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Family and Personal Laws — Hindu Law — Marriage — The first wife of Chhatrapati died in the very early age and immediately thereafter the original Defendant 1 Phoolbasa Bai started living with Chhatrapati as his second wife — No...

A. Excise — Central Excise and Salt Act — Ss. 4(1)(a) proviso (iii) — Sales made to related persons — S. 4 as it stood after the Amendment Act of 1973 but before the Amendment Act of 2000 applicable — Applicability of proviso —...

Constitution of India — Art. 141 — Mines and Minerals — Generally — Decision rendered by the Apex court during the pendency of the writ petition — Binding on the High Court — Scheme (2004-2005) for sale of coal by electronic...

Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — Or. XIV R. 2 — S. 9-A (as amended by Maharashtra Amendment Act) — Maintainability of suit — Deciding the issue of jurisdiction at the time of granting or vacating the interim relief — Bar of...

A. Sales Tax and VAT — Sales Tax Act, 1969 — S. 55-A — Rate of composition payable under Government of Gujarat Noti. dt. 18-10-1993 — Entry 5 of the Schedule to the Noti. dt. 18-10-1993 issued under S. 55-A — Works Contract —...

Penal Code, 1860 — S. 304B — Dowry death — Conviction — Allegation that husband and in-laws of deceased harassed her in connection with demand of dowry and gave poison to her in greed of getting more dowry — PW 1, father of...

A. Public Accountability, Vigilance and Prevention of Corruption — Conviction of Public Servant — Punishment — Imposition of — Theory of reformation — Penal philosophy of deterrence — Discretion of court — Restriction on — There...

Contract and Specific Relief — Specific Relief Act, 1963 — Ss. 16(c) and 19(b) — Agreement to sell — Specific performance — Suit for — Readiness and willingness to perform — Time, whether essence of contract — Defendants 1 to 11...

The challenge in this appeal is against the following operative directions passed by the High Court of Madras in the Writ Petition filed by the respondent No. 1:

We have gone through the judgment rendered by the Division bench of the Calcutta High Court and find ourselves in agreement with a view taken by the High Court in the said judgment. Suffice it to say that the appellant herein had...