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Labour Law — Workmen — Industrial Disputes Act, 1957 — Ss. 2(s), 2(a) and 10(1) — Development Officers of LIC — Whether workmen under the ID Act — Maintainability of adjudication proceedings before the Tribunal — Aggrieved...

Heard the further submissions of Mr. J.P. Cama, learned senior counsel for the petitioner and Ms. Rakhi Ray, learned counsel for the respondents.

Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.) is impleaded as a party respondent for passing appropriate orders in this application.

Customs — Imported item — If is a re-rollable scrap — Confiscation of goods — Appellant, a small scale industry, on whom penalty of rupees six lakhs has been levied — Technical expert opinion produced by the appellant that the...

Excise — Central Excise Tariff Act, 1944 — Schedule, Chapter sub-heading No. 3925.20 or sub-heading No. 3925.99 — Excise duty — Goods supplied by the assessee — If would be classified under chapter sub-heading No. 3925.20 or No...

Sentencing — Rape cases — Sentence — Reduction — Mitigating circumstances — What cannot be — The purpose and justification behind sentencing is not only retribution, incapacitation, rehabilitation but deterrence as well — Merely...

Election — Representation of People Act, 1951 — Ss. 123, 125-A, 8(1), 8(2) and 8(3) — Disqualification on conviction — Two issues raised for consideration, namely, (a) whether disqualification should be triggered upon conviction...

Income Tax — Income Tax Act, 1961 — Ss. 37 and 256(2) — Disallowance of commission — Benefit of — Entitlement of — Commission purportedly paid by the assessee to its commission agents for procurement of order for supply of liquor...

A. Criminal Law — Criminal trial — Sentence — Objectives — Four main objectives which the state intends to achieve are: (i) deterrence, (ii) prevention, (iii) retribution, and (iv) reformation B. Criminal Law — Criminal trial —...

Family and Personal Laws — Divorce — Ground of cruelty and desertion — Petition by husband — Decree — Refusal to grant — Appellant-husband and respondent-wife were both employed at different places — By their joint efforts, they...