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Declaration under the Income Declaration Scheme cannot lead to non-declarant’s immunity from taxation: SC

Supreme Court: The bench of UU Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat*, JJ has held that the declaration under the Income Declaration Scheme

Case Briefs High Courts

[SC Collegium December Meeting] Newspaper reports are of no evidentiary value and Courts would be transgressing their well settled limitation if cognizance were to be taken of such unsubstantiated and unverified reports: Del HC

Delhi High Court: In a matter wherein, details were sought with regard to Supreme Court Collegium meeting held on 12-12-2018, Yashwant Varma,

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | Society has a vital interest in grant or refusal of bail because criminal offence is the offence against the society; Bail applications rejected in fraud case under Epidemic Diseases Act

Uttaranchal High Court: Alok Kumar Verma, J. rejected three bail applications of the applicants who were in custody for the offence under

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can step-children claim property right in mother’s mehar after her death? Does a registered mehar deed become unenforceable for being nominal? SC answers

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai*, JJ., upheld the impugned judgment of the High Court wherein

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Forcing buyers to purchase insurance policies? Even if dealers offer to sell insurance policies to customers, customers may yet have option to buy such policies from alternative channels: CCI

Competition Commission of India (CCI): The Coram of Ashok Kumar Gupta (Chairperson) and Sangeeta Verma and Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi (Members) addressed a

Case Briefs High Courts

In view of changed definition of rape under S. 375 (b) of IPC pari materia to S. 3(b) of POCSO Act, whether sexual intercourse is necessary to attract ingredients of offence of rape or penetrative sexual assault? Chh HC elaborates

Chhattisgarh High Court: Addressing a case wherein a minor girl was subjected to sexual, Deepak Kumar Tiwari, J., held that, In view

Case Briefs District Court

Can Director of a company be automatically, vicariously liable for commission of an offence on behalf of company under S. 138 NI Act? Patiala House Courts answers

Patiala House Courts, New Delhi: Shreya Arora Mehta, Metropolitan Magistrate, while addressing a matter with regard to Section 138 of the Negotiable

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | Simplicitor registration of FIR/s by itself cannot have any nexus with the breach of maintenance of public order; Detention order quashed

Gujarat High Court: Rajendra M. Sareen, J. allowed a petition which was directed against the detention order passed by respondent–detaining authority in

Case Briefs High Courts

Illegitimate child’s right to be considered for Compassionate appointment: Read what Chh HC says

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agarwal, J., held that an illegitimate son would be entitled to consideration on compassionate ground and cannot

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | State directed to take steps to frame and notify Rules for Registration of Sikh Marriages

Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, ACJ. and Ramesh Chandra Khulbe, J. took up a PIL filed by

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | Principle of Natural Justice demands petitioner-miller to be associated with stock verification by Food Corporation of India; physical verification set aside

Punjab and Haryana High Court: The question before Jaishree Thakur J., was whether physical verification conducted by Food Corporation of India was

Case Briefs High Courts

Can unmarried daughters claim expenses of marriage from their parents under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956? Chh HC addresses

Chhattisgarh High Court: While stating that, in Indian society, normally expenses are required to be incurred for pre-marriage and also at the

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Can States levy ‘Entry Tax’? West Bengal Taxation Tribunal explains

West Bengal Taxation Tribunal: The Coram of Justice Malay Marut Banerjee (Chairman) and Suranjan Kundu (Judicial Member) and Chanchalmal Bachhawat (Technical Member),

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Does the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 eclipse the Industrial Disputes (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 1958? SC refuses to decide the issue as the first Court

Supreme Court: In the case where it was argued before the Court that the Industrial Disputes (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 1958 which received

Case Briefs High Courts

Can maternity leave benefits extend beyond the period when contractual period of an ad hoc employee comes to an end? Del HC analyses

Delhi High Court: In a claim of maternity benefit by a contractual employee, the Division Bench of Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh,

Case Briefs High Courts

Gau HC | Sexual offences against minor cannot be compromised by parents; HC rejects application to enforce compromise

Gauhati High Court: Arun Dev Choudhury, J., held that sexual offences against minor cannot be compromised by parents. An FIR was lodged

Case Briefs High Courts

Bar on Government servants to engage in strikes? Ker HC elaborates

Kerala High Court: While expressing that, it is the duty of the welfare Government to protect not only the citizens, but to

Case Briefs Supreme Court

[Bomikhal Flyover Collapse] Is permanent debarment of guilty contractor too harsh? What makes an order a pre-determined one? Supreme Court answers

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of M. R. Shah* and B.V. Nagarathna, JJ., held that if a tentative decision is taken

Case Briefs High Courts

Every Advocate is a Court officer and part & parcel of justice delivery system: Madras HC found a Govt. Advocate demanding bribes at the cost of justice

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of K. Kalyanasundaram and R. Hemalatha, JJ., expressed that, the Government advocate being the representative of