...Secretary to Government of India. A sample order issued to the Ruler of Gwalior State may be read here:“No. 21/14/70-Poll. III...President hereby directs that with effect from the date of this Order His Highness Maharajdhiraja Madhav Rao Jiwaji Rao Scindia Bahadur do cease to be recognised as the Ruler of Gwalior...the Ruler of Gwalior which is first on my list and embraces almost all the varying aspects of the question. The other petitions were identical except for some details which are special to a particular...

...proximity of smallpox patients to other patients in an infectious diseases hospital was quite an accepted procedure in the modern method of handling infectious disease. As regarded a common nursing staff...to treat the patients of defendant No. 1 company free of charge. On December 20, 1961, the plaintiffs son, Gopal, fell ill suddenly, while he was working in defendant No. 1s factory at Loni Kalbhor...deceased Gopal died of smallpox or that he was under his treatment at the time of the death. According to him, the deceased was not treated by him with gross negligence or carelessness, nor was he treated as...

...improving the patients. Mr. Singhvi submitted that the very fact that even Dr. Grant, who was a very renowned doctor in Poona, was unable to diagnose the disease of Gopal as smallpox and advised his...it was the best system known to medical science to-day. He stated that the proximity of smallpox patients to other patients in an infectious diseases hospital was quite an accepted procedure in th...Medical Officer and Adviser of defendant No. 1 company. Defendant No. 2, as the Medical Officer of the company, had to treat the patients of defendant No. 1 company free of charge. On December 20, 1961...

...made an endorsement to this effect and signed the same. The witness in cross-examination admitted that in case of patients of serious burn injuries painkillers are administered to the patients. He also...Thergaon, Chinchwad, they shifted to a quarter in MIDC Colony, Chinchwad.3. Sharada died of burn injuries suffered during the night intervening 8-7-1989 and 9-7-1989 in the...wee hours of the morning of 9-7-1989. It is also not disputed that on the date of the occurrence, Appellant 2 had come to stay at the house of her brother i.e. Appellant 1. Burn injuries were to the...

..., the High Court seems to have committed a serious error of law in convicting these appellants. It has been established that so far as Kuppi Singh is concerned he undoubtedly had smallpox marks and was...T.I parade in this case does not state that he had taken any precaution to conceal the smallpox marks appearing on the face of Kuppi Singh by mixing other persons who had some smallpox marks...them under Section 396 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to imprisonment for life. The narration of the prosecution case is given in the judgment of the High Court and it is not necessary to...

...suffering with burn injuries. Some of the injured also died on the way to the hospital or while being treated at the hospital. The death toll reached 60 and the total number of persons injured was 113...cases of death and Part II dealing with cases of burn injury. In view of the indications in the order of this Court, referring the matter to Shri Chandrachud that in deciding the quantum of compensation...Court had directed Tata Iron and Steel Company to bear the entire cost of the proceedings.5. In case of persons injured with burn injury, it had been contended before Shri...

...Covenant entered into among the Rulers of the several States provided that the Ruler of each covenanting State shall be entitled to the full ownership, use and enjoyment of all private properties...belonging to him, and Art. XIV provided. that succession according to law and custom, to the gaddi of such covenanting State, and to the personal rights, privileges, dignities and titles of the Ruler were...guaranteed. On the death of the last Ruler of Dholpur in 1954 without any male issue, a controversy, as to who was entitled to the rulership, arose between the petitioner, who was a senior member of a...

...Varman family and used to be installed on the gaddi or throne. The petitioners further alleged that the Ruler when so chosen and installed held the State and zamindari as life tenant subject to the...late Maharaja Bir Bikram. In consequence, at the time of regency of Her Highness Rajmata during the minority of the last Ruler Maharaja Kirit Bikram, a committee was appointed on 20th June, 1949, to...of India also to that suit, because it is their case that either the Ruler or the Union of India is responsible to pay them appropriate and adequate maintenance allowance.4...

...trial court that s. 86(1) wag not applicable to the appellant's suit because the said section referred to the Ruler of a foreign State and not to a foreign State as such. In This connection the High...Court observed that only in the case of a monarchical State could the Ruler be taken to be identical with the State. However, on the alternative plea of the respondent based on immunity under..., as laid down in the proviso to s. 84 to enforce a private right vested in the Ruler of such State 320 or in any officer of such State in his public capacity. By...

...the Central Government in exercise of power under para 13 of the Merged States (Taxation Concessions) Order, 1949, to be the official residence of the Ruler. During the Assessment Year 1961-62 the...which is in the occupation of the Ruler and on the said conclusion he found that the estimated market value of several buildings which had been let out to be Rs 3,55,000. This valuation obviously he found...would disentitle the assessee of any exemption since the building in question is not under the occupation of the Ruler fully. It also came to the conclusion that liberal interpretation of the said...

