Supreme Court of India

Bank of India and Ors. v. O.P. Swaranakar Etc.

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 438

Bench G.B. Pattanaik, H.K. Sema and S.B. Sinha JJ.

Decided 17 December 2002

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that sub-s.(5) of s. 26 having regard to the purposes . for which it is made, and in the context in· which it occurs, cannot be BANK OF INDIA v.

Judgment, page 51

Authorities it was built on

1986 Jayantrao Amratrao Pradhan v. Parthasarthy, Collector of Kaira District and Others cited by 10
1965 Jan Mohammad Noor Mohammad Begban v. State of Gujarat and Another cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

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2021 M/s. New Victoria Mills & Ors. v. Shrikant Arya referred to
2019 Air India Express Limited and Ors. v. Capt. Gurdarshan Kaur Sandhu referred to
2019 Union of India through its Secretary, Ministry of Defence Dhqpo New Delhi & Ors. v. Wg. Cdr. Subrata Das (19942-h) referred to
2018 National Insurance Special Voluntary Retired/ Retired Employees Association & Anr. v. United India Insurance Co. Ltd. & Anr. referred to
2016 Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation v. Manoj Kumar & Anr. referred to
2015 M/s Ariane Orgachem Pvt. Ltd. v. Wyeth Employees Union & Ors. referred to
2010 New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Raghuvir Singh Narang & Anr. referred to
2026 Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, Uttar Pradesh and Another v. The State of Uttar Pradesh mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 8 referred to · 1 mentioned

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