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Supreme Court Upholds Customary Puja Bonus Despite Ex Gratia Declarations. Puja Bonus Recognized as Customary Payment When Unbroken Series, Long Period, Uniform Rate, and Paid in Loss Years, Even if Employer Previously Labeled it Ex Gratia....

The dispute arose between Graham Trading Co. (India) Ltd., the employer, and its workmen regarding the payment of puja bonus for the year 1953. The company had been paying puja bonus to its workmen co...

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Supreme Court Allows Appeal in Bonus Calculation Dispute Involving Subsidiary Company. Service Fee Payment Under Technical Aid Agreement Held to Be Legitimate Expenditure, and Deduction of Bonus as Prior Charge Before Depreciation and Tax Ruled Improper Under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947....

The dispute arose out of a claim for bonus by the workmen of Crompton Parkinson (Works) Private Ltd., Bombay, which was initially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British company Crompton Parkinson Lt...

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Supreme Court Upholds Employer in Industrial Disputes Act Case on Go-Slow Misconduct and Dismissal Permission. Section 33 of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 Empowers Tribunal Only to Grant or Refuse Dismissal Permission, Not Substitute Lesser Punishment; Finding of No Evidence Against Sixteen Workmen Perverse....

The dispute arose between the appellant management, M/s Sasa Musa Sugar Works (P) Ltd., a sugar factory in District Saran, Bihar, and its workmen represented by forty-eight individuals including Shobr...

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Supreme Court Upholds High Court in Indian Evidence Act Case on Pedigree and Opinion Evidence. Pedigree Statement in Joint Petition and Conduct Evidence of Witnesses Held Admissible under Sections 32(5) and 50 of Indian Evidence Act, 1872....

The dispute arose from a suit for declaration of title and recovery of possession of certain properties filed by three plaintiffs, Nimai Charan Misra, Lakshminarayan Misra, and Baikuntha Pati, claimin...

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Supreme Court Upholds Zamindar in Agricultural Tenancy Ejectment Suit Under U.P. Tenancy Act, 1939. Criminal Court's Provisional Possession Order under Section 145 CrPC Does Not Confer Lawful Title or Defeat Revenue Court Jurisdiction for Ejectment of Persons in Unlawful Occupation....

The appeals arose out of six suits for ejectment instituted by the respondent zamindar against the appellants under Section 180 of the U.P. Tenancy Act, 1939 in the Revenue Court. The respondent claim...

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Supreme Court Upholds Setting Aside of Election for Undue Influence Due to Religious Command. Religious Head's Mandate to Vote for Candidate Interfered with Free Exercise of Electoral Right Under Section 123(2) Proviso (a)(ii) of Representation of the People Act, 1951....

Background: The appeal arose from an election petition challenging the election of the appellant to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from the Sirsa double-member constituency. The first respondent, an ...

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Supreme Court Examines Whether Bihar Government Scheme Can Impose Housing Obligation on Employer in Industrial Dispute. The Industrial Tribunal and Labour Appellate Tribunal Had Upheld the Demand for Quarters, Directing Construction of 15 Units Under the Scheme....

The case arose from an industrial dispute between The Patna Electric Supply Co., Ltd. and its Workers’ Union regarding the demand for housing quarters for employees. The Union demanded that the comp...

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Supreme Court Upholds Sister's Claim in Punjab Customary Succession Dispute. Court Rules That Custom Excluding Sisters Must Be Proved and That in Absence of Proof, Hindu Personal Law Applies Under Section 5 of Punjab Laws Act, 1872....

The dispute concerned ownership of agricultural land in village Sultanwind, Amritsar, Punjab, following the death of Sahib Singh in December 1918. His widow succeeded but was divested on remarriage, a...

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Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal of School Teacher Despite Finding He Is a Public Servant Under IPC Section 21 Clause 9. The Teacher’s Acceptance of Money to Secure a Job Did Not Constitute an Offence Under Section 161 IPC or Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 Because No Evidence Showed He Intended to Approach a Public Servant....

The State of Ajmer (now Rajasthan) appealed to the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Shivji Lal, a teacher in a railway school, who was prosecuted under section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860...