Gujarat High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Prima-facie, a manmade disaster has occurred where many lives have been lost and families have grieved today for the loss of lives in their respective families.”

Continue reading
time barred debts
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court reiterated that the laws of limitation only bar the remedy and do not extinguish the right, except in cases where title is acquired by prescription.

Continue reading
Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Bombay High Court noted that the applicant was in jail for the last nine years and during trial he was on bail for some period, and he did not misuse the liberty granted to him.

Continue reading
Allahabad High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Insofar as Rule 6-D of Order VIII C.P.C., it clearly provides for “Effect of discontinuance of suit” that if in any case in which the defendant sets up a counterclaim, the suit of the plaintiff is stayed, discontinued or dismissed, the counter-claim may nevertheless be proceeded with.”

Continue reading
Kerala High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The Office is duty bound to list matters before the concerned Judge strictly as per the roster, unless otherwise ordered by the Chief Justice. Any deviation from this direction, thereby causing difficulty to the Judges or Advocates appearing in the matter, will invite disciplinary action against the officials concerned.”

Continue reading
Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Delhi High Court noted that there was a delay in forwarding the punishment inquiry to the Inspecting Judge, which contravened Rule 1273 of the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018.

Continue reading
Andhra Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If the intention of the Parliament were to vest the power of extending the mandate of an Arbitrator under Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 only in High Court as envisaged under Section 11, then nothing could have prevented it from providing so.”

Continue reading
Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that the mere ipse dixit of the petitioners was the prejudice and monetary loss caused to them; not even a single instance of a junior employee was promoted before a senior employee was presented by the petitioners.

Continue reading
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court held that the writ petition is maintainable due to the pure legal questions involved regarding the applicability of SARFAESI Act provisions to HFCs for amounts below the Rs. 20 Lakhs threshold.

Continue reading
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP High Court noted that even if the receipt book was not an EFT Book, it had the seal of the North-Central Railway, creating the impression of official railway documentation.

Continue reading
Punjab and Haryana High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“In most of the photographs, it is evident that after cutting down of such wild growth of cannabis, a part of it is still lying scattered though major part or it has been transported but to which place or what has been done to those cut-out cannabis has not been explained.”

Continue reading
Calcutta High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The State has, in derogation of West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 and the law declared under Article 141 of the Constitution, decided who would be the surveying and data collecting authority for the Commission. The Commission has been reduced to a handmaiden and or a compulsively obedient pet by the State.

Continue reading
Tripura High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The anganwadi centres are the creation of the Intensive Child Development Services Scheme, launched in 1975 to address the issues of health, nutrition, and education needs of children and each anganwadi centre is managed by one anganwadi worker and one anganwadi helper to implement the Scheme.

Continue reading
Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Bombay High Court held that leave encashment is akin to a salary, which is a property, and depriving a person of his property without any valid statutory provision would violate Article 300-A of the Constitution.

Continue reading
Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Delhi High Court says that being a government employee, the appellant cannot be permitted to be free by merely contending that the accounts, though in his name, were being managed by the co-accused.

Continue reading
National Company Law Tribunal
Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

The Merger scheme aims to restructure and streamline the operations of the applicant companies to achieve operational efficiencies and facilitate future growth and expected to create synergies, reduce costs, and create value for shareholders of the involved entities.

Continue reading
Bombay High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court referred to MAT’s finding that the petitioners were empowered to terminate the services of a probationer in case of misconduct, provided that such misconduct is proved after an opportunity of being heard is availed to the respondent. However, the same was not followed by the petitioners.

Continue reading
Himachal Pradesh High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Failure on the part of a government hospital to provide the timely medical treatment to a person in need of such treatment results violation of his right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, as has been done in the instant case.”

Continue reading
Delhi High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Since the parties to disputes were closely related to each other and the dispute between parties was amicably settled, instead of imposing the costs upon the petitioner, he is directed to plant 30 saplings of trees.

Continue reading
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
Case BriefsTribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

The NCLT directed the Resolution Professional to hand over control of Syska LED Lights Pvt. Ltd. back to the Corporate Debtor, if it had been taken over.

Continue reading