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Adjudication proceedings and criminal proceedings can be launched simultaneously; Madras High Court reiterates, setting aside of assessment orders on technical grounds not enough to quash criminal proceedings

Madras High Court: G. Chandrasekharan, J. declined to quash prosecution against actor SJ Suryah as the order of the Income Tax Appellate

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No illegality found in the impugned order during revision; Del HC upholds discharge of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia along others

Delhi High Court: Geetanjali Goel, J. upholds the discharge of Delhi CM and others in the Anshu Prakash assault case having found

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Del HC | Commercial wisdom of the parties in an agreement not to be revisited; arbitral tribunal cannot re-work the terms owing to commercial difficulties of one party

Delhi High Court: Vibhu Bakhru, J. while hearing an application against award of an arbitral tribunal has held that it would not

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Delhi HC| Refund cannot be adjusted while appeal to earlier challenge to assessment is pending

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Manmohan and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora JJ. disposed the petition and directed the respondents to

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Cal HC │ Act of disconnecting the electricity supply for non-payment of the balance dues on the disputed bill beyond authority of CESC Ltd.; Petition allowed

Calcutta High Court: Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J. allowed a petition directing the CESC Ltd. to restore the electricity supply of the petitioner unconditionally.

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Ori HC highlights need for equity in cases of deferred payments; Interest to be paid in delayed payment of arrears due to administrative laches

Orissa High Court: S. K Panigrahi, J. directed the State to pay simple interest computed at the rate of 6% per annum

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Detenue is ambivalent in her stand between her desire to be with her husband and fear of being ill-treated by the parents of her husband; Ker HC did not issue Habeas Corpus

Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of K Vinod Chandra and C Vijayachandran, JJ. dismissed the petition and rejected the relief sought

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Does DRT has power to restrain a person from travelling abroad? Does Art. 21 includes right to travel abroad? Bom HC discusses

Bombay High Court: Expressing that the right to travel abroad has been spelt out from the expression “personal liberty” in Article 21

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Kar HC | Passing an order of debarment or blacklisting without prior notice is bad in law; Affects Right to Life

Karnataka High Court: S.G Pandit, J. disposed of the petition leaving respondent-Railway authorities at liberty to take action against the catering services

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Tri HC | Employer harassing employee by not releasing gratuity and leave encashment; Appeal allowed

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J. while noting that there were no legitimate grounds to deny the employee of gratuity and other

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In matrimonial offences, quashing is welcome as it shows that parties have decided to put an end to the lis as well as to the misery they undergo: Del HC

Delhi High Court: Stating that, cases under Section 376 of Penal Code, 1860 should not be quashed and should not be taken

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Del HC | Faces cosmetics restrained from selling products under the trademark “Velvet Matte”

Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J. granted an ad interim ex parte injunction in favour of Colorbar cosmetics Private Limited by

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Guj HC | Bail granted to a 16-year-old boy accused of having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old boy

Gujarat High Court: Samir Dave, J., granted bail to the accused while prohibiting him from accessing the society in which the claimed

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Whether offence of bigamy is a continuing offence or the proceedings instituted for offence punishable for bigamy under S. 494 CrPC can be obliterated on the ground of delay? Kar HC answers

Karnataka High Court: M. Nagaprasanna, J. allowed the petition in part and remarked the protagonists in the quadrangle to resolve the issue

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Kar HC enlists causes of delay in completion of investigation and lays down strict guidelines for speedy investigation

Karnataka High Court: S. Sunil Dutt Yadav, J. enlisted a few causes of delay in investigation, the principal causes of low rate

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Police post not a place where public servants are attacked with forearms, Dandas and lathis or stone pelting: Del HC

Delhi High Court: In a case wherein a police officer got injured due to an attack by an illegal weapon out of

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If wife is earning, can it operate as a bar from awarding maintenance to suit lifestyle of her husband in matrimonial home? Tel HC answers

Telangana High Court: Sathish Reddy, J., while addressing a maintenance case, expressed that, the wife’s earning capacity cannot be a bar from

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Can merely smuggling of gold without any connection to threat to economic security of India amount to terrorist act? Read what Del HC says

Delhi High Court: While granting bail to men accused of smuggling gold, the Division Bench of Mukta Gupta and Mini Pushkarna, JJ.,

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Tel HC discusses contours of law regarding issuing notice under S. 41 A CrPC vis a vis grant of anticipatory bail

Telangana High Court: Juvvadi Sridevi, J. granted anticipatory bail subject to completion of investigation and filing of the final report. The facts

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[Fake Rape] Utt HC | Sexual intercourse found to be a voluntary and conscious act of prosecutrix; HC acquits man wrongfully convicted for rape

Uttaranchal High Court: Ravindra Maithani, J. allowed an appeal against an order of the Trial Court which convicted a man of raping