Case Briefs Archives

Jharkhand High Court | Criminal proceedings against Directors cannot continue when the Company has not been arrayed as a party

Jharkhand High Court: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J., quashed the criminal proceeding registered under Sections 420, 406, 34, 120-B of the Penal Code

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court emphasizes on the importance of husband’s/father’s obligation towards estranged wife/child; Upholds maintenance decree granted by Family Court

The malafide intentions of an estranged husband is to depress his income as much as possible, for sadistic pleasure, of seeing the agony of someone, who has no choice, but to be dependent on him, may be dictated by egoistic propensity to also possibly teach his wife a lesson for not falling in line with whatever be his dictates.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Formation of reasons to believe for search & seizure under Income Tax Act is an administrative function, to be tested by judicial restraint: SC

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of Hemant Gupta* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ., held that non-supply of satisfaction note to the assessee will

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court allows termination of 27+weeks pregnancy of minor child victim of 13 years; Foetus to be preserved for criminal case under POCSO

Madras High Court: Abdul Quddhose, J. permitted the termination of pregnancy of 27+ week of a minor child victim of offence under

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Lack of enthusiasm of ACB, ADGP not relevant for deciding bail application of accused; SC stays Karnataka HC order against ADGP Seemant Kumar Singh

Supreme Court: In a bail application, after the single judge Bench of Karnataka High Court criticised the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and the

Case Briefs High Courts

Whether writ petition on cancellation of GST Registration affecting the Right to Livelihood is maintainable? Uttaranchal High Court answers

Uttaranchal High Court: The division bench of Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, acting C.J., Ramesh Chandra Khulbe, J., held in the writ petition is

Case Briefs High Courts

Allahabad High Court | No protective gears provided to the sanitation workers; DM and Nagar Ayukt, summoned [Manual Scavenging]

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Rajesh Bindal, CJ. and J.J. Munir, J. had taken note of a news item published

Case Briefs High Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court | Substitution of an appointment on compassionate grounds through contractual appointment held illegal; directions issued

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Ravi Malimath, CJ. and Vishal Mishra, J. allowed a writ petition directing

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLT| Sahara Hospitality to go through Corporate Insolvency Process

National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai: The Bench of P.N. Deshmukh, J., Judicial Member, and Shyam Babu Gautam, Technical Member admitted

Case Briefs High Courts

‘Parole a part of reformative process’; Punjab and Haryana High Court grants parole to murder convict

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Division Bench of G.S. Sandhawalia, J., and Vikas Puri, J., allowed this criminal writ petition

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras High Court| Proper reasons to be given for rejecting GST Registration Applications; Just writing ‘rejected’ would not suffice

Madras High Court: Anita Sumanth, J. set aside the impugned order which rejected a registration application filed under Section 22

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court to hear Mohd Zubair’s plea challenging multiple FIRs on July 20; “No precipitate steps” against him till then

Supreme Court: When the matter relating to multiple FIRs being registered against Alt-New co-founder and fact checker Mohammed Zubair was urgently mentioned

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court directs Telegram and Mega to immediately take down any illegal content uploaded on their platform relating to DocTutorials

Delhi High Court: Pratibha M Singh, J. directed Telegram and Mega that whenever unauthorized and illegal content, relating to the copyrighted data

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

ITAT| Can incorrect entries; hybrid system of account lead to rejection of books of Accounts & Labor Charges?

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai: Dealing with the issue pertaining to rejection of books of accounts, sustainability of disallowance of

Case Briefs High Courts

Able bodied person having the ability to earn is not entitled to seek permanent alimony from wife; Karnataka High Court dismisses appeal

Karnataka High Court: The Division Bench of Alok Aradhe and J.M. Khazi, JJ. dismissed an appeal filed by a husband

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Indian Dhows sinking & hijacking by Somali Pirates| Delay in repudiating insurance claim cannot be the only factor to presume deficiency in service: SC

Supreme Court: In an interesting case regarding insurance claim, the Division Bench comprising Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian*, JJ., reversed the NCDRC’s

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AAAR| Free IPL tickets: Supply of Complimentary tickets is promotion of business; attracts GST

Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling, Punjab: Arun Narayan Gupta Chief Commissioner, CGST Commissionerate, and Kamal Kishor Yadav, Commissioner of State