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Madras High Court | Teachers directing their students to study well is part and parcel of teaching and would not amount to abetment to suicide

Madras High Court: In a case related to allegation of murder and rape of a 12th standard school-girl, G.K.Ilanthiraiyan, J.

Case Briefs High Courts

Repeated blocking of channels proving to be insufficient; Delhi High Court directs Telegram to disclose details of infringing defaulters

Infringers cannot be permitted to seek shelter under Telegram’s policies merely on the ground that its physical server is in Singapore. If the protection of copyright is not evolved as per the changing times, it would have a chilling effect on the progressive initiatives taken by educators in sharing their materials and ensuring accessibility.

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court| Challenging recruitment process and Physical Eligibility Test for being arbitrary on gender basis unacceptable after unsuccessful participation [Excise Constable Exam-2016]

[“In the present recruitment, females have succeeded in huge numbers, and it appears that unsuccessful male candidates are not able to cope up with the fact that females have overnumbered them in merit. It is an example of ‘male chauvinism’ which is unacceptable in twenty first century.”]

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Retroactive, True Retroactivity, Quasi-retroactivity, and Retrospective: Synonymous or distinct?

“Merely because a law operates on certain circumstances which are antecedent to its passing does not mean that it is retrospective.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC upholds applicability of SEBI Circular; but gives a green signal to Reliance Commercial Finance resolution to avoid “unscrambling of resolution process”

“Such unscrambling of the resolution process will not only prove time-consuming, but may also adversely affect the agreed realized gains to the retail debenture holders, who have already consented to the negotiated settlement before the High Court.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court restrains Dominick Pizza from using Dominos mark along with its dishes Cheese Burst and Pasta Italiano having deceptive similarity

Delhi High Court: In a case where Dominos IP Holder LLC, popularly known as Dominos (‘plaintiff’) was seeking protection of the mark

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether investigation post filing of an application for advance ruling would debar the applicant from seeking advance ruling? Telangana High Court answers

Telangana High Court: While allowing the instant petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, for quashing the

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether the assessee is entitled to claim the difference between the market price and the allotment price of shares, as an expenditure under Section 37 of IT Act? Delhi High Court analyses

Delhi High Court: On a question of law before the Court that whether the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (‘ITAT’) erred in law

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court grants bail to the accused in a case registered merely based on suspicion and confession statement

Madras High Court: In a case related to an appeal filed to set aside the judgment and enlarge the appellant

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether pleading guilty in the statement recorded under Section 313 CrPC sufficient for conviction or not? Allahabad High Court answers

Allahabad High Court: Samit Gopal, J. acquitted the appellant of the charges leveled against him of Section 307 of Penal

Case Briefs High Courts

Chhattisgarh High Court |Abusing in-laws and stopping the husband from meeting his parents would amount to cruelty

Chhattisgarh High Court: In a case relating to the appeal filed by the wife against the decision of the family

Case Briefs High Courts

Time of court and investigation agency both has been consumed; Delhi High Court directs Rs 25,000 as compensation towards “Green Highways Fund”

Delhi High Court: In a case pending for 5 years before Court, the parties finally reached compromise and sought quashing

Advance Rulings Case Briefs

Which services are covered under ‘Agricultural Extension Services’? Karnataka Authority for Advance Ruling explains

Authority for Advance Ruling (Karnataka): In a case relating to whether the services, including education and training to farmers with regard to

Legislation Updates Notifications

Ministry of Railways issues guidelines for implementation of GST implications on recovery of liquidated damages

On 10-08-2022, the Ministry of Railways has issued guidelines for implementation of Goods and Service Tax (‘GST') implications on recovery

Case Briefs District Court

Delhi Court denies bail to Chitra Ramakrishna former MD NSE, for alleged active involvement in illegal interception of telephone calls of NSE employees

Rouse Avenue District Courts, Delhi: In a case relating to illegal interception/monitoring of telephone calls of National Stock Exchange ‘NSE'

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT | Services involving supply of goods/deemed supply of goods to be classified under ‘works contract services’ only

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): The coram of Dilip Gupta (President) and P.V. Subba Rao (Technical Member) allowed the

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay HC examines Maharashtra Govt’s new policy for ‘Environmentally Safe Making and Immersion of Idols/Tazia’; directs the Authorities to adequately promote the Policy

Bombay High Court: While perusing the newly framed Policy for Environmentally Safe Making and Immersion of Idols/Tazia and its Enforcement

Case Briefs High Courts

Manipur High Court| Right to dignity of an accused does not dry out with the Judges, rather, it subsists beyond the prison gates and operates until his last breath

Manipur High Court: In a case where the criminal appeal was pending and the applicant convicted under Section 6 of the Protection

Case Briefs High Courts

Punjab & Haryana High Court orders for reinstatement of employees of Gurdwara Committee who were terminated on allegations of consumption of liquor

Punjab & Haryana High Court: While allowing the instant petition filed against the order, whereby the services of the petitioners were terminated