Himani Walia Vs Hemant Walia & Ors (Delhi High Court) Delhi High Court held that family settlements are not required to be compulsorily registered, and stamp duty is not required to be compulsorily paid in respect of the same, when the settlement has been arrived at initially as an oral partition and is thereafter put […]
Shakti Cotton Pvt. Ltd. Vs Commercial Tax Officer (Gujarat High Court) Proceedings under Section 44 of the GVAT Act are in the nature of garnishee proceedings, i.e. attachment of a debt by means of which judgment-creditor is enabled to reach the money due from the judgment-debtor, which is in the hands of a third person. […]
N. Srinath Reddy Vs State of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh High Court) The petitioner had been granted a quarry lease for Black Granite, for a period of 20 years. The said lease had been determined by an order dated 31.07.2018. Aggrieved by the said order, a Revision was filed under Rule 35-A of the A.P.Minior […]
Commissioner of Customs Vs CRI Limited (Calcutta High Court) First, we take up for consideration the preliminary objection raised by Mr. Ghosh with regard to the maintainability of the appeal before this Court. The facts are not in dispute, namely, that the benefit of the notification no.45 of 2005 has been denied. In such circumstances, […]
Emami Agrotech Limited Vs Union of India & ors. (Calcutta High Court) HC held that appellant has pleaded a genuine difficulty that its consultant being tested positive for Covid-19 and unable to appear. Such request has to be accommodated unless it is shown to be absolutely false. Mr. Banerjee, learned senior standing counsel for the […]
Symphony Limited Vs ADIT/ACIT/DCIT (Gujarat High Court) It is by now well settled that the issuance of a show cause notice along with the draft assessment order is sine qua non before passing an order under Section 144B of the Act. Undisputedly, in the case on hand, no show cause notice came to be issued along […]
L and T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd Vs Union of India (Gujarat High Court) Gujarat High Court has held that- [a] The Revenue is not correct in its stance that in the case on hand, the pre-show cause notice consultation was not necessary as the impugned show cause notice is for preventive / related to an […]
Asutosh Amrit Patnaik Vs State of Orissa (Orissa High Court) As per notification No. GSR 570(E) dated 25.8.1993 issued by the competent authority to consider the pendency of criminal case in the granting of renewal of the passport in certain circumstance more particularly issuing a set of guidelines which read as follows: “(a) the passport to […]
Exide Industries Limited Vs The State of Jharkhand (Jharkhand High Court) The present dispute pertains to the period 2012 -2013. The Petitioner during the said period, had made local purchases of scrap batteries worth Rs. 6,12,45,703/- on which it had claimed Input Tax Credit (ITC) of Rs. 30,62,285. However, in the assessment order ; the […]
Shweta Kedia Vs ITO (Rajasthan High Court) Issues: Whether after introduction of new provisions for reassessment of income by virtue of the Finance Act, 2021 with effect from 01.04.2021, substituting the then existing provisions, would the substituted provisions survive and could be used for issuing notices for reassessment for the past years and Whether the […]
