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Supreme Court| Principal employer cannot be directed to absorb contractual workers in absence of notification prohibiting contract labour, or allegations of contract being sham

Supreme Court reiterated that, in absence of any notification under S.10 of CLRA Act, 1970 and any allegations that the contract was sham and camouflage, the Courts cannot direct the principal employer to absorb contractual workers as employees

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay High Court grants interim injunction against Mumbai Khadi and Village Industries Association for allegedly using device mark/logo ‘KHADI’

The Court observed that Khadi & Village Industries Commission holds registration for its wordmark KHADI, label mark and device mark, for a plethora of classes and not limited to cloth or textile products.

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka HC | A third party’s privacy cannot be permitted to be violated on the specious plea of a husband seeking to prove his wife’s illicit relationship

A Family Court order allowed a husband to seek mobile tower record details of the petitioner’s mobile number, so that he can prove the existence of illicit relations between the petitioner and his wife. The Karnataka HC sternly quashed the same citing violation of petitioner’s Right to Privacy

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court | All schools to ensure that no EWS category student, recommended by the Department of Education, is denied admission

Justice CD Singh echoed Swami Vivekananda’s words that “Now if the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court directs Kendriya Vidyalayas to provide basic facilities to children with disabilities as provided under Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016

In this case, the father of a minor child having visual impairment of over 75%, filed a writ petition seeking grant of books, earning materials and assistive devices along with other facilities as provided under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Case Briefs High Courts

Andhra Pradesh High Court acquits a man accused of culpable homicide not amounting to murder; set aside conviction order of Session Court

Without there being any evidence as to the presence of the accused in the house at the time of the death of the deceased, especially when the material witnesses turned hostile, convicting the accused basing on the assumptions and presumptions by the Sessions Court was erroneous.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court | ‘Postings on Facebook cannot be treated as determinative of the location of a person at a particular point of time’

The Delhi High Court held that Facebook posts cannot be treated as determinative of the location of a person at a particular point of time. Therefore, the Court set aside the order of Intellectual Property Appellate Board and restored the rectification petitions filed before the Intellectual Property Appellate Board for re-hearing.

Telangana State Authority for Advance Ruling

Advance Rulings Case Briefs

TSAAR| Works executed for the Governmental Entity or Authority will be taxable at 9% CGST and SGST each

The Authority said that as the applicant entered into agreements with TSIICL for execution of contracts of buildings, warehouses, godowns , and TSIICL in turn let out the godowns for its customers on rent which amounts to use of the constructed premises for the purpose of business, thus, tax will be applicable at the rate of 9 percent CGST and SGST each.

Case Briefs High Courts

No patent infirmity in the order of conviction to render it erroneous; Kerala High Court rejects suspension of sentence to the husband in ‘Vismaya dowry death case’

The atrocities against women in their matrimonial homes are on the rise, and women committing suicide unable to bear the cruelty and harassment on demand of dowry are also rampant.

Case Briefs High Courts

Uttaranchal High Court grants bail to a Child-in-conflict with law considering that she was young and had less understanding to differentiate between right and wrong

A Child-in-conflict with law (CIL) was granted bail considering that she was a young girl; her family was poor; she had less understanding to distinguish between right and wrong and her family atmosphere was good. The Court also discussed situations in which a CIL could be denied bail even in bailable offences as per Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay High Court grants guardianship to biological parents of a child born out of their illegitimate relationship

“If the prayers of the petitioners in the present petition are not considered favorably, it would create a situation where the respondent already having given up any claims towards the minor child, she would be deprived of the right to be taken care of and maintained by the petitioners, who are more than willing to take care of her needs, being the biological parents of the minor child.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad HC restraints State Election Commission from declaring the results of Urban Local Body Elections till Dec 20

The High Court is deciding the PIL challenging Uttar Pradesh Government’s notification dated 05.12.2022, for not adhering to the Supreme Court’s directions in Suresh Mahajan v. State of Madhya Pradesh, 2022 SCC OnLine SC 589.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT exempts All India Football Federation from paying service tax in accordance with the tripartite agreement between parties

AIFF did not render any service but concurred with the agreement whereby the rights were transferred from ZEEL to IMGR

Case Briefs High Courts

Kerala High Court| Section 31 of Domestic Violence Act only applies to breach to protection orders; No penalty can be imposed for failure to pay maintenance

Kerala High Court held that Section 31 of D.V Act would apply only on violation of protection order passed under Section 20 of the D.V Act.

Case Briefs High Courts

Calcutta High Court |In absence of prescribed statutory form, filing of return/payment of tax sufficient compliance of Works Contract Composition Scheme

The High Court has also observed that the Service Tax Department cannot invoke the extended period on the sole ground of omission as the same can be invoked only when that there is a deliberate intention to evade payment of tax.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Why the Supreme Court directed GST Council to implement digital DIN system for communication between State Tax Officers and taxpayers

Supreme Court: In a significant case, the Division Bench of M.R. Shah* and B.V. Nagarathna, JJ., allowed the PIL filed

Case Briefs District Court

‘Offering pen, book while following her regularly was done to groom the child for his sexual intent’; Bombay Court convicts the man under POCSO

The Court observed that there is an increase in the cases of sexual offenses against the child. The child sexual abuse cases demonstrate the inhumane mindset of the accused. There is an adverse impact of the incident on the victim, on her family members, and even on society.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court grants ex parte ad interim injunction to Sukam Systems (P) Ltd. for its trade mark ‘Su-Kam’ against Lithium Power Energy (P) Ltd in a trade mark infringement suit

In the present case, Sukam Systems (P) Ltd. alleged infringement and passing of by Lithium Power Energy (P) Ltd. of its registered trade marks ‘Su-Kam’, ‘BIG conqueror Tubular Battery’ and ‘BIG Warrior Tubular Battery’.

Case Briefs High Courts

Can a ‘customer’ in a brothel be proceeded against criminally under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956; Kerala High Court answers

Kerala High Court held that the words ‘person with whom such prostitution is carried on’ as appearing in section 7(1) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 will include a ‘customer’. Thus, a customer in a brothel can be proceeded against criminally.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court grants permanent injunction to Lifelong Online Retail (P) Ltd for its mark ‘Lifelong’ in a trade mark infringement suit

The Delhi High Court restrained the defendant from dealing in any goods, under the impugned trade mark ‘Lifelong’ or any other mark as may be identical to or deceptively similar with the plaintiff’s (Lifelong Online Retail (P) Ltd.) registered trade mark ‘Lifelong’, to cause infringement of the plaintiff’s trade marks.