purpose of auction
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The process of bidding takes place in a situation where large number of people show their willingness to buy a particular product or a service and auction is a process that involves buying and selling goods and services by offering them for bids, taking bids and selling the item to the highest bidder.

sale of capital assets
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court reiterated that to examine whether a particular transaction is sale of capital assets or business expense, multiple factors like frequency of trade and volume of trade, nature of transaction over the years etc., are required to be examined.

justice j.k. maheshwari
Know thy Judge

In August 2021, Justice J.K. Maheshwari became the first Chief Justice from Sikkim High Court to be elevated to the Supreme Court.

referral courts jurisdiction
Case BriefsSupreme Court

In the case at hand, the Delhi High Court had referred the disputes for arbitration without conclusively deciding the issue of the existence and validity of an arbitration agreement and had left it to be decided by the arbitral tribunal.

madras high court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

If the notifications are bad in law and they are liable to be quashed, the subsequent selection procedure that has been undertaken would also suffer from the same vice.

additional-list
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court set aside the Karnataka High Court verdict wherein it was held that the State failed in its obligation to inform the respondent about the existence of the vacancy that has arisen.

circumstantial evidence links in a chain
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court was of the view that the High Court ought to have interfered with the conviction when it found one of the links in circumstantial evidence missing and not proved, respecting the settled law in this regard.

security by surety
Case BriefsSupreme Court

In the case at hand, the Security was a ‘shop’, which was not owned by the surety, but by the Municipal Corporation, Lucknow.

corporate insolvency resolution
Experts CornerLakshmikumaran & Sridharan

by Ankit Parhar† and Rashi Srivastava††
Cite as: 2023 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 55

works contract service
Case BriefsSupreme Court

As the service tax needs to be computed in terms of Rule 2A of the Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006 and as the assessee has not opted for the composition scheme, the matter is remitted back to the CESTAT for re-computation of the demands.

senthil balaji
Case BriefsSupreme Court

S Megala, wife of V. Senthil Balaji, who has been arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement in a money laundering case, filed a habeas corpus petition, wherein the Madras High Court agreed to an urgent hearing, leading to the present SLP by ED before the Supreme Court.

sc st act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The huge and unexplained delay of over 60 years in initiating dispute with regard to the ownership of the land, and the criminal case being lodged only after failure to obtain relief in the civil suits, coupled with denial of relief, reeked of malafide on the part of the complainant.”

section 5 of electricity act
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment, dating back to the year 1950, on Section 5 of the Electricity Act, 1910.

bengal panchayat polls
Hot Off The PressNews

Supreme Court asked the State Election Commission that why it is concerned with the source of the forces, as its primary concern must be free and fair elections

extension of time for investigation
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court also reiterated that the grant of sanction is nowhere contemplated under Section 167 of the CrPC.

partition suit
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court said that allegations of fraud require special pleadings in terms of Order VI, Rule 4 CPC, 1908.

coin without another side
Op EdsOP. ED.

by Shubham Priyadarshi*

theft on train
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court expressed that “We fail to understand as to how the theft could be said to be in any way a deficiency in service by the Railways.”

justice pankaj mithal
Know thy Judge

Sitting Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice Pankaj Mithal is a third- generation lawyer, a second-generation Judge and is also a writer of note.

section 327(7) of companies act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court said that it cannot adopt a doctrinaire approach. Some sacrifices have to be always made for the greater good, and unless such sacrifices are prima facie apparent and ex facie harsh and unequitable as to classify as manifestly arbitrary, these would not be interfered with by the court. Thus, no priority can be given to workers’ dues after liquidation of the company under the IBC.