Criminal Law — Public Accountability, Vigilance and Prevention of Corruption — Erring Officials/Dereliction of Duty/Misfeasance or Malfeasance in office/Compensation/Relief/Costs/Probe/Punishment — Prevention of Corruption Act...

A. Corporate Laws — Company Law — Winding up — Recall of order of sale of company property to highest bidder — When permissible — Where official liquidator was directed to put the freehold land of the company to auction for sale...

Corporate Laws — Company Law — Lease to the company in liquidation — Whether lessor entitled to be party appeal before company court — Where lessor has already filed substantive application before company court which is yet to be...

Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — S. 482 — Quashing of proceeding — Inherent jurisdiction — Exercise of, in corruption case — Scope — Respondent who held post of General Manager, in Co-operative Bank, received a notice signed by...

A. Contract and Specific Relief — Specific performance — Discretion of Court — Jurisdiction to order specific performance of contract is based on the existence of a valid and enforceable contract — Where a valid and enforceable...

A. Service Law — Departmental enquiry — Punishment — Quantum of — Interference with — Nature of misconduct — High Court has taken into consideration the totality of the facts and circumstances of the case such as nature of...

The petitioner was directly recruited in the Group-I services as a Regional Transport Officer in 1990 and has been working as Joint Transport Commissioner since 2008. The petitioner belongs to the Scheduled Caste community and is...

UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following

A. Excise — Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 — Ch. 27 and 29 — Central Excise Rules 1944 — R. 174 — Excise duty — IPCL is engaged in the manufacture of various types of petrochemicals — Noti. No. 6 of 2000 dt. 1-3-2000 — Benefit...

A. Estoppel, Acquiescence and Waiver — Estoppel/Promissory Estoppel — Challenge against the refusal of the appellants/Union of India to sanction financial assistance under the industrial promotion policy on the ground of delay...