..., we find that specifically the deceased is saying that the appellant wanted to perform second marriage and, therefore, he caused burn injury to her. As per Ex.D/5 dying declaration of the deceased...cause of death of deceased Seema Kumwanr asphyxia due to burn. The postmortem report read as under:“Dead body of young female, almost completely burnt except few patches over left side...abdomen and foot. About 95% burn. Superficial to deep (up to 2nd and 3rd grade) hole skin burnt and peeling off. Hair of scalp singed. Eyes closed, conjunctive, congested lips-swollen cherry red fine...

...decided to give up the job and set up a plastic factory of his own. He wanted Vibha's father to give money for that purpose. Vibha's father paid Rs 20,000 only. As he was required to obtain a loan...smallpox after the marriage and as the parents of Vibha believed that he had taken to smoking and drinking and was in bad company, they thought that they had committed a mistake in getting their daughter...married to him and therefore wanted her to take a divorce. That was the reason why the parents of Vibha were not sending Rachna to his house even though he was willing to keep her. As regards the...

...the moral obligation of a doctor to his patients. The medicine was prescribed by him [corticosteroid viz. depomedrol (methyl prednisolone acetate)] without even diagnosing a disease. But, he did not...throughout the world. TEN was discovered in the year 1956 by Lyell. It leads to immunosuppression. For treating the patients suffering from TEN, doctors used to administer steroid. Later researches showed...use of steroids was more detrimental than beneficial to TEN patients.50. Admittedly, Anuradha was administered steroids. The learned counsel for the parties have brought...

...this case; hence omitted. She died on 22-6-1984 due to 80 per cent burn injuries. The crime was covered under Section 302, Indian Penal Code (IPC). PW 7, the doctor conducted autopsy and issued post...doctor's evidence that she died due to 80 per cent burn injuries, the conclusion would be that the cause of the death was burns. The omission to find kerosene smell on the hair sent for chemical examination...consequentially she sustained 80 per cent burn injuries and died due to shock. The offence, therefore, of murder, has been made out. Though Pushpa, mother-in-law of the deceased was wrongly acquitted, the acquittal...

...administration of his State to the Rajpramukh and thereupon—(a) all rights, authority and jurisdiction belonging to the Ruler which appertain, or are...;(b) all duties and obligations of the Ruler pertaining or incidental to the Government of the covenanting State shall devolve on the Union and shall be discharged by...(1) The Ruler of each covenanting State shall be entitled to the full ownership, use and enjoyment of all private properties (as distinct from State properties) belonging to him...

...construction of Sections 86 and 87-B of the Code of Civil Procedure. By reason of Section 86(1) read with Section 87-B, no Ruler of any former Indian State “may be sued in any court otherwise competent to try....9. The third contention of Mr Pathak raises the question whether an amount payable to a Ruler of a former Indian State as privy purse is a political pension within...into one State. Article VI provided that the Ruler of each Covenanting State shall not later than July 1, 1948 make over the administration of the State to the Rajpramukh and thereupon all rights...

...her ornaments and that infuriated the appellant. He doused her with kerosene and wanted her to die and supplied a box of matchsticks to her. As she failed to ignite the matchstick the appellant...recorded from her by the police which became the basis for the FIR. Subsequently the Munsif Magistrate (PW 7) recorded her dying declaration. Later she succumbed to her burn injuries...when he approached the deceased when the demand for sparing her ornaments was made by him. When she refused to oblige he poured kerosene on her and wanted her to light the matchstick. When she failed...

.... It has been alleged that while the appellant wanted to spend lavishly and celebrate the ear-piercing ceremony along with the ear-piercing ceremony of his brother's children, the deceased did not agree...to it, and on the contrary wanted the function to be as simple as possible without incurring much expenditure. The ear-piercing ceremony was fixed for 1-6-1992.4. On the...suffered burn injuries on his body requested PW 1 to call for an autorickshaw.5. PW 1 took the baby and handed him over to PW 3 and requested their neighbour, Narayanan (PW 5...

...:The appellant is running a clinic at Parali. On 17-12-1990, the prosecutrix, along with her husband and their small child, came to the clinic at about 9 a.m Several patients were...child and prescribed some medicines. Thereafter the prosecutrix herself wanted to consult the doctor as she had some ailments. She entered the room of the appellant, then a boy (attendant) directed the...at a village about 30 km away from the clinic of the appellant. They came to the appellant's clinic and the prosecutrix after meeting the doctor with her child, again wanted to meet the doctor. She...