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The Court held that communication of the Section 69, CGST Act order may be made electronically, in addition to the modes permitted under BNSS and other legally permissible modes of communication.
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The High Court held that employees who have worked for six months or more in a particular year would be entitled to the benefit of annual increment and their retiral benefits would be calculated by reckoning such increment while calculating their last drawn wages.
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The Court noted that the authorities disclosed a cleavage of opinion on whether separate appeals are required where a suit and counterclaim are disposed of by a common judgment; the practice of drawing up decrees from such judgments differs across States.
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Holding that FDA’s recalled restrictions on ACILOC drug stocks stood neutralised, the Court directed fresh show-cause notices under Rule 85, Drugs Rules, 1945, before any further action.
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The Court remarked that the daughters, despite being major, educated and legally competent women, were deprived of their liberty for a prolonged period, solely because they exercised their constitutionally protected freedom of conscience and chose to profess a religion different from that professed by their family.
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The Court particularly disapproved of the manner in which the High Court had examined the disputed questions “as if it were an expert of experts” and concluded that the directions flowing from such examination were “clearly indefensible”.
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The High Court held that the enquiry under Section 12-A(1), Commercial Courts Act is limited to whether the suit genuinely contemplated urgent interim relief and that the plaint must be examined holistically without adjudicating the merits of the interim relief.
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The Court explained that Insider Trading, in essence, is a “dealing in a company’s securities having been informed by confidential information which is likely to affect the price of the securities in the market, once such information is made public”.
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NCLT observed that it is not endowed with the powers of jurisdiction or authority to analyse or evaluate the commercial decision of the CoC.
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The Bombay High Court held that employees who had rendered more than six months of qualifying service from the date of their last annual increment could not be denied the benefit of annual increment merely because they retired before 1 July.
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The deceased had made the “supreme sacrifice” in the performance of his duty and had thereafter been posthumously decorated with the Shaurya Chakra, India’s third-highest peacetime gallantry award.
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The Tribunal held that the proviso inserted to Section 112(8) of the CGST Act by the Finance Act, 2025 does not operate retrospectively. Since the proceedings had commenced prior to 01-10-2025, the appellant’s vested right of appeal could not be burdened by a subsequently introduced condition requiring pre-deposit of 10 % of the penalty.
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Supreme Court enhanced maintenance for a wife undergoing cancer treatment and her 2 minor children, holding that PF and ESPP deductions are benefits accruing to the husband and not permanent charges.
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The High Court held that a solitary Instagram compliment, however inelegant, cannot be forced into the statutory mould of voyeurism, stalking, or insult to a woman’s modesty without proof of the essential ingredients of those offences.
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The Court remarked that recently there had been instances where petitioners-in-person have not followed the decorum of the Court and acted in a hasty and unruly manner. They used the video recordings of court proceedings to malign the image of the courts.
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Delhi HC refused regular bail to Sushil Kumar, holding that hostile witnesses and the deposition of Ashok Dhankad did not amount to a genuine change in circumstances
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For practicing in High Court such advocates having a provisional enrolment certificate issued by Bar Council of U.P. must also have provisional advocate roll of High Court, Allahabad or Lucknow
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The High Court held that the victim’s testimony was natural, credible and inspiring of confidence, while the trial court’s appreciation of evidence was not only unreasonable but perverse, rendering its conclusions untenable and contrary to any possible view of the evidence.
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Supreme Court directed all States and Union Territories to strictly comply with its earlier direction to register an FIR upon receiving information regarding any missing person, clarifying that the direction applies irrespective of age or gender.
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The Court noted that the presence of the appellant at the time of occurrence at the scene of crime has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt and no active role has been assigned to him and the chain of the evidence is not consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused.
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