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Amalgamation does not necessarily nullify tax assessment as only the outer shell of the amalgamating company gets destroyed but the business and the adventure lives on: SC

It is essential to look beyond the mere concept of destruction of corporate entity which brings to an end or terminates any assessment proceedings.

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Masjid Land Title Dispute a matter of national dispute; Arguments lead off in High Court [Religious character]

Allahabad High Court: The hearings on the dispute of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque have begun in full swing and as an

Case Briefs High Courts

Law Officers perform their duties without profit motive and with a service mentality for a nominal fee as compared to their lucrative private practice: Madras HC

Madras High Court: Expressing that, Legal profession is a noble profession, and it is the lawyer, who plays a predominant role in

Case Briefs High Courts

LOC issued against Rana Ayyub: Infringement of Human Rights and restraint of her freedom of speech and expression? Read what Del HC says

Delhi High Court: While expressing that a LOC is a coercive measure to make a person surrender, Chandra Dhari Singh, J., noting

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether Hero Electric will have the exclusive rights to use the ‘Hero’ brand name for electric vehicles? Read Delhi HC’s decision

Delhi High Court: Vibhu Bakhru, J., forms an arbitration tribunal to adjudicate the matter with regard to use the brand name/trademark “Hero”.

Case Briefs High Courts

Chh HC | Criminal trial and confiscation proceedings may run simultaneously; Once the information of confiscation proceeding under S. 52 (e) Indian Forest Act is given to DM, Trial Magistrate has no power over it

Chhattisgarh High Court: Rajani Dubey, J., dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are that a tractor

Case Briefs Supreme Court

SC allows Tamil Nadu to grant 50% reservation for in-service doctors in Super Specialty Medical Courses

Supreme Court: In the issue relating to the reservation of 50% Super Specialty seats for in-service candidates in Government Medical Colleges in

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | Court orders release of vehicles confiscated under the Indian Forest Act with unprecedented observations

Calcutta High Court: Rabindranath Samanta, J. allowed a criminal revision petition which was filed aggrieved by the order of Magistrate wherein he

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC deals whether an international commercial arbitral award rendered outside India between the parties who have no connection to India can be enforced in India

Karnataka High Court: A Division bench of Ritu Raj Awasthi, CJ., and Suraj Govindaraj, J. issued notice to the respondent and listed

Case Briefs High Courts

Father of deceased accuses brother-in-law for her suicide: If chargesheet has already been filed, is there any need of custodial interrogation? Del HC decides

Delhi High Court: Chandra Dhari Singh, J., decides a bail matter wherein a woman was alleged to have committed suicide due to

Case Briefs High Courts

Mother alleged to have extra-marital affair, will father be granted custody of children? Guj HC decides

Gujarat High Court: Ashok Kumar C. Joshi, J., denied granting child custody to father, wherein the mother was alleged to have extra-marital

Case Briefs High Courts

Megh HC | Surprise checks on Army vehicles after allegations of drug transit; Therapy centres to be set up within State

Meghalaya High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ. and W. Diengdoh, J. took up a PIL suggesting surprise checks on

Case Briefs High Courts

If a girl runs away voluntarily without any persuasion, can boy with whom she eloped be held responsible for abducting the girl? Chh HC explains

Chhattisgarh High Court: Deepak Kumar Tiwari, J., held that, when the accused has not played any active role or persuaded the victim

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether power of Maintenance Tribunal under Senior Citizen Act is circumscribed to ordering of monthly allowance? Ker HC elaborates

Kerala High Court: In a matter, wherein a senior citizen has approached the Court with her grievance with respect to her son,

Case Briefs High Courts

[NI Act] Kar HC decides contours of law in a classic case where cash of Rs 2 crore was borrowed as hand loan and a cheque obtained for the repayment of the same got dishonoured

Karnataka High Court: M. Nagaprasanna, J. allowed the petition and quashed the impugned order regarding attachment of property and auction notification. The

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Acquitted in the criminal case but employer still going ahead with the disciplinary proceeding? Read the law laid down by Supreme Court

“The purpose of a disciplinary proceeding by an employer is to enquire into an allegation of misconduct by an employee which results in a violation of the service rules governing the relationship of employment.”

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

SCOTUS rejects Wisconsin SC endorsed Redistricting Plan increasing the number of majority-Black districts in the Wisconsin State Assembly

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS): In the instant matter, the SCOTUS deliberated upon a Redistricting Plan prepared by the Governor

Case Briefs High Courts

Do Family Courts have to remain as a neutral umpire of the real dispute between the parties? Ker HC decides

Kerala High Court: Expressing that, Family Court has been functioning in like manner of an ordinary Civil Court, the Division Bench of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Can Commissioner suspend or initiate departmental proceedings against an Additional Municipal Commissioner under Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949?

“A legislative intent cannot be to leave an employee scot-free though he has indulged into serious misconduct.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Caste can be the starting point for providing internal reservation but not the sole basis: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: In a case relating to reservation of seats in Educational Institutions, the bench of L. Nageswara Rao* and BR Gavai,