Sword Possession Laws in Malabar Area: Legal Guide

2024 Supreme(Online)(KER) 47116

As per the said notification possession of any arm of any description within the limits of the Malabar district except under a license was prohibited. ... Both places are indisputably not part of the erstwhile Malabar District. Therefore notification No.222 dated 14.09.1922 would not take within its local area the aforesaid places. ... Delhi Administration and another [AIR 1962 SC 1781] in order to contend that when notification no.222 dated 14.09.1922 covers Malabar area alone there o....

2024 Supreme(Online)(KER) 1323

As per the said notification possession of any arm of any description within the limits of the Malabar district except under a license was prohibited. ... Both places are indisputably not part of the erstwhile Malabar District. Therefore notification No.222 dated 14.09.1922 would not take within its local area the aforesaid places. ... Delhi Administration and another [AIR 1962 SC 1781] in order to contend that when notification no.222 dated 14.09.1922 covers Malabar area alone there o....

2014 0 Supreme(Ker) 367

I proceed for the time being on the basis that two swords and a knife were seized from the possession of the petitioners on the relevant day and time. ... What is (said to be) seized from the possession of the petitioners is two swords and a knife. Those weapons come within the description of item No.(v) of Schedule I of the Rules which takes in swords, knife etc. What is (allegedly) possessed by the petitioners are arms coming in item No. ... in the Official Gazette direct that Sec.4 shall apply to the....

, three swords, a dagger, a clasp knife, an electric torch and a bunch of seventeen keys. ... Colombo South, 55,427 Unlawful possession of house-breaking instruments-Several accused-Possession of implements by one accused -Inference of common possession-Penal Code, s. 449. ... I agree that the swords and dagger found on the 1st and 2nd accused are not instruments of house-breaking ; and they must therefore be acquitted if they are liable only for such weapons as they had on their persons. ... The ....

1963 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 21

of the Constitution, so far as private forests and their owners, in the Malabar area are concerned. ... The State has also not controverted the position that in the Travancore Cochin area there are no private forests; whereas such private forests do exist in the Malabar area. ... 1 In this batch of 14 writ petitions, the petitioners, though different, who are all owners of forest lands in the area, commonly known as the Malabar area, attack the grou....

2026 0 Supreme(Ker) 35

Parvathy Ammal alleging that she is holding excess land and an order was passed directing to surrender 7.43 acres after fixing the ceiling area at 15 acres. 9. The extent of land ordered to be surrendered happened to be in the possession of Smt. ... the claimed possession was illegal. ... In the instant case, the occupants or their predecessors are in possession of the property from 1948 onwards. They claim that they have got fixity of tenure under Section 29 of the Malabar Tenancy Act 1929. They have g....

Patna High Court

If the Central Government is of opinion that having regard to the circumstances prevailing in any area it is necessary or expedient in the public interest that the acquisition, possession or carrying of arms other than firearms should ... also be regulated, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that this Section shall apply to the area specified in the notification and thereupon no person shall acquire, have in his possession or carry in ... The police raided the shop of Prabhu Prasad and....

are, though Malabar inhabitants, not of Jaffna, but of Chilaw. ... I find myself in considerable doubt of plaintiff's statement that for a year after he bought he had possession of this land, while the fifth defendant flatly denied. But the point is immaterial, and may be left there. ... In the Proclamation No. 18 of 1806, from which it derives its present force, that law is similarly limited to Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna. ... The Tesawalamai apply to " the Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Ja....

1981 0 Supreme(Ker) 314

in the possession of the petitioner would be raised above the ceiling area; or that the total extent of land in the possession of the respondents would be reduced below the ceiling area by the resumption. ... of land in the possession of the cultivating tenant is not reduced below the ceiling area." ... of his family, may resume from his tenant, who is in possession of land exceeding the ceiling area, the whole or portion of the holding, subject to t....

1936 0 Supreme(All) 177

In other words the applicant was in possession of a spear-head. The question however remains whether the possession of a spear-head could justify the conviction of the applicant u/s 19(f), Arms Act. ... The Notification referred to above does not prohibit the possession of a spear-head in the district of Ghazipur. ... and sword sticks in the possession of all persons other than such persons as were exempted in respect of these weapons... ... But by the same schedule the Local Government is authorized, by means of a Notif....

2012 0 Supreme(Ker) 108

The learned Public Prosecutor would further submit that the tone and tenor of the words and the way it is expressed also may have relevance depending upon the context and circumstances. Therefore, the learned Public Prosecutor submits that there are even regional variations in the meaning of such words. The concept of ‘obscenity’ would differ from country to country, state to state and even from region to region depending on the standards of morals and contemporary society. The words treated as obscene in Malabar area may not be obscene in other parts of Kerala; similarly the words....

2011 0 Supreme(Ker) 779

The question referred to the Full Bench was whether the owners of jenmom lands in the Malabar area are the proprietors of the soil and in view of that whether they are the owners of the minerals underneath the soil. The properties were situated in Malabar area of the State. The question for consideration in that case was regarding the royalty payable by the petitioners therein on the minerals extracted from the properties belonging to them. The contention advanced by the petitioners therein was that in so far as they continue to be the owners of the soil there is a presumpt....

2011 0 Supreme(Ker) 238

Section 1 of the Act provides, among other things, that the Act applies to all Hindu public religious institutions and endowments of the whole of the Malabar District, but does not apply to Jain religious institutions and endowments. "Malabar District" is to be understood with reference to Section 5(2) of the States Re-organization Act, 1956 and "Malabar area" means the area comprised in Malabar District - See Section 6 (9a) of HR & CE Act.

2011 0 Supreme(Ker) 240

Section 1 of the Act provides, among other things, that the Act applies to all Hindu public religious institutions and endowments of the whole of the Malabar District, but does not apply to Jain religious institutions and endowments. "Malabar District" is to be understood with reference to Section 5(2) of the States Re-organization Act, 1956 and "Malabar area" means the area comprised in Malabar District - See Section 6 (9a) of HR & CE Act.

1998 0 Supreme(P&H) 1031

Swords were recovered from the possession of Sampuran Singh and Subhash, appellants. Investigation was conducted and accused were arrested. On the completion of the investigation of the case, the accused were sent to the Court of the Illaqa Magistrate, who supplied the copies of the documents to the accused and vide commitment order dated 24.8.1992 committed the appellants and their companions Ramo and Phoolwati to the Court of sessions. Blood-stained clothes of the injured were also taken into possession and those were sent to the office of the Director, Forensic Science L....