...M. Fathima Beevi, J.— The appellant M/s Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company Limited carried on business of running a light railway between Dehri-on-Sone to Tiura Pipradhih in...the district of Rohtas, Bihar. The railway line for the said light railway was laid over 67 kilometers. The area covered was 413.55 acres owned and/or used by the company as a lessee. The appellant was...District Board of Shahabad, (now Bhojpur) on August 7, 1953. Thereby it was agreed that the company will pay a fixed sum of Rs 10,000 per annum towards cess in respect of the railway under the Bengal Cess...

..., Calcutta. The Shahdra (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway Co. Ltd., The Arrah Sasaram Light Railway Co. Ltd., The Futwah Islampur Light Railway Co. Ltd., The Howrah-Amta Light ...Howrah Sheakhala Light Railway Co. Ltd., are five distinct and different Light Railway Companies. Martin Burn Ltd. were originally the Managing Agents of all these five Railway Companies, but after the...recent amendments of the Companies Act, Martin Burn Ltd. continued to remain as “Managing Agents” of the Howrah Amta Light Railway Co. Ltd., and the Shahdara (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway Co. Ltd...

...afforded to the Light Railway joint station facilities as also the right of conveyance over its lines of materials required by the Light Railway for its own purposes. The case of respondent No. 1, the...came to be due from the latter by 1950 and on June 6 of that year, a notice of demand was served on the Light Railway, claiming payment of a sum of Rs. 5,22,313-12-6. That amount was made up of the...discussed between the representatives of the Light Railway and the Law Officer of the East Indian Railway to which a reference is to be found in the third paragraph of the Light Railway's reply...

...JUDGMENT Reuben, J. 1. On the petition of the Light Railway Company filed on 28-6-1950, a rule has been issued on the opposite party to show cause why a...writ of mandamus should not issue against them restraining them from interfering with the possession of the Company over the pro-patties and management of the Bihar Bukhtiarpur Light Railway. There is...interfering with the possession of the Light Railway Company. It being asserted on behalf of the District Board that dispossession had already taken place before the issue of the injunction, a further rule...

...retrenchment implies the discharge of surplus labour was explained in Barsi Light Railway Co. Ltd. v.K.N Joglekar AIR 1957...) provides that the Act will apply to:“(a) every factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port and railway company;(b) every...

...Reuben, J. 1. On the petition of the Light Railway Company filed on 28-6-1950, a rule has been issued on the opposite party to show cause why a writ of mandamus...should not issue against them restraining them from interfering with the possession of the Company over the pro-patties and management of the Bihar Bukhtiarpur Light Railway. There is also a rule...against the District Board of Patna (opposite party 3), Mr. Khaderan Singh, Chairman of the District Board (opposite party 4), and Mr. H. Subberwal, ex-Head Accounts Officer of the Light Railway Company...

...invoice No. 10 B009391, dated 27-9-1948. By this receipt, a consignment of 'Jogree' was booked from Shamli Railway Station on S. S. Light Railway to Tinsukia. The consignment consisted of 216 bags...and also circumstantial evidence showing that the consignments were handed over by the S. S. Light Railway, with which they were originally booked, to the East India Railway at Delhi...the S. S. Light Railway when the consignment was booked and loaded. He then went to Delhi and there he got the consignment transhipped over the E. I. Railway. He was present when the consignment in...

...the Barsi Light Railway Company Limited, Kurduwadi, within the State of Bombay (hereinafter called the Railway Company). The principal respondent is the President of the Barsi Light Railwaymen's Union..., are these. Under an agreement dated August 1, 1895, between the Secretary of State for India in Council and the Railway Company, the latter constructed, maintained and worked a light railway between...Council and the Barsi Light Railway Company Ltd., and of all the contracts supplemental thereto, at the expiration of 12 calendar months next after the current month and the contracts shall terminate...

...Reuben, J.:— On the petition of the Light Railway Company filed on 28-6-1950, a rule has been issued on the opposite party to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue against...them restraining them from interfering with the possession of the Company over the properties and management of the Bihar Bakhtiarpur Light Railway. There is also a rule against the District Board of...Patna (opposite party 3), Mr. Khaderan Singh, Chairman of the District Board (opposite party 4), and Mr. H. Subberwal, ex-Head Accounts Officer of the Light Railway Company (opposite party 5) to show...

...the Eastern Railway. The destination was Khekra, a Railway Station on S. S. Light Railway in the district of Meerut. The railway receipt was sent to the plaintiff through the State Bank of India...costs of the goods, a sum of Rs. 2,481.44 was claimed as costs of the remaining undelivered consignment. The three defendants, in the suit were (1) Union of India (2) S. S. Light Railway Company Ltd...proved in the case of S. S. Light Railway. On these findings, the suit was dismissed. The plaintiff went up in appeal and the lower appellate court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the trial court's...

