Supreme Court of India
Sanjay Gupta & Ors v. State of Uttar Pradesh through its Chief Secretary & Ors
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the report of the one-man Commission is not suffering from any infirmity so as to absolve the Organizers from their responsibility of organizing the exhibition.
Judgment, page 44
From the headnote
Constitution of India: Arts. 21 and 32 –Commission of Inquiry Act, 1952 - ss.2(a), 3 - U.P. Fire Service Act, 1944 - s. 16 – Uttar Pradesh Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 2005 - ss. 2(g) ,3 - Code of Criminal Procedure - ss.133,144 - Occurrenc e of Fire Tragedy in a Consumer Show, organized by the responden ts 10 to 12( Organizers)– Incident claimed lives of 65 perso ns and 161 suffered burn injuries – Organizers appointed a contractor to look after the proposed construction of exhibition infra structure – Organizers claiming that contractors liable for fir e tragedy – Appointment of
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- 1996 D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal
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- 1986 M.C. Mehta and Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2015 Radhey Shyam & Anr. v. Chhabi Nath & Ors.
- 1983 Rudul Sah v. State of Bihar and Another
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- 2006 Sube Singh v. State of Haryana and Ors.
- 1977 Pushpabai Purshottam Udeshi & Ors. v. Ranjit Ginning & Pressing Co, (p) Ltd. & Anr.
- 1969 Praga Tools Corporation v. Shri C. A. Imanual & Ors.
- 2001 M.S. Grewal and Anr. v. Deep Chand Sood and Ors.
- 1974 Shyam Sunder and Others v. The State of Rajasthan
- 2014 Sanjay Gupta & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
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