Stamp -- Determination of the month & year - Held, to determine the real controversy between the parties, the document should be sent to Government Press, Nasik for determination of the month and year of the revenue stamps affixed thereon...........
Telegraph Act, 1885, Section 7B -- Arbitration - Initiation - Either party can make application to Central Government...........
Telegraph Act, 1885, Section 3(6) -- 'Telegraph Authority' - Meaning - Telegraph Authority is different from Central Government...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4, 6 -- Challenge to acquisition on the ground that petitioners purchased small pieces of land in a privately developed colony and built their houses and acquisition for the same purpose - Cannot be said that Government not entitled to acquire land for residential/ commercial purposes and to frame a scheme in this behalf...........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 23 -- Claimants only tendered certified copy of award of District Judge in similarly acquired land - Plea of State Government that compensation for acquired land cannot be enhanced as evidence about trees etc. not produced in the reference - Keeping in view doctrine of stare decisis and amended provisions of the Act providing for those..........
Electricity Act, 1910, Section 22B -- Classification of consumers for different rates of electricity tariff - Government is free to make their own classification - Government is not bound by the specification, categorization, designation or division made by the Board for purposes of levying electricity charges...........
Haryana Ceiling on Lands Holdings Act, 1972, Section 8, 12 -- Transfer of land before 30-7-1958 by landowner byway of partition to his sons - Declaration as surplus under Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act- Land transferred cannot be taken into account while determining surplus area under the Act - Transferred land though declared surplus under Punjab Security of Land..........
Punjab Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1953, Section 8(1)(b), Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1952, Rule 9 -- Person to whom offer made if does not communicate his acceptance or otherwise of the offer - Becomes a case neither of acceptance nor of refusal - Requirement that competent authority under Rule 9(6) to report the..........
Indian Forest Act, 1927, Section 38 -- Powers exercised by Government only on receipt of a written request made by a majority of proprietors or share-holders of the village - A strong presumption of legality and correctness attaches in favour of Notification issued under Section 38- Cannot be rebutted in collateral proceedings initiated under some other Act...........
Haryana Ceiling on Lands Holdings Act, 1972, Section 12, 8 -- Land declared surplus with landowner under Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act - Surplus area never utilised nor landowner dispossessed therefrom till death of landowner on December 22, 1972 - Widow of landowner filed necessary declaration and Prescribed Authority declared that no land Surplus - Naib Tehsildar..........
