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The appellant is engaged in the business of banking. It had been filing income tax returns claiming exemption from tax under Section 80P(2)(a)(i) of the Income Tax Act for the last 40 years prior to the Assessment Year in...

In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case we are of the view that the respondent should not have been granted backwages.

A. Interpretation of Statutes — Retrospective operation/Retrospectivity — Permissibility — Retrospectivity creates a given fiction — Therefore, unless there is express provision or it can be impliedly inferred from the plain and...

Education and Universities — Employment and service matters re educational institutions — Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973 — S. 31-A — Personal Promotion Scheme, 1984 — If applicable after the schemes of 10-9-1987 and 7...

A. Government Grants, Largesse, Public Property and Premises — Government Grants Act, 1895 — Lease of nazul land — Mortgage — When permissible — Where lease of nazul land was sanctioned under the provisions of Act, 1895 — Nazul...

A. Corporate Laws — Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 — S. 30 — SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 1997 — Regn. 3(1)(i), 10, 11 and 12 — Transaction of buy-back of shares —...

A. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 24 — Appointment of District Government Counsel — State, like any other litigant, must have the freedom to appoint counsel in whom they repose trust and confidence — The only expectation is...

Delay condoned in the substitution application filed in S.L.P. (C) No. 6873/2014 and the application for substitution is allowed.

Contempt of Court — Practice and procedure — Time to comply with the order — When granted — In the present case, order clearly indicated that licenses be issued to the applicants — Observed that an order passed by the Court is to...

A. Tenancy and Land Laws — Ceiling on land — Himachal Pradesh Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972 — S. 4 — Family — Entitlement — Though landowner may be a family, capable of holding property, consisting of husband, wife and three...