girl student burned by the cook for asking for food
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The NHRC has issued notices to the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police seeking a detailed report within 2 weeks.

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Service tax on assignment under copyright service
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The Adjudication Authority stated that the appellant’s activity of receiving income from transferring temporarily or permitting the use of the right vested in the film produced by them to their clients fell under the definition of copyright service under Section 65(105)(zzzt) of the Finance Act, 1994.

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LPS terms under PPA remain binding on parties dehors subsequent tariff regulations: APTEL
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“Any regulations issued by an Electricity Commission in exercise of its delegated legislative power, are applicable to the PPA executed after the date when those regulations come into force and cannot be applied to the PPAs already executed prior to that date, unless the regulations expressly specify so.”

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“If the Unpublished Price Sensitive Information had not been disclosed on the day the prices moved up phenomenally, the Noticee would have undoubtedly lost the premium it paid for the purchase of call options in the scrips of HDFC Ltd. and HDFC Bank Ltd.”

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customs commissioner cannot re-determine FOB value
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“The customs officer can reject the transaction value as the assessable value and re-determine it as per the Valuation Rules for the purpose of imposing duty, but this would not change the transaction value for the purpose of receiving foreign remittance.”

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School collapse
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The NHRC has issued notices to the Rajasthan Chief Secretary and Jhalawar Superintendent of Police, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

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Congress party's tax exemption appeal
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The ITAT reiterated that so far as an interpretation of such an exemption provision in a fiscal statute was concerned, a stricter interpretation had to be employed rather than a liberal one.

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compensation DB Power over changes in law
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The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity had remanded matter to Central Electricity Regulatory Commission to reconsider issues pertaining to station heat rate, carrying cost, and increase in VAT, Entry Tax, etc. due to change in law, force majeure events affecting petitioner’s project.

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Videocon loan case
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As per the Rules, Chanda Kochhar should have distanced from the meetings which were held for loan sanction, because of conflict of interest. However, not only did she participate in the meeting, but she also sanctioned the loan under urgent category.

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NCLT's inherent power
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In the present case, initiation of the voluntary liquidation was a voluntary commercial decision taken by the shareholders. It is open to the shareholders, where no prejudice is caused to any stakeholder, to reconsider and reverse their decision, particularly when the process has not proceeded to an irreversible stage, such as distribution of assets.

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loose sheets as complete evidence
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Even if the figures in the document are hypothetically taken to be correct figures, still the same must be proved with corroborative evidence otherwise the document becomes irrelevant.

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Custodial torture suicide
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The NHRC has issued notice to the Delhi Police Commissioner, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

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malnutrition in children Telangana
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The NHRC addressing an intimation letter to the Chief Secretary, Government of Telangana, further sought an Action Taken Report in the matter.

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service tax on upfront fee
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“At the time of executing the Concession Agreements with developers, DMRC had collected “upfront fee” as a price for obtaining the respective Concession Agreements.”

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Lack of Government Schools in Telangana Villages
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The NHRC also sought an Action Taken Report from the State on the complaint within one week.

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Counter vailing duty on machines for areca nuts
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“Adjudicating authority has travelled beyond the classification proposed in the show-cause notice by classifying the product under a classification which was neither claimed by the appellant nor was proposed in the said notice.”

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gang rape in stationary train
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The NHRC issued notices to the Chairman, Railway Board, and DGP Haryana, seeking a detailed report about the incident within two weeks, including health status and compensation.

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Karvy Consultant 2005 IPO Scam
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“A professional group like Karvy cannot abdicate its responsibility to ensure genuine transactions. The failure to exercise due diligence with respect to the work facilitated the key operators to earn huge profits out of the mala fide allotment of shares of the two entities i.e., Yes Bank Ltd. and IDFC in their IPO subscription.”

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Cressanda disclosure violation penalty
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“The circumstances under which the promoter and promoter’s group reduced their holding in Cressanda give enough indications as to the fact that the investors, if they had known at the relevant time that the promoter and promoter group is drastically reducing its holding, may have been cautious while purchasing the shares of Cressanda.”

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service tax for film screening
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For getting the films exhibited in their theatre, the owner of the said Multiplexes/theatres enter into agreements with the film distributors/producers. The purpose of the agreement and the intention of the parties is for screening of the film in the theatre, which cannot be treated as “Renting of Immovable Property Service”.

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