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Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Does empty packaging drums of cenvatable input attract payment of excise duty or cenvat credit? CESTAT answers

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): While dealing with an issue relating to payment of 6% on empty packaging drums

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court: Delhi police well within jurisdiction to issue show cause to restaurant serving alcohol beyond permissible limits; Writ petition not maintainable

Delhi High Court: Jasmeet Singh, J. did not interfere with the impugned show cause notice issued by Delhi Police to a restaurant

Case Briefs High Courts

Karnataka High Court | Writ petition by XIAOMI India premature when alternate remedy available under S. 37 FEMA, 1999 left unattended

Karnataka High Court: S G Pandit, J. declared the present writ petition filed by XIAOMI India under Article 226 of

Legislation Updates Rules & Regulations

Remunerations of Executive Officers in Arbitration Council decide vide Arbitration Council of India (Terms and conditions and salary and allowances payable to Chairperson and Members) Rules, 2022

On 9-7-2022, Central Government notified Arbitration Council of India (Terms and conditions and salary and allowances payable to Chairperson and Members) Rules,

Case Briefs High Courts

Rajasthan High Court | No award can be remitted to the arbitrator where there are no findings in the contentious issues of the award

Rajasthan High Court: Ashok Kumar Gaur, J. found that the writ petition by the petitioner lacks merit and dismissed it

Case Briefs High Courts

Does incessantly filing complaints for tarnishing one’s reputation amount to mental cruelty? Punjab & Haryana High Court answers

Punjab & Haryana High Court: While deciding an appeal arising from a divorce petition, the bench of Ritu Bahri, J. and Meenakshi

Legislation Updates Rules & Regulations

Meity issues Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021

On 6-7-2022, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology published draft amendment rules to amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media

Legislation Updates Notifications

SEBI issues circular on framework for Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience for all Qualified Registrars to an Issue and Share Transfer Agents

On 06-07-2022, Securities and Exchange Board of India (‘SEBI’) issued a circular on framework for Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience for all

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

DCDRC directs Facebook to run online scam related awareness advertisements on various media platforms in order to neutralize the effect of misleading ads on its page

“In today’s modern world of virtual life, most of the people are familiar with mobile technology which comes with great responsibility”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can Court direct a husband to surrender as a condition for pre-arrest bail of his wife? Supreme Court decides

Supreme Court: In an interesting case the Vacation Bench comprising Dinesh Maheshwari and Krishna Murari, JJ., disapproved a strange bail condition imposed

Case Briefs High Courts

Gujarat High Court denies bail to a 66 year old over recovery of poppy straw in commercial quantity from his property

Gujarat High Court: S.H. Vora, J. rejected a bail application filed in relation to the FIR registered for the offence punishable under

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT| Auction purchaser responsible for claims/ liabilities/ obligations of Corporate Debtor

National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai: The coram of H.V. Subba Rao, Judicial Member and Chandra Bhan Singh, Technical Member, declared that the

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Case Briefs High Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court lambasts police force for blatant callousness and failure in tracing an 11-year-old missing minor girl

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Rohit Arya and Milind Ramesh Phadke, JJ. took strong exception to the functioning of

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Whether a typographical error in mentioning a bank account number can have adverse impact on income tax assessment? ITAT deliberates

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Visakhapatnam: While deciding the instant appeal by the Revenue against the Order by CIT (A) deleting the

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT| Can Resolution Professional submit report prior to Adjudicating Authority’s direction?

National Company Law Tribunal, New Delhi: In a case where a Resolution Professional (RP) had submitted a report even prior to the

Case Briefs High Courts

Uttaranchal High Court allows stay on Government order banning animal slaughter on the occasion of Bakra Eid in Manglaur

Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi, C.J. and Ramesh Chandra Khulbe, J., allowed this writ petition imposing a stay,

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Can Lease Rental come under the purview of ‘Operational Debt’? NCLAT elucidates

National Company Law Tribunal, New Delhi: The Bench of Ashok Bhushan J., Chairperson, Rakesh Kumar Jain and Rakesh Kumar, JJ,

Case Briefs High Courts

Gujarat High Court | Delay in appointment of presiding officer of DRT leading to deprivation of legitimate right to speedy justice; Directions issued

Gujarat High Court: The Division Bench of Aravind Kumar, CJ. and Ashutosh J. Shastri, J. allowed a writ petition which was filed

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