(III) Section 20(4) gives the right to the Board to grant exclusivity to the city or local natural gas distribution network for such period as the Board may decide and once it has the power to give exclusivity to a city or local natural gas distribution network owning entity so that only it can lay, build and operate such network in a geographical area and under these circumstances it becomes the duty of the Board and as per the stipulations under Section 20(4) it has to be done in a transparent manner protecting the consumer interest.

It has been observed in that judgment that " their Lordships take the view that Ch. With the deepest respect I consider it ultra technical and wrong to construe this as conditional on Government having the power. 149 can be successfully brought home to any members of the unlawful assembly. 2013 before the Judicial Magistrate Court No. 302/149 if the charge is that the persons before the Court, along with others named constituted an unlawful assembly; the other persons so named may not be available for trial along with their companions for the reason, for instance, that they have absconded.

In such a case, the fact that less than five persons are before the Court does not make section 149 inapplicable for the simple reason that both the charge and the evidence seek to prove that the persons before the court and others number more than five in all and as Such, they together constitute an unlawful assembly. If the stand of the respondent is accepted, the consumers would never know the transportation rate, since it is possible that in many cases there may not be any other gas supplier who is using the network of pipelines after the exclusivity period.

For example, it has been said that the Appellate Authority did not observe the 1271 instructions that tribal people have to be given certain preferences, or, that persons on the debarred list, like ,smugglers, should be kept out (see p. carry with him the quasipermanent status of his former post of Public Relations Officer while holding the post of Assistant Station Director. The point at this stage is not whether Government had the right and the power but what they intended; and about that I have no doubt whatever.

It may be that less than five persons may be charged and convicted under S. " What else can this mean especially when coupled with their previous conduct showing, their anxiety to do the just and right thing by this unfortunate man, except that because he was protected before he will continue to be protected in the same way. 1 of 2014 seeking prosecution of the accused persons (A-1 to A-45) for commission of offences punishable under Sections 33, 35 and 3 read with Section 25 (1B) (a), Section 7 read with 25 (1-A), Section 10 read with Section 25 (1-B) (f) of the Arms Act 1959 and Rule 30 of the Arms Rules, 1962 , Section 36 (2) read with Section 30 of the Arms Act and Section 3 (2) (d) read with Section 7(1)(a)(ii) of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and Order 2(e)(v)(vi) of the Motor Spirit and High Speed diesel(Regulation of Supply Distribution and Prevention of Malpractices) Order 1998 and Section 120-B of IPC.

In dealing with the question as to the applicability of S. these views and the scheme of the Code in regard to the grant of bail were examined by Lord Russel of Killowen who delivered the judgment of the Board in Lala Jairam Das's case (1). (22) After completion of the investigation which was based on spot inspection of the vessel and other places as disclosed by the accused persons during their interrogation, examination of witnesses, seizure of documents, arms/ammunition, various articles from the vessel and other places, opinion of statutory authorities on seized items, opinion of public prosecutor and sanction order obtained from competent authorities for filing prosecution case under the Arms Act, a detailed charge sheet along with several documents and other materials collected during investigation was filed by the investigation officer against the respondents herein (A-1 to A-45) on 30.

When we come however to the provision in regard to the payment of gratuity to working journalists who voluntarily resigned from service from newspaper establishments, we find that this was a provision which was not at all reasonable. They said that, he "will. In addition to it, the duty is cast on the Board under Section 20(5) to be guided by the objectives of promoting competition among the entities, avoiding infructuous investment, maintaining or increasing supplies or for securing equitable distribution or ensuring adequate availability of natural gas throughout the country and, therefore, the Board can determine the transportation rate/tariff.

They wanted, and intended, and were straining every nerve, to do the right and just thing by him and to give him the same status as he had before, in the matter of pay, in the matter of service and in the protections that he had in his other post. 1 Thoothukudi bearing PRC No. If five or more persons are named in the charge as composing an unlawful assembly and evidence adduced by the prosecution proves that charge against all of them, that is a very clear case where S.

It is, however, not necessary that five or more persons must be convicted before a charge under S. The decision has thus no application to the facts before us; but Shri Purushottam relies on certain observations made in the judgment. The utmost that has been suggested, is that it has not carried out certain Executive Instructions. 149 in such cases it is necessary to bear in mind the several categories of cases which come before the Criminal Courts for their decision.