Case Briefs Archives

Madras HC | If wife issues a cheque to discharge husband’s liability and it gets dishonoured, can the wife be prosecuted under S. 138 NI Act? HC answers

Madras High Court: P.N. Prakash, J., decided a criminal original petition addressing an issue with regard to an offence under Section 138

Case Briefs High Courts

P&H HC | “It’s a matter of recruitment policy”; HC denies adjudicating question of equivalence of qualifications, directs State to determine

Punjab and Haryana High Court: In an interesting case Anil Kshetarpal, J., addressed the question of equivalence of qualifications for the purpose

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT | “Deceased was on advance annual leave when he met with accident” Tribunal denied special family pension to widow of ex-servicemen

Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT): The Division Bench of Justice Umesh Chandra Srivastava (Chairperson) and Vice Admiral Abhay Raghunath Karve (Member) A, heard

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Bank manager disburses loans without following the due procedure. Is compulsory retirement in such case a disproportionate punishment? Read what SC says

“If an officer/employee of the bank is allowed to act beyond his authority, the discipline of the bank will disappear.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

“Reduce Qualifying cut off percentile by 10% for NEET candidates”, SC directs Center; Asks private Dental Colleges to consider reducing exorbitantly high fees

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of L. Nageswara Rao* and Krishna Murari, JJ., addressed the plight of NEET students. The Bench

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NGT | Control of pollution in marriage halls, banquet halls, party venues: Tribunal directs for compliance of CPCB guidelines in view of Water Act, Air Act and Environment Protection Act

National Green Tribunal (NGT): Full Bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (Chairperson) and Justice Sheo Kumar Singh (Judicial Member) and Dr Nagin

Case Briefs High Courts

All HC | Man, principal accused in incident relating to wife’s death, seeking custody of minor children. Can the custody with maternal grandparents said to be illegal? Read on

Allahabad High Court: Dr Yogendra Kumar Srivastava, J., addressed a petition wherein petitioner is an accused of the offences lodged under Sections

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | On invocation of arbitration clause, if a party appoints arbitrator on its own and does not receive confirmation from another party, should former approach Court under S. 11 of Arbitration Act? HC discusses

Delhi High Court: Kameswar Rao, J., decided a petition wherein on the invocation of the arbitration clause, one of the parties appointed

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Classic case of unfair labour practice: Workmen not given permanency on being engaged in a rotational pattern || Pool of Temporaries, Termination, Perennial Work & more

Bombay High Court: S.C. Gupte, J., addressed a group of petitions that challenged four sets of identical awards passed by Labour Courts

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCDRC | If an employee of a stockbroker conducted fraudulent arbitrage operations for personal benefit causing loss to stockbroker company, would that be covered under ‘Fidelity’ clause of an insurance claim? Read on

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): The Division Bench of Justice R.K. Agrawal (President) and Dr S.M. Kantikar (Member) while partly allowing

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SAT | Selling only one share per transactions despite having adequate holding creates false misleading appearance of trading in the securities market and is violative of Regulation 3 and 4 of PFUTP Regulations

Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT): Justice Tarun Agarwala, Presiding Officer, Dr C.K.G. Nair Member and Justice M.T. Joshi, Judicial Member affirmed the impugned

Case Briefs International Courts

13 years later, ECHR holds Russia responsible for human rights violations in the “August War” of 2008 with Georgia || Detailed Report

European Court of Human Rights (Grand Chamber): In its judgment delivered on 21st January, the Grand Chamber of ECHR, after detailed deliberation

Case Briefs Supreme Court

As Supreme Court allows Rajasthan Schools to collect fees for the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, read what’s in it for the students and parents

Supreme Court: In a major win for Private Schools in the State of Rajasthan, the bench of AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari,

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Farmer Protests| Shashi Tharoor and 6 journalists not to be arrested for now over tweets on protester’s death during Republic Day Tractor Rally

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJI and AS Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has stayed the arrest of congress

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Bar under Section 10A IBC on initiation of CIRP applies retrospectively; ‘March 25, 2020’ consciously added as it coincides with the imposition of National Lockdown: SC

“The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic is a cataclysmic event which has serious repercussions on the financial health of corporate enterprises.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Chh HC | Power under S. 156(3) of the CrPC warrants application of judicial mind and it has to be supported by an affidavit

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K Agrawal J., quashed the impugned order and allowed the petition. The present petition was directed against the

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras HC | Zero tolerance for Advocates’ unlawful conduct: HC to ensure that activities of some advocates do not spoil image of entire profession

Madras High Court: N. Anand Venkatesh, J., while addressing the present petition expressed that: “This is the third occasion, in the last

Case Briefs High Courts

Pat HC | Authorities cannot be allowed to indefinitely debar a person from doing business contingent to happening of a certain future event

Patna High Court: Rajendra Kumar Mishra, J., heard the instant petition challenging the order of Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), by which the

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CESTAT | Condition of bank guarantee found exorbitant; Tribunal allows appeal reducing amount of the bank guarantee

Customs, Excise and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT): The Coram of Ramesh Nair (Judicial Member) and Raju (Technical Member) allowed an appeal

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Del HC | To avail exemption under S. 8 RTI Act, public authority must give detailed reasons as to how such disclosure would affect the pending investigation; Court remands the matter back to CIC

Delhi High Court: In a petition seeking direction to quash the order of Central Information Commission, Jayant Nath, J. observed, “…where a