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Supreme Court Dismisses Tenant's Appeal in Bombay Rent Act Dispute Because Agricultural Land Lease Not 'Premises' Under Section 5(8). Material Date for Determining 'Premises' Status is Date of Letting, Not Date of Application, So Subsequent Conversion of Land Use Did Not Bring Plot Within Rent Control Act....

The dispute concerned the applicability of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates Control Act, 1947 to agricultural land subsequently converted to non-agricultural use. The appellant, Mst. S...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Corporation's Appeal in Municipal Valuation Dispute. Standard Rent Under Rent Control Act Caps Annual Value Under Section 127(a) of Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923....

The dispute concerned the determination of annual value for municipal assessment of premises No. 296, Bowbazzar Street, Calcutta, owned by the respondents. The Corporation of Calcutta, the appellant, ...

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Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Lessee's Suit in Quarry Permit Dispute; No Presumption of Mineral Ownership Without Record-of-Rights. Section 42(2) Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 Not Attracted When Record-of-Rights Not Produced, and Collector's Refusal Based on Controlled Area Found Valid....

The dispute concerned the right to quarry stones from certain agricultural land in Naraina Village, Delhi, which was regulated by the Delhi Minor Mineral Rules, 1938, framed under Section 155(1) of th...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Exporter's Writ Petition Challenging Reduced Import Licence Under Export Promotion Scheme. Licensing Authority's Discretionary Power Under Import Control Order, 1955 Upheld as Reasonable Restriction on Trade Under Article 19(1)(g) of Constitution....

The dispute arose from the Export Promotion Scheme introduced by the Government of India under the Import Trade Control Policy for the licensing period October 1958 to March 1959. The petitioner, a fi...

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Supreme Court Upholds State in Prize Competitions Tax Dispute Under Mysore Lotteries and Prize Competitions Control and Tax Act, 1951. Mysore Amendment Act 26 of 1957 Validly Imposed Tax on Prize Competitions Conducted During Stay of Central Act, Not Repugnant to Prize Competitions Act, 1955....

The Supreme Court adjudicated a constitutional challenge to the Mysore Lotteries and Prize Competitions Control and Tax (Amendment) Act, 1957 (Act 26 of 1957), which retrospectively imposed tax on pri...

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Supreme Court Upholds State in Article 20(3) Specimen Handwriting and Thumb Impression Case. Compelling Accused to Provide Specimen Writing or Impressions Does Not Amount to Testimonial Compulsion Under Article 20(3) of Constitution of India....

The Supreme Court of India heard two criminal appeals by special leave, one from the Bombay High Court at Rajkot and another from the Calcutta High Court, concerning the constitutional validity of obt...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Workers' Union Appeal in Bonus Dispute Against Electricity Company. Income-Tax Depreciation Rules Held Applicable to Bonus Calculation Under Full Bench Formula, Not Seventh Schedule to Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948, Resulting in No Available Surplus....

The dispute arose from a claim by the appellant workers' union for three months' wages as bonus for the financial year ending September 1956 from the respondent electricity company. The matter was ref...

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Supreme Court Upholds State in Excise/Royalty Matter, Holding Finance Act 1950 Did Not Repeal Pre-Constitution Royalty on Bricks Because Robkar Was Not Corresponding Law to Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944. Royalty Imposed by Former Patiala State Survived Extension of Central Excise Law as It Applied Only to Enumerated Goods, Not All Manufactured Goods....

The dispute concerned the validity of a pre-Constitution State law imposing royalty on bricks after the extension of central excise legislation to Part B States. Appellants, brick kiln owners, challen...

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Supreme Court Dismisses Appellant in Sales Tax Case by Upholding Constitutional Validity of State Notification. Essential Goods Act Declaration Does Not Retrospectively Invalidate Pre-Existing State Sales Tax Notification on Iron and Steel Articles....

The case arose from a constitutional challenge to sales tax assessments on iron and steel articles under the Madhya Bharat Sales Tax Act, Samvat 2007 (Act No. 30 of 1950). The appellant was a register...