The dispute concerned compensation for land acquired for the Tungabhadra Project, specifically whether the respondent, Swami Satyanand Saraswati, as successor to Swami Nijananda, held subsoil rights t...
The Supreme Court examined constitutional challenges to the Gold Control Act, 1969 by pawnbrokers and money lenders who dealt in gold ornaments. The petitioners in Writ Petition No. 24 of 1970, a citi...
The Supreme Court heard a criminal appeal by special leave against a Delhi High Court judgment confirming the conviction of a Head Constable under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 and the Indian...
The dispute concerned the validity of sales tax on works contracts levied by the State of Kerala on a private limited company having its principal place of business at Mattancherry. The company was as...
The dispute arose from the Indo-Pakistan Agreement of 1958, under which part of Berubari Union No. 12, a group of villages in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, was to be ceded to Pakistan. Following a...
The appellants, joint owners of Bungalow No. 45 in Kanpur Cantonment, sought a writ of mandamus to compel the military authorities to execute a lease under Rule 27 of the Cantonment Land Administratio...
The dispute arose from a suit filed by Andhra Bank Ltd. to recover loans advanced to Godavari Sugars Refiners Ltd., of which defendants 1 to 3, as partners of Aid Co. Ltd., were managing agents. The a...
The appellant, Harkishan Singh, and the third respondent, Dr. S. S. Sekhon, were members of the Punjab Civil Medical Service, Class I, having been confirmed in that service with effect from 26 Februar...
The dispute arose between branches of a family over a house in Bihar, where the appellant claimed a half share based on a 1915 family arrangement. Rajkumar Singh had four sons: Lalji Singh, Amar Singh...
The case arose from a private complaint filed by a spectator after crowd disturbances at Eden Gardens during the second day of the India-West Indies cricket test match on January 1, 1967. The complain...