...1. The suit filed by the Municipal Commissioners of Bihar Municipality through the Special Officer against the petitioner, namely, B.B Light Railway Administration for realisation of.... State of Bihar, AIR 1951 Pat 231, that this Light Railway was established in or about year 1901 under the provisions of the Bengal Tramways Act, 1883 (Bengal Act III of 1883...—“… The Governor General in Council is pleased to extend the whole of the said Act except section 135, to the Bukhtiarpur Behar Light Railway”, meaning thereby that the other provisions of...

...Arrah to make sure that the name of the company under liquidation, namely, Dehri-Rohtas Light Railway Co. Limited, is entered in the revenue records after deleting the name of “Kaisare Hind...concerned revenue authority to enter the name of Dehri-Rohtas Light Railway Co. Limited (In liquidation) in concerned revenue records and also file an affidavit to this effect in this case within a period of two months from today....

...1. Messrs. Martin & Co. Managing Agents ot the S. S. Light Railway (defendant No. 2) have appealed against the lower Court's decree for Rs. 12,659/- on account of delayed delivery...7th September 1947, Messrs. Raviprakash Om Prakash, a firm ot commission agents dealing in jaggery, booked at Khekra on the S. S. Light Railway a consignment of 199 bags of jaggery weighing 485...few days, the floods receded, but the track was extensively damaged and breached at several places. The normal working of the S. S. Light Railway was restored on 12th November 1947...

...1. In this case the assessee is a public limited company which runs a railway known as “Dehri-Rohtas Light Railway” over a distance of 24 miles from Dehri-on-Sone to Rohtas and also...respectively in replacing the old and worn out sleepers on the railway line by new ones. In 1953-54, the number of old and worn out sleepers so replaced was 6,200 covering a distance of 3 ¼ miles out...of the railway line of 24 miles and in 1954-55 the number of sleepers was 2,712 covering a distance of 1 ½ miles of railway track. The assessee claimed this expenditure as revenue expenditure for...

...Railway Station of the S.S Light Railway to Gauhati, and the Railway Receipt was endorsed by defendant 2 in favour of the plaintiff, it being Railway Receipt No. 26/009930.2. The...4 of the amended written statement filed on 4-9-50, which says—“The S.S Light Railway, which is the contracting Railway, is not owned and managed by the answering defendant. Only 200...bags were made over by the S.S Light Railway to the East Punjab Page: 189Railway owned by the answering defendant, and these 200 bags were correctly made over by the East Indian Railway owned by the...

...Light Railway. Under one of the terms of the agreement, the Government agreed to provide free of charge sufficient land for purposes of the Railway. It appears that land was acquired by the Government...and was handed over to the Railway. Ever since this Light Railway has been operating between Shahdara (Delhi) and Saharanpur. Though, in the beginning, Shahdara was a part of the United Provinces, later...it was included in Delhi.3. By a special resolution dated December 10, 1970, the S.S Light Railway Co. decided to go into voluntary liquidation and a voluntary liquidator was appointed...

...one hand and the employees of the Northern Railway on the other. In the light of the command of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India the same treatment is required to be accorded to the...India v. Smt Afsar Jahan Begum rendered in Special Appeal No. 9 of 1975 on March 12, 1979. The aforesaid decision has been accepted by the Railway Administration in the sense that no special...leave petition was preferred in this Court and the matter finally rested there. The petitioners who are employees of Eastern Railway have contended that they are entitled to the same treatment as is being...

...discriminated against. In short the submission was that ASL Railways was a privately owned light railway like the K.F Railways; the erstwhile staff of the K.F Railways, on their appointment in the Indian..., it was decided on 4-11-1969 that K.F Light Railway Staff who were earlier treated as fresh entrants, should also be permitted to count their entire service on K.F Railways for pensionary benefits....It is evident from the above that the cases of employees of K.F and A.S Light Railway stand on different footing.”11...

...1. The petitioner, the Messrs S.S Light Railway Company Limited is one of the few private railways still operating in this country, with its Head-quarters, in Calcutta; its main terminus is...demands by the workers of the S.S Light Railway Company and certain changes effected by the State Railways in the matter of supply of cheap grain, the terms were revised; they were further revised by...respect of all employees of the S.S Light Railway receiving Rs. 250 or less as basic monthly salary.4. There were further disputes arising out of the references, one by the workers asking...