then functioning at Simla, inviting claims from contractors for works of construction and repairs executed by them, submitted claims aggregating to several l...

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Union of India Vs. Amar Singh [1959] INSC 128 (28 October 1959)

Judgement Date : 28 Oct 1959

Citation : 1959 Latest Caselaw 128 SC

Indian Contract Act, 1872
Section 148. Bailment, bailor and bailee defined.
Section 151. Care to be taken by bailee
Section 161. Bailee’s responsibility when goods are not duly returned
Section 194. Relation between principal and person duly appointed by agent to act in business of agency
Section 71. Responsibility of finder of goods

Headnote :

The respondent booked certain goods on September 4, 1947, with the N. W. Railway at Quebec in Pakistan to New Delhi. The wagon containing the goods was received at the Indian border station of Khem Karan on November 1, 1947, duly sealed and labelled indicating its destination as New Delhi. It...

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