The dispute arose from the closure of River Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., a company operating river services from West Bengal to Assam, which employed about 8000 workmen. Due to heavy losses and the 1965...
The Supreme Court heard a criminal appeal by special leave against the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court affirming the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Cod...
The case concerned challenges to a Central Government order accepting recommendations of a Wage Board constituted under the Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act...
The Supreme Court of India addressed the constitutional validity of the Tamil Nadu Additional Sales Tax Act, 1970, which imposed an additional sales tax of 5% on dealers whose annual total turnover ex...
The litigation arose from a long-standing dispute over seniority between direct recruits and promotees in the Income-tax Officers (Class I) Service. The Supreme Court, in an earlier judgment dated 16-...
Background: The dispute arose under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948, between a protected tenant's heirs and the landlord over agricultural lands in Maharashtra. The landlord sought...
This case concerned a partition suit over the assets of one K, who had gone to England in 1920 for higher studies in medicine and practiced there until his death in 1950. The dispute centered on the d...
The Supreme Court of India heard a criminal appeal against the judgment of the Allahabad High Court which had reversed the trial court's acquittal and convicted five appellants for murder, attempted m...
The dispute arose from the purchase and subsequent acquisition of an electricity undertaking at Chapra, Bihar. A licence for electrification was originally granted to Mahendra Prasad in 1932, assigned...
The Supreme Court considered, in an appeal by certificate from the Patna High Court, the jurisdiction of a Regional Transport Authority under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 to allow substitution of heir...
