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Supreme Court Upholds Detention Order Under Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971. Preventive Detention Justified Despite Failure of Criminal Prosecution Due to Reluctant Witnesses; Theft of Electric Copper Wires Disrupted Essential Community Services....

The Supreme Court of India dealt with a habeas corpus petition under Article 32 filed by a detenu, Mohd. Subrati alias Mohd. Karim, against the State of West Bengal challenging his preventive detentio...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal Partly in Industrial Disputes Act Retrenchment Matter. Ex Parte Appellate Order, Single Judge Clarification, and Second Labour Court Award Set Aside to Enable Fresh Adjudication of Writ Appeal on Merits....

The case concerned an industrial dispute arising from the retrenchment of six workmen by the management of Oriental Mercantile Agency. The Government of Madras referred the dispute to the Labour Court...

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Supreme Court Upholds High Court Dismissal of Election Petition for Vague Allegations and Refuses Inspection of Ballot Papers. Election petition dismissed due to inadequate material facts and unreliable evidence, applying Representation of the People Act, 1951 Section 116-A and principles on recount and ballot secrecy....

The Supreme Court adjudicated an election appeal under Section 116-A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, arising from the 1971 general election to the 31-Khagaria Parliamentary Constituency...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeals in Motor Vehicles Act Nationalisation Permit Dispute. Approved Bellary Scheme Under Section 68-D Excludes Private Operators on Overlapping Intra-State Portion of Inter-State Route Despite Reciprocal State Agreement....

The Supreme Court considered two civil appeals by special leave arising from a judgment of the Mysore High Court which had set aside a permit granted by the Mysore Revenue Appellate Tribunal and reman...

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Supreme Court Upholds Levy Sugar Supply Control Order, 1972 Fixing Zonal Prices Under Essential Commodities Act, 1955. Zonal Price Fixation Based on Representative Cost Schedules and Uniform Margin Held Valid Under Section 3(3C) and Not Violative of Article 14....

The matter arose from writ petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution filed by various sugar producers, cooperative societies and mills from Andhra Pradesh, North Bihar and Punjab zones challengin...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Mutt Succession Dispute Upholding Custom Requiring North-Indian Brahmin Senior Disciple. Customary Rule of Succession to Office of Mohunt Prevailed; Claimant Fails as Not North-Indian Brahmin Despite Agreement Recital....

The dispute concerned succession to the office of Mohunt of Sri Swami Hathiramjee Mutt at Tirumalai Tirupati, where succession was regulated by immemorial custom requiring that upon the death of a moh...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Revenue Appeal in Sales Tax Classification Dispute Over Food Colors and Syrup Essences. Edible Products Held Outside 'Dyes and Colors' and 'Scents and Perfumes' Entries, Taxable as Unclassified Goods Under Section 3 of U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948....

Background: The dispute arose under the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 concerning the rate of tax applicable to imported food colors and syrup essences. The dealer, M/s S. N. Brothers, Kanpur, sold food col...

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Supreme Court Upholds Allahabad High Court in U.P. Tenancy Act, 1939 Case Concerning Redemption of Void Usufructuary Mortgage of Occupancy Holding. Full Bench Decisions Applied to Hold Mortgagee's Long Possession Does Not Bar Redemption and Successor Bhumidars Entitled to Sue Under Section 91(a) of Transfer of Property Act, 1882....

This civil appeal arose from a dispute over land in Uttar Pradesh involving a void usufructuary mortgage of an occupancy holding. The appellants were legal representatives of the original mortgagee, w...