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Supreme Court Dismisses Tenant's Appeal, Holds Section 84 Not an Alternative to Section 29(1) in Bombay Tenancy Act. Court Rules Invalid Surrender Does Not Entitle Tenant to Summary Eviction Under Section 84, Remedy Lies with Mamlatdar Under Section 29(1)....

The dispute arose under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948. Respondent 1, the landowner, owned two survey numbers in Panchmahals, Gujarat, of which the appellant was the tenant. On Ma...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal Against Quashing of Warrant Issued for Extradition of Fugitive Offender from Hong Kong Under Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881. The Court Holds That Arrest Warrant Under Section 82, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Has No Extraterritorial Operation and That the Extradition Act, 1962 Does Not Bar a Requisition to a Non-Scheduled Territory....

The Supreme Court heard an appeal by the State of West Bengal against a judgment of the Calcutta High Court which had quashed a warrant of arrest issued against Jugal Kishore More and restrained furth...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appellants' Appeal in Joint Family Partition Dispute - Concurrent Findings on Sham Partition and Joint Family Property Upheld. Held that a sham partition deed does not sever joint family status, later acquisitions from adequate nucleus are presumed joint family property, and alienations without consideration are not binding on coparceners....

The dispute arose within a Mitakshara joint Hindu family originally comprising two brothers, Goudappa and Apparaya, along with their wives, sons, and daughters. The family owned ancestral lands in two...

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Accused in Parcel Bomb Murder, Holding Approver's Evidence Sufficiently Corroborated. Principle of Issue-Estoppel Held Inapplicable as Co-Accused's Acquittal Did Not Automatically Discredit Approver's Testimony Against Appellant....

The appeal arose from a parcel bomb explosion at Phagwara, Punjab, on October 4, 1966, during a hunger strike by a labor union organizer, Ram Sahai. A registered parcel addressed to Ram Sahai containe...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal by Returned Candidate; Upholds High Court's Decision Setting Aside Election for Corrupt Practice. Speech Threatening Divine Displeasure for Voting Deemed Undue Influence Under Section 123(2) Proviso (a)(ii) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951....

Background: The case concerns an election petition filed by an elector challenging the election of the Swatantra Party candidate from the Banaskantha Parliamentary constituency in the 1967 general ele...

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Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Accused in Murder Case Under Section 304 Part II IPC for Exceeding Right of Self-Defence. Court Rules That Portion of Accused's Non-Confessional Statement Under Section 342 CrPC Can Be Relied Upon With Other Evidence, Distinguishing Narain Singh....

The appellant, Sampat Singh, was tried for murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code but was convicted under Section 304 Part II. The trial court and the Rajasthan High Court found that the ap...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal by Accused in Cooperative Society Forgery Case Where Nominee Not a Court Under Section 195 CrPC. Conviction Upheld as No Sanction Required from Registrar since Offences Under Sections 465 and 471 IPC Not Governed by Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960....

The appeal arose from a criminal complaint filed under Sections 465 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code alleging forgery of a minutes book of a cooperative bank. The Nagpur District Land Development Bank...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Mining Lease Renewal Case Due to Time-Barred Application Under Rule 28 of Mines Concession Rules, 1960. Rule 28 held mandatory and intra vires; application received less than six months before lease expiry could not be entertained....

The appeal arose from a mining lease held by the appellant company, which was due to expire on March 22, 1962. Rule 28(1) of the Mines Concession Rules, 1960 (as it stood in 1961) required an applicat...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Workmen's Appeal Against Award Rejecting Dearness Allowance Hike Due to Electricity Board's Lack of Financial Capacity. Capacity to Pay Held Relevant as Demands Exceeded Minimum Wage; Board's Statutory Development Functions and Inherited Deficit Considered in Assessing Financial Ability....

The case arose from an industrial dispute between 466 workmen of the Gujarat Electricity Board, Baroda, represented by the Saurashtra Vidyut Kamdar Sangh, and the Board. The workmen, originally part o...