Background — The appeal concerned the legal character of properties originally dedicated by one Purushottam under a registered deed of trust dated 17 March 1919. Purushottam, having earned and purch...
The dispute arose out of doubts regarding the propriety of holding the Presidential election before the completion of general elections throughout India. Two petitioners filed separate petitions befor...
The Supreme Court decided a group of petitions challenging an order that extended the Central Government's management of certain sugar mills. The original order, dated November 5, 1955, was issued und...
The Supreme Court of India considered a criminal appeal arising from the conviction of a mutawalli under the Bihar Waqfs Act, 1947. The appellant was the mutawalli of Gholam Yahia Waqf Estate and had ...
The dispute concerned the computation of capital employed for excess profits tax purposes of an insurance company carrying on life, fire, marine, and general insurance business, specifically in relati...
The Supreme Court of India heard a criminal appeal by special leave against the summary dismissal by the Patna High Court of a writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. Th...
The appeals arose out of the same occurrence and were directed against the judgment and order dated July 25, 1956, of the Madras High Court, which confirmed the death sentence passed on the first appe...
The Supreme Court heard an appeal by the Collector of Malabar against a Madras High Court judgment that had released the respondent assessee from detention in a habeas corpus proceeding. The dispute a...
The case involved criminal appeals by special leave under Article 136 of the Constitution against conviction and death sentence for murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The appellants we...
This case concerned a challenge to the validity of a reference made by the Government under the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, to the Industrial Tribunal. The appellant, The Newspapers Ltd., empl...
