Supreme Court of India
The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Others v. Ch. Gandhi
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What the Court ordered
In view of the aforesaid analysis, the order passed by the High Court that a double punishment has been imposed does not withstand scrutiny.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
under the Motor Vehicles Act or any other enactment, can the Court yet compel it to pay the amount in question giving it liberty to later on recover the same from the owner of the vehicle. (2) Can such a direction be given under Article 142 of the Constitution, and what is the scope of Article 142? Does Article 142 permit the Court to create a liability where there is none?” 25. The pendency of consideration of the above questions by a larger Bench does not mean that the course that was followed in Baljit Kaur5 and Challa Bharathamma6 should not be followed, more so in a peculiar fact
Authorities it was built on
- 1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India
- 1994 Hitendra Vishnu Thakur and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 1971 Deokinandan Prasad v. State of Bihar & Ors.
- 1991 Union of India Etc. Etc. v. K.V. Jankiraman Etc. Etc.
- 1983 A.a Calton v. The Director of Education & Another
- 1997 Chairman, Railway Board and Ors. v. C.R. Rangadhamaiah and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2008 Ritesh Agarwal and Anr. v. Securities and Exchange Board of India Act and Ors.
- 1984 Ex. Capt. K.C. Arora and Another v. State of Haryana and Others
- 2007 Marripati Nagaraja and Ors. v. The Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
- 1985 Maya Rani Punj v. Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi,
- 2005 Government of India and Ors. v. Indian Tobacco Association
- 1975 Tiwari Kanahaiyalal Etc. v. The Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi
- 2007 Coal India Ltd. and Ors. v. Saroj Kumar Mishra
- 1989 Pyare Lal Sharma v. Managing Director, Jammu & Kashmir Industries Ltd. & Ors. & Vice Versa.
- 1975 Raj Kumar v. Union of India & Ors.
- 1992 Delhi Development Authority v. H.C. Khurana
- 2007 You One Maharia -jv through You One Engineering and Construction Company Ltd. and Anr. v. National Highways Authority of India
- 2007 Tejshree Ghag Etc. Etc. v. Prakash Parashuram Patil and Ors. Etc. Etc.
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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