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Tri HC | Custodial interrogation necessary to book associates to the offence; Court denies bail application of accused under S. 409, IPC

Tripura High Court: S.G. Chattopadhyay, J., rejected a bail application which had been filed by accused petitioner for granting pre arrest bail

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | No prosecution against public servants without prior approval of government; HC dismisses CBI’s revision petition

Kerala High Court: Narayana Pisharadi, J., dismissed the revision petition filed by CBI due to its failure to obtain prior sanction of

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT | Failure to furnish annual returns not a justifiable ground for striking off the name from RoC-Restores the name

National Company Law Tribunal Allahabad (NCLT): Justice (Retd.) Rajesh Dayal Khare, Judicial Member, while ordering the Registrar of Companies to restore the

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT | Amount received by Revenue, as deposit or pre-deposit unauthorisedly or under mistaken notion, etc., cannot be retained by Revenue; Tribunal allows appeal

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): Ashok Jindal (Judicial Member) allowed an appeal which was filed against the impugned order

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | Absence of satisfaction note recorded by AO in case of searched person makes the assessment under S. 153 C of IT Act, 1961 invalid

Orissa High Court: A Division bench of S. Muralidhar CJ and B.P Routray J. allowed the petition and sets aside the impugned

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT | Whether credit of Excise Duty/Additional Customs Duty (CVD) on inputs and capital goods and credit of Service Tax paid on input services which have been used for construction of Mall, further used/usable for providing taxable output service admissible? Tribunal answers

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): The Coram of Dilip Gupta (President) and P. Anjani Kumar (Technical Member), partly allowed

Case Briefs High Courts

[Bengal Post Poll Violence]Cal HC | Retired Chief Justice of Calcutta HC Manjula Chellur to monitor SIT in the Poll violence cases

Calcutta High Court: The Full Bench of Rajesh Bindal, ACJ and I.P. Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Subrata Talukdar, JJ., in furtherance

Case Briefs High Courts

J&K and Ladakh HC | Freedom of Press v. Breach of Peace and Defamation of authority; HC holds no fetters can be placed on the press by registering FIR

Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court: Rajnesh Oswal, J., quashed the FIR registered against a journalist for publishing the news report disclosing

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Absent direct evidence, SC invokes S. 113-A of Evidence Act to uphold conviction of husband, mother-in-law for abetment of suicide

Supreme Court: A Division Bench of S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari, JJ. refused to interfere in the judgment passed by the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Mere reference to factual aspects to conclude question of law does not mean facts and evidence have been reappreciated: SC restates law on second appeal under S. 100 CPC

Supreme Court: A 3-Judge Bench of N.V. Ramana, CJI and A.S. Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ. upheld the judgment of the Madras

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SEBI | A ‘no go show’–Ex-CNBC anchor, family in quagmire for fraudulent trading-Affirms interim order

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Madhabi Puri Buch, Whole Time Member, while affirming the interim order, rejected all the submission

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | E-publishing of old gazettes to be done within six months; Court directs State to submit compliance report

Gujarat High Court: The Division Bench of Vineet Kothari, ACJ and Umesh A. Trivedi, J., allowed a petition which was filed praying

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC allows reduction in sentence under S. 498-A IPC if husband pays Rs 3 lakh compensation to wife, children

Supreme Court: A Division Bench of Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ. agreed to reduce the sentence of the appellant−husband convicted

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker | What sort of reasoning is this? HC slams Authorization Committee for rejecting Kidney donation application because the donor has criminal antecedents

Kerala High Court: P.V.Kunhikrishnan, J., criticized the decision of the District Level Authorization Committee for transplantation of Human Organs, wherein application of

Case Briefs High Courts

Jhar HC | Can a criminal case be decided ex-parte? What is the resort in cases of non-appearance of counsel of the accused? HC answers

Jharkhand High Court: Anubha Rawat Choudhary, J., set aside the order of conviction under Section 304A of IPC passed without hearing the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Repeated inquiries for verification of caste certificates detrimental to members of SC/ST: Supreme Court states when reopening inquiry into caste certificate is permissible

Supreme Court: A Division Bench of L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose, JJ. reversed a judgment of the Madras High Court delivered

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CAT | Can family pension be equated with a compassionate appointment? Can employer deny grant of one benefit because the other one was refused by beneficiary? Tribunal answers

Central Administrative Tribunal: Mohd. Jamshed, Member (A), held that compassionate appointment cannot be equated with family pension. Slamming the respondents for their

Case Briefs High Courts

[Mental Health] Ker HC | “Good Samaritans are absent”; HC issues detailed directions for handling cases of mentally ill prisoners where family/friends shows reluctance to take their custody

Kerala High Court: V.G. Arun, J., addressed the instant suo motu case pertaining to the plight of mentally ill remand prisoners who

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT | Can service tax be levied on the composite works contracts services? Tribunal answers

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): The Coram of Ashok Jindal (Judicial Member) and Sanjiv Srivastava (Technical Member) allowed an

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Texas Legislation imposing a “near complete ban on abortions” gets a green signal as SCOTUS declines to grant any relief on the matter

Supreme Court of The United States: In a significant decision which can have major repercussions on a woman’s choice to abort in