General Clauses Act, 1904

The Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation (KDM Corp) and the State of Maharashtra appealed against a Bombay High Court order that set aside the suspension of Sanjay Gajanan Gharat, an Additional Municipal Commissioner (AMC), and quashed the departmental inquiry against him. Gharat had been arrested under the Preventio…

The appellants were detained under the Gujarat Prevention of Anti‑Social Activities Act, 1985 (PASA) as "property grabbers" and challenged the detention orders. The High Court upheld the orders, but the Supreme Court examined the constitutional validity of PASA, the legality of delegating detention power to district ma…

The State of Uttar Pradesh sought to recover differential excise duty on excess wastage of military rum that was exported by the respondents, Delhi Cloth Mills, under a lower export duty rate. The respondents argued that the duty on excess wastage could not be levied, and the Allahabad High Court quashed the demand. Th…