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  ONGC VS SAW PIPES LTD.  CIVIL APPEAL 7419/2001 The company Saw pipes came into a contract with ONGC for the supply of pipes. Due to sudden labor strikes was happened in all over the European continent that cause Saw pipes ltd. failed to transfer the product on time to their client ONGC. So, Saw pipes ltd. requested to the ONGC for extension the time period for delivery the same. There was a clause in the contract that stated- for delay of every week the contractor will be charged 1% of the whole unit price of the order or the part which the contractor has failed to deliver and these liquidated damages can be recovered up to the ceiling limit of 10% of the whole price of the unit. It has also been agreed by the parties that the stipulated liquidated damages are genuine, pre-estimated, not in the form of penalty, and can be deducted from the bill of the payment. Saw pipes ltd. (respondent) had caused the delay and when the ONGC (appellant) withheld the US $ 3, 04,970.2...

KAILASH NATH ASSOCIATES VS. DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES AND ANRS. Civil Appeal No 193/2015   In this case, Delhi development authorities organized a public auction for selling a property and during the time of auction plaintiff Kailash nath associates chosen as a highest bidder among the other participants. On 18.2.1982, the DDA acknowledged the receipt of Rs.78, 00,000/- (Rupees Seventy Eight Lakhs), accepted the appellant’s bid and directed the appellant to deposit the remaining 75% by 17.5.1982 but the plaintiff requested to the DDA for extension of the stipulated time for remaining payment. DDA setup a high power committee to look into this matter. The High Powered Committee on 21.7.1982 recommended granting the extension of time to bidders for depositing the remaining amount of 75%. Based on the High Powered Committee’s report, by a letter dated 11.8.1982, the DDA extended time for payment up to 28.10.1982 with varying rates of interest starting from 18% and going...

After Independence Daughter's Right in India  “Once a daughter, always a daughter. A son is a son till he is married”. This changed into quoted via way of means of the Supreme Court on eleven August 2020 in a landmark judgement within side the case of Vineeta Sharma v. Rakesh Sharma. The choice of the Supreme Court gave a brand new which means to the belongings rights given to a daughter in her father’s belongings. The Court held that daughters may have same coparcenary rights in Hindu Undivided (HUF) houses even supposing they have been born earlier than 2005 Amendment of the Hindu Succession Act. It has taken a long term to attain this factor and all of it began out from 1956. The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 which changed into primarily based totally at the Hindu Mitakshara School ruled the succession and belongings inheritance for the Hindus however it simplest gave those succession and inheritance rights to adult males as felony heirs. Under the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF), cop...

INDIA & U.K EXTRADITION TREATY        An extradition treaty turned into signed among India and U.K on 22 September 1992 and ratified on 15 November 1993. The extradition treaty calls for sure preconditions, Firstly Dual Criminality- this means that that offence below which someone is being extradited must be a criminal offense in each the countries. Secondly, the punishment for the crime within side the inquiring for country must be multiple year. Thirdly, the punishment must now no longer be dying penalty (if so the inquiring for country can provide the dedication that the dying penalty will now no longer Be imposed). Fourthly, the rate sheet within side the courtroom docket must had been filed within side the inquiring for country and the courtroom docket must have issued an arrest warrant. Recently in information the extradition instances of Indian enterprise tycoons, it’s been five years because Vijay Mallaya fled India. His extradition from the uk continu...

 M.C MEHATA VS. UNION OF INDIA

 

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  Golakhnath  v. State of Punjab (1967)       This is one of the maximum distinguished cases in Indian Legal History which become overturned in any other essential case,  Keshavananda  Bharati vs UOI (1973).   Facts   Henry and William  Golaknath’s  own circle of relatives become the proprietor of  almost  500  acres  of land and for this reason to the Land Tenures Act, The Government of Punjab said that they could most effectively keep  30 acres  each. Both brothers should keep most effective 30 acres of land of their possession, a few a part of the final might take delivery of to the tenants and the final of  it'd  be declared as surplus.   The own circle of relatives challenged this withinside the courts. They stuffed a writ petition below Article 32, mentioning that the Land Tenure Act, has seized their article 19(f) and (g) which  states  that they have the proper to keep t...