Judgments of 2000

Mafatlal Industries Ltd, a textile manufacturer, brought cloth rolls of 100 metres into the municipal limits of Nadiad and cut them into smaller pieces before sending them out of the town. The issue was whether octroi duty under Section 99 of the Gujarat Municipal Act, 1963 was payable on those cloth pieces. The Gujara…

Kolhapur Canesugar Works Ltd., a subsidiary of Kolhapur Sugar Mills Ltd., was granted a sugar incentive rebate for the 1973‑74 season. The Excise authorities later issued a show‑cause notice under Rule 10 of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, demanding recovery of the rebate, alleging it was erroneously allowed. While the…

The respondent, E.I.D. Parry (India) Ltd., sued the Union of India for recovery of demurrage charged by the Railways for failing to unload ten box wagons within the free time. The trial court decreed a partial refund and the High Court upheld that decree but, on its own motion, struck down Part 1A of the Southern Railw…

Abdul Rashid Ibrahim Mansuri, an auto‑rickshaw driver, was arrested after police stopped his vehicle and found four gunny bags containing charas. The police officer who ordered the stop relied on verbal information and neither recorded it in writing nor forwarded it to his superior as required by Section 42(1) of the N…

The appellant, Oberai Forwarding Agency, was hired to transport a consignment of broken rice, which was lost in transit. The consignee (second respondent) claimed the loss from New India Assurance Co. Ltd. (first respondent), which paid compensation and obtained a "Letter of Subrogation" and a Special Power of Attorney…

Bachna filed a suit for specific performance of an agreement to sell a property but did not initially plead that she was ready and willing to perform her part of the contract; this plea was later added by amendment. The defendants were the legal representatives of a subsequent purchaser of the property, who sought to r…

C.G. Velkar, a private forest land holder, challenged the vesting of his 20‑hectare land in Versave village in the State of Maharashtra under the Maharashtra Private Forests (Acquisition) Act, 1975. The dispute centered on whether the word "issue" in Section 2(f)(iii) of the Act required actual service of a notice unde…

The State of Madhya Pradesh filed criminal appeals against Ram Singh and two other public servants who were charged under Sections 13(1)(e) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The investigations were authorised by the Superintenden…