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Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Housing and Slum Development Scam; Supreme Court refuses to stay proceedings, upholds High Court’s order

“…the absence of reasons struck at the legitimacy of the impugned judgment. It caused prejudice no doubt, to the extent that the appellants were unable to furnish grounds on which their special leave petitions were based.”

Case Briefs High Courts

J&K and Ladakh HC | Teenager dies due to electrocution; HC grants 3 lakhs compensation holding State strictly liable for negligence in maintaining transmission lines

Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court: Sanjeev Kumar, J., applied the principle of strict liability to grant compensation to the petitioners

Case Briefs High Courts

Tri HC | Whether mere act of a bandh call and blocking of a highway would constitute the offence punishable under S. 8-B of the National Highways Act, without any element of mischief? Court analyzes

Tripura High Court: Akil Kureshi, CJ., decided on a matter wherein the petitioners had prayed for quashing and setting aside various first

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Decoding Winding up by Special Resolution under the Companies Act, 2013

by Saai Sudharsan Sathiyamoorthy and Chandramouli Prabhakar*

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SEBI | Calibrated efforts cancelling out the chance of coincidence of matching trades in illiquid scrip does not go scot free-Restricted from the market for manipulation

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)-Madhabi Puri Buch, Whole Time Member, while exercising powers under Section 19 read with Sections 11(1),

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | “No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.” HC holds a married daughter and maternal parents are entitled to claim compensation under MV Act

Kerala High Court: C.S. Dias, J., held that a married daughter and parents of the deceased woman are legal representative under the

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Contempt of Court

by Nihit Singhal†

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Arbitrability of Disputes under Sections 241 and 242 of the Companies Act, 2013

by Shreni Shetty†

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | Adverse possession is a right which comes into play not just because someone loses his right to reclaim the property out of continuous and wilful neglect but also on account of possessor’s positive intent to dispossess-one

Orissa High Court: D. Dash J. dismissed the second appeal being devoid of merits. The Appellant filed the instant appeal under Section

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT | Debt acknowledged in emails, CIRP initiated resultantly-Appoints IRPM and declares moratorium

National Company Law Tribunal, New Delhi Bench, New Delhi –The Coram of P.S.N Prasad, Judicial Member and Narender Kumar Bhola, Technical Member

Case Briefs High Courts

[RTI] HP HC | Birth and Death Register are public documents and admissible under S. 35 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872; To be given even if asked on a simple paper

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Tarlok Singh Chauhan J. directed all the Panchayat Secretaries in the State of Himachal Pradesh to provide death

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SEBI | GDR| Catches the principal architect in activation & orchestration of the fraudulent scheme –Leaves one being ‘under liquidation’, rest restrained from accessing the market

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)-G Mahalingam, Whole Time Member, restricted the entities from the securities market, involved in the fraudulent

Case Briefs Supreme Court

“Voluntary retirement v/s Resignation”; Supreme Court cogitates technicalities of legal terms and their implication in Armed Forces

“Having tendered ‘resignation’, the respondent had to suffer the consequences and could not be permitted to take ‘U’ turn and say that what the respondent wanted was ‘premature retirement’ and not ‘resignation’.”

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT | Deducing from the acts and the tactics of the corporate debtor failing the test of legality, initiates CIRP

National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, Mumbai- The Coram of Ashok Kumar Borah, Judicial Member, and Shyam Babu Gautam, Technical Member while

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What is the Impact of the FPCE Judgment on MOFA

by Dormaan Jamshid Dalal*

Case Briefs High Courts

MP HC | Whether the accused can be allowed to languish in jail or not when the prosecution itself is not in a position to provide DNA test report? Court answers

Madhya Pradesh High Court: G.S. Ahluwalia, J., allowed a bail application which had been filed in connection with Crime No.337/2020 registered by

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The Model Tenancy Act, 2021: A Step Forward

by Abhishek Gulatee[1]

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CBI | Does not find any fault in the coda but questions the agenda | Accepts CBI’s closure report but questions the investigation

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): Shivank Singh, Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI), while accepting the closure report questioned the delayed investigation by the

Case Briefs

Tax liability of a power generator (which also manufactures sugar) supplying electricity to a distributor, whether a Question of law or of fact? Supreme Court clarifies

Whether the State had the legislative competence to levy duty on the sale of electricity to an intermediary distributor is a question of law.