Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4 -- Acquisition proceedings - Publication - Challenge to acquisition proceedings on ground that S.4 notification was not published in Official Gazette - High Court upheld acquisition proceedings by assuming that notification issued u/s 4(1) must have been published in official gazette because declaration issued u/s 6 was published in..........
Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, Section 2 -- Newspaper report wherein image of a former Chief Justice of High Court tarnished - Report not based on facts but based on surmises and conjectures - Dignity of Courts and people's faith in administration must not be tarnished because of biased and unverified reporting - In order to avoid such biased reporting, one must be careful..........
Banking service -- Education loan - Default in payment - Publishing name in chronic defaulter list - The complainant having been a defaulter and having violated the terms of loan agreement cannot question the publication of defaulters list by the OP-Bank - The statement of the account of the complainant speaks volumes of his negligence in allowing the loan amount pouring..........
Banking service -- Education loan - Default in payment - Publishing name in chronic defaulter list - The complainant having been a defaulter and having violated the terms of loan agreement cannot question the publication of defaulters list by the OP - Bank - The statement of the account of the complainant speaks volumes of his negligence in allowing the loan amount pouring..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 9, Rule 13, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 5, Rule 20 -- Ex parte decree - Setting aside - Substituted service - Publication in newspaper - Copy of newspaper not sent to house of defendant by registered post by newspaper authorities - No evidence that said newspaper was having circulation in the said area - Proper service of summons was..........
Railways Act, 1989, Section 20A, 20F(2), 20E(1) -- Acquisition of land for special railway project - Appeal against award - S.20E of the Act requires notification declaring acquisition to be published only in official gazette - There is no requirement of publication of notification in any newspaper - Therefore, period of one year stipulated in S.20F(2) of the Act to make..........
Railways Act, 1989, Section 20A, 20F(2), 20E(1) -- Acquisition of land for special railway project - Lapsing of proceedings - Award not made within period of 1 year of publication of declaration as stipulated u/s.20F(2) of the Act - Acquisition proceedings would not lapse if the land has already vested absolutely in Central Government on publication of declaration of..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 3(f), 5A, 17 -- Acquisition of land by invoking emergency provisions - Time which elapsed between publication of S.4(1) and S.17 notification and S.6 declaration in the local newspaper is of almost one year - Held, the slow pace at which Govt. machinery had functioned in processing the acquisition clearly shows that there was no urgency..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 500, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Defamation - Quashing of proceedings - Allegations that advertisement published by petitioner Co. with Associated Traders amounted to disparaging respondent's product - Associated Traders categorically admitted that advertisement in question was taken out by it on its own and petitioner Co...........
Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas (Restriction of Unregulated Development) Act, 1963, Section 5,6,7, Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, Section 203, Works of Defence Act, 1903, Section 3,7 -- Petitioner Society raised unauthorised constructions in controlled area in utter violation of provisions of Gazette Notification issued by Govt. of India under sections 3 and 7 of..........
