The high-profile Rs 7,000- crore Satyam fraud case is likely to be transferred to a special sessions court to expedite trial,according to a senior police officer. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is probing into the fraud after the software firm’s disgraced founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to fudging the books, will shortly recommend the […]
44. We have carefully considered the rival submissions in the light of material placed before us. The assessments in the present case have been made u/s 153A of the Act. Section 13A provides that in case a person against whom search is initiated u/s 132A of the Act then notwithstanding anything contained in sections 39, 147,148,149 151 and 153 of the Income Tax Act, the AO shall issue a notice to such person
State co-operation minister Harshavardhan Patil on Sunday said that a task force will be set-up to look into the matters of government auditors who are working with the co-operatives commissionerate.
The ICAI’s proposal to restrain foreign firms from joining hands with Indian auditing companies has brought some relief to local chartered accountants. They observe that this proposal will put an end to the monopoly of the big four (Ernst and Young, Pricewaterhouse, KPMG and Deloitte) which has been a matter of concern to them for […]
India’s Supreme Court has given the country’s financial markets regulator permission to question Ramalinga Raju, the founder of Satyam Computer Services (SATY.BO), which is at the centre of the country’s biggest corporate scandal, court officials said on Tuesday. The court said officials from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) could interrogate Raju and […]
In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of section 610C of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby directs that.
Jitendra Kumar Mohala could be suffering from what psychiatrists call a frustration aggression syndrome. Mohala was arrested on Sunday night and sent to jail for 14 days for creating a hijack scare on an Indigo flight, leading to a security crisis at IGI airport. Mohala, a 42-year-old CA from Dwarka and son of a retired […]
Why did Jitendra Kumar Mohala, a 42-year-old chartered accountant and the son of a retired air commodore, go berserk while travelling on IndiGo’s Goa-Delhi flight on Sunday afternoon? Mohala had claimed to be an armed hijacker from a terror outfit and had subjected the flight crew to a torrent of terror talk. While investigators are […]
SSN Moorthy, a 1973 batch IRS officer, was on Saturday appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. He replaces NB Singh. Prior to his new assignment, Moorthy was a member in CBDT from August 2008. The government also appointed Sudhir Chandra, a 1973 batch IRS, in the CBDT as a […]
1.0 It has been decided to amend certain clauses in the Equity Listing Agreement to enhance disclosures regarding shareholding of promoters and promoter group. Accordingly, this circular is issued in exercise of powers conferred by subsection (1) of Section 11 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, to protect the interest of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market. The details of amendment are as under: