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Waqf Board cannot override court orders to keep a property on the Section 22-A prohibited list: Andhra Pradesh HC

The Court directed the registration authorities to delete the subject property from the list of prohibited properties under Section 22-A, Registration Act, 1908 and register the property as per the Registration Act and Stamp Act, 1899, holding Waqf Board’s claim on property was contrary to Court orders and they cannot ignore final decree passed by Court.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Statutory Bodies Cannot Undermine Finality of Judicial Orders; Supreme Court Declares Rent Authority’s Restoration Order Void for Exceeding Jurisdiction

“Jurisdiction especially at the level of the trial courts is a creation of specific statutes and the learned judges must be cognizant, always of the differences in the jurisdiction conferred upon them thereby.”

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Experts Corner

Flummoxed by Finality: Supreme Court Reaffirms Applicability of Res Judicata to SEBI

by Namita Shetty* and Bharat Harne**

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Right to Information vis-a-vis Right to Privacy; SC invokes doctrine of ex debito justitiae to hear HDFC’s plea challenging RBI directions mandating disclosure of confidential & sensitive information

“If a man has been wronged, so long as the wrong lies within the human machinery of administration of justice, that wrong must be remedied.”