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Khandesh Spg. & Wvg. Mills Co. Ltd. Vs. The Rashtriya Girni Kamgar Sangh, Jalgaon [1960] INSC 1 (2 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 02 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 1 SC

Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946
Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)

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In ascertaining the surplus available for the payment of bonus according to the Full Bench formula the Industrial Court allowed the statutory depreciation but did not give any credit for the rehabilitation amount claimed. The Industrial Court estimated the amount required for rehabilitation at Rs. 6...

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Bhagwantrao Vs. Vishwasrao & ANR [1960] INSC 2 (12 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 12 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 2 SC

Headnote :

The question for decision in the appeal was the right of the revenue authorities of the State Government concerned, to resume certain lands known as 'patelki huq inam,' which lay in the jagir village of Nawabag situate in the ceded area of Berar. The lands were granted by the then sovereign...

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J. C. Jain Vs. R. A. Pathak & Ors [1960] INSC 3 (12 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 12 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 3 SC

Payment of Wages Act, 1936
Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Headnote :

The expression " the total sum directed to be paid " used in s. 17(1) (a) of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, properly construed, does not mean the total sum directed to be paid to each individual applicant. Consequently, an employer against whom a direction for payment is made under s. 15(...

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R. Muthammal & ANR Vs. Sri Subramaniaswami Devasthanam, Tiruchendur [1960] INSC 4 (14 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 14 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 4 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)

Headnote :

A Hindu was found to be a lunatic when succession opened. It was claimed that under the texts lunacy must be congenital to exclude from inheritance. Held, under the Hindu law lunacy as distinct from idiocy need not be congenital to exclude from inheritance, if it existed when succession opened...

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Nanduri Yogananda Lakshminarasimachari & Ors Vs. Sri Agastheswaraswami Varu of kolakalur [1960] INSC 5 (15 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 15 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 5 SC

Headnote :

The sole trustee of a deity in a suit prayed for a decree for the recovery of the arrears of income of a property alleging that the property in dispute constituted a specified endowment for Kalyanotsavam of the deity and the appellants who were trustees of the said property had committed default in...

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Ballavdas Agarwala Vs. Shri J. C. Chakravarty [1960] INSC 6 (15 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 15 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 6 SC

CrPC Section 248. Acquittal or conviction
Delegation of Powers
Delegation of Powers
Registration Act, 1908
Registration Act, 1908
Registration Act, 1908

Headnote :

The appellant was convicted of selling adulterated butter under ss. 406 and 407 read with s. 488 of the Calcutta Municipal Act as extended to the Municipality of Howrah on a complaint filed by the Sanitary Inspector on January 2, 954 which was signed in token of sanction by the Health Officer of the...

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Shivji Nathubhai Vs. The Union of India & Ors [1960] INSC 7 (19 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 19 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 7 SC

Headnote :

Rule 54 of the Mineral Concession Rules, 1949, provided as follows: " Review. Upon receipt of such application, the Central Government may, if it thinks fit, call for the relevant records and other information from the Provincial Government, and after considering any explanation that may be...

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M/S. Alopi Parshad & Sons, Ltd. Vs. The Union of India [1960] INSC 8 (20 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 20 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 8 SC

Section 222. Agent to be indemnified against consequences of lawful acts
Section 56. Agreement to do impossible act

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The appellants were appointed under an agreement in writing by the Governor-General as agents for purchasing and supplying ghee required for the Army personnel with effect from October 1, 1937. After the outbreak of the World War 11 there was an enormous increase in the demand of ghee by the Governm...

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Jagan Nath Sathu Vs. The Union of India [1960] INSC 9 (20 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 20 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 9 SC

Constitution of India
Preventive Detention Act, 1950

Headnote :

The petitioner was detained by an order of the Central Government under s. 3, of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950. The Advisory Board which considered the petitioner's case in accordance with the provisions of the Act did not recommend that the order of detention should be withdrawn. The al...

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The Superintendent, Central Prison,Fatehgarh Vs. Ram Manohar Lohia [1960] INSC 10 (21 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 21 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 10 SC

Constitution of India
Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)

The State of Bihar Vs. Shailabala Devi [1952] INSC 36 (26 May 1952)

Headnote :

Section 3 of the U.P. Special Powers Act, 1932 (XIV Of 1932), provided as follows:"Whoever, by word, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations, or otherwise, instigates, expressly or by implication, any person or class of persons not to pay or to defer payment of any l...

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Champalal Vs. Mst. Samarath Bai [1960] INSC 11 (21 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 21 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 11 SC

Indian Succession Act, 1925

Headnote :

By means of a will the respondents husband autliorised her to adopt the appellant, and the will was duly registered after the death of the testator. The relevant portion of the will ran thus:"Under this will, I am authorising the said Champalal Ishwardas to execute the same. I have appointed hi...

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J. V. Gokal & Co. (Private) Ltd. Vs. The Assistant Collector, of Sales-Tax (Inspection) & Ors [1960] INSC 12 (25 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 25 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 12 SC

Constitution of India

Headnote :

The petitioner who entered into contracts with the Government of India for the supply of certain quantities of sugar of foreign origin, placed orders with dealers in foreign countries and made arrangements for transporting the goods to Bombay by engaging steamers. When the goods were on the high sea...

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State 0f Bombay & Ors Vs. The Hospital Mazdoor Sabha & Ors [1960] INSC 13 (29 January 1960)

Judgement Date : 29 Jan 1960

Citation : 1960 Latest Caselaw 13 SC

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Baroda Borough Municipality Vs. Its Workmen [1956] INSC 70 (13 November 1956)
D. N. Banerji Vs. P. R. Mukherjee & Ors [1952] INSC 67 (5 December 1952)

Headnote :

The services of respondents 2 and 3, engaged as ward servants in the J. J. Group Of Hospital, Bombay, under State control and management were retrenched without payment of compensation as required by S. 25F(b) of the Industrial Disputes 867 Act, 1947. The respondents applied to the High Court for a...

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