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Delhi High Court | Post sale discount given by Loreal India not to qualify as commensurate reduction in prices as required under Section 171 CGST Act, 2017

Delhi High Court: In a case filed by Loreal India Private Limited (petitioner) challenging the order dated 23-06-2022 passed by

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Karnataka HC | In sexual assault cases, DNA report favouring the accused will not automatically absolve such accused of the offences so alleged

Karnataka High Court: While deliberating over the instant petition seeking termination of proceedings under the provisions of the POCSO Act,

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Kerala High Court| Allegation of rape on false promise to marriage unsustainable, if the relationship between the two continued even after marriage of accused

Kerala High Court: In a petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for quashing the

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“Rise of the pseudo-therapists on public domain who are but camouflaged instagram influencers, needs to be regulated”; Karnataka HC expresses concern

Karnataka High Court: While deliberating over the instant petition seeking quashment of chargesheet filed against a “wellness therapist” under the

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Delhi High Court restrains APPLEPLANT being deceptively, visually and semantically similar to APPLESTREE

Delhi High Court: In a suit filed for injunction by the Plaintiff restraining the Defendant from selling, offering for sale,

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SC Collegium closes further deliberations on filling up vacancies in Supreme Court

Supreme Court: A bench of Uday Umesh Lalit, CJ. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S. Abdul Nazeer and K.M.

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Patna High Court held seats reserved for OBC/EBC for municipal body election illegal; Directed State Election Commission to re-notify seats reserved for OBC treating them as general seats

Patna High Court: In a case relating to the reservation to the backward class category for the post of Councillors

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Courts equally responsible to provide proper legal protection to minor rape victims; Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds life imprisonment of accused for minor’s rape and murder

Punjab and Haryana High Court: While dismissing the present appeal preferred by the appellant against judgment dated 09-08-2012 and the

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Madras High Court | Courts will not interfere or set aside an arbitral award, merely because an alternative view is possible; Adopt a hands-off approach

Madras High Court: In an intra-Court appeal filed against the order of the single judge, whereby, the judge allowed the

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2022 SCC Vol. 8 Part 4

“Age of Consent” under the POCSO Act: In this article, an attempt is being made to minutely scrutinise and analyse

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Able-bodied man obliged to earn by legitimate means and maintain wife, children’: Supreme Court, unhappy with Family Court’s verdict, directs husband to pay maintenance to his wife

Supreme Court: In an appeal directed against the judgment passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, confirming the Family Court’s order

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Bombay High Court quashes rape case FIR registered against son of CPM’s Kerala State Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

Bombay High Court: In a case filed for quashing of the charges registered against Binoy Kodiyeri (petitioner), son of CPM’s

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Kerala High Court | Elected Independent Candidate joining a political party or coalition, shall acquire disqualification as per Section 3(1)(c) of the Kerala Local Authorities (Prohibition of Defection) Act

Kerala High Court: In an appeal filed challenging the judgment of the Single Judge upholding the State Election Commission’s order of disqualifying

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SEBI issues circular on Participation of SEBI registered FPIs in Exchange Traded Commodity Derivatives in India

On 29-09-2022, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (‘SEBI’) has issued a circular on participation of SEBI registered Foreign

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Kerala High Court prohibits use of contract carriages and other transport vehicles in public places flouting prescribed safety standards

Kerala High Court: In a suo motu cognizance of the case relating to the use of contract carriages vehicles that

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[CAA-NRC Protest] Delhi Court denies bail to Saleem Malik due to sufficient incriminating material against him in North-East Delhi Riot case

Karkardooma Court, Delhi: In a bail application moved on behalf of applicant/accused Saleem Malik @ Munna under Section 437 Code

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Statement of rape victim cannot be treated as gospel truth to convict an accused; Punjab & Haryana High Court upholds order of acquittal by trial court

Punjab and Haryana High Court: While dismissing the instant appeal preferred by the appellant against the order dated 01-05-2019 of

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J&K and Ladakh HC | To prevent the “frittering away of the fruits of compromise” HC can quash proceedings for non-compoundable offences if parties have arrived at a settlement

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court: While deciding the instant petition wherein the Court was faced with the issue

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Threatening Judges with Contempt Pleas is unacceptable; Madhya Pradesh High Court warned litigants to desist from such adventurism

“Every order that is passed by a superior court, is liable to be followed by the lower court. Even assuming the case of the petitioners is to be accepted of certain misapplication of the law, that does not amount to contempt.”

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Tag line ‘PEHLE CHECK KAREN PHIR VISHWAS KAREN’ is identical and deceptively similar to tag line ‘PEHLE ISTEMAL KAREN PHIR VISHWAS KAREN’; Delhi Court restrains GTM Jewelry Mart

While determining whether there is infringement of trademark, one is not required to see dissimilarity, but one is required to see similarity and there is similarity of all words except one word, in the present case.