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Delhi HC Slams POCSO Misuse, Young Boys Facing Injustice & Languishing in Jails

Corporate Law : Delhi High Court recent judgment highlights the alarming misuse of the POCSO Act, where cases are filed due to family objections t...

August 16, 2024 180 Views 0 comment Print

J&K&L HC Quashes Money Laundering Case Against Farooq Abdullah

Corporate Law : J&K&L High Court quashes money laundering case against Farooq Abdullah, citing absence of a scheduled offence under the Prevention...

August 16, 2024 126 Views 0 comment Print

Jharkhand HC Orders State to Use Special Branch to Identify Illegal Immigrants in Six Districts

Corporate Law : Jharkhand HC directs the state to use its Special Branch to identify illegal immigrants allegedly from Bangladesh in six districts...

August 14, 2024 138 Views 0 comment Print

AFT Can Examine Legality of ‘Displeasure Award’ by Army Authorities: P&H HC

Corporate Law : Punjab & Haryana HC confirms that the Armed Forces Tribunal has jurisdiction to review the legality of a ‘displeasure award’ g...

August 13, 2024 87 Views 0 comment Print

Relatives Can’t Be Charged Under IPC 498A for Asking Wife to Tolerate Husband’s Cruelty: Bombay HC

Corporate Law : Bombay HC rules that relatives of a husband cannot be charged under Section 498A IPC solely for advising a wife to tolerate cruelt...

August 13, 2024 519 Views 0 comment Print


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Latest Case Law Related to IBC – April to June 2023

Corporate Law : SC rules on Special Court jurisdiction; NCLAT redefines financial debt; HC upholds IBBI regulations and addresses various insolven...

August 14, 2024 321 Views 0 comment Print

GST payable on interest component of EMI of Credit Card loan: Calcutta HC

Goods and Services Tax : HIGH COURT OF CALCUTTA: Ramesh Kumar Patodia v. Citi Bank [WPO NO. 547 OF 2019 JUNE 24, 2022 ] Facts: ♦ Petitioner is a holder ...

August 10, 2022 2898 Views 0 comment Print

Gurugugram CA arrest by GST Dept. – Submission by Dept. in Court

Goods and Services Tax : CGST, Gurugram (Anti Evasion) Vs Gaurav Dhir (Chief Judicial Magistrate, District Courts, Gurugram) U/s 132(1)) r/w 132(1)(b)(C)(e...

May 25, 2022 90156 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Issues Practice Directions to Dispense with Physical Signatures on Daily Court Orders

Corporate Law : In order to dispense with the physical signatures on the daily orders (which are not important/final orders and judgments) of the ...

April 29, 2022 825 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC admits petition questioning provision overruling SC Judgment in Canon India case

Custom Duty : Delhi High Court admits petition questioning Validity of provisions in Finance Act 2022 which overruled landmark Judgment of Supr...

April 8, 2022 4434 Views 0 comment Print


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Avoidance application timelines under Regulation 35A is not mandatory: Delhi HC

Company Law : Delhi High Court held that timelines under Regulation 35A of the CIRP Regulations, 2016 for filing avoidance application are direc...

August 17, 2024 27 Views 0 comment Print

Settlement consideration to be treated as taxable under the head ‘capital gains’: Delhi HC

Income Tax : Delhi HC held that the settlement consideration as received was liable to be recognized as capital gains and the same couldn’t p...

August 17, 2024 105 Views 0 comment Print

Passing of order u/s. 148A(d) on the basis of fresh ground untenable: Delhi HC

Income Tax : Delhi High Court held that passing of order by the revenue under section 148A(d) of the Income Tax Act on the basis of fresh groun...

August 17, 2024 195 Views 0 comment Print

Notice u/s. 148 to NRI without following mandatory faceless procedure unsustainable: Telangana HC

Income Tax : Telangana High Court held that notice issued u/s. 148 of the Income Tax Act must comply with the requirement of the Scheme whether...

August 17, 2024 447 Views 0 comment Print

Bogus purchase addition cannot be based on superficial inquiry: Bombay HC

Income Tax : Bombay High Court held that half-hearted approach on the part of AO to make additions on the issue of bogus purchase would not be ...

August 17, 2024 1074 Views 0 comment Print


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New Video Conferencing Protocols Issued by Delhi High Court

Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court mandates new video conferencing protocols to enhance transparency and accessibility in court proceedings. Rea...

May 20, 2024 1059 Views 0 comment Print

Instructions for AO after Adverse observations of Allahabad HC

Income Tax : Income Tax Department Issues Instructions for Assessing Officers after Adverse Observations of Hon. Allahabad High Court in in Civ...

August 7, 2022 12042 Views 2 comments Print

Delhi HC exempts lawyers from wearing gowns

Corporate Law : Delhi High Court has exempted the Lawyers from wearing Gowns practicing in the High Court with effect from March 2, 2022 till furt...

February 25, 2022 3078 Views 0 comment Print

Delhi HC Permits Service of Notice & Summons via Whatsapp/Email/Fax Amid Covid 19

Corporate Law : Till further orders, all documents/ not summons/Daks through physical mode be dispensed with, except where there, is a specific or...

April 16, 2021 5040 Views 0 comment Print

Bombay HC to Resume Physical Hearings of Tax Matters from 01.12.2020

Income Tax : Hon’ble Judges to hear the matters physically at the Principal Seat at Bombay, on experimental basis with effect from 1st Decemb...

November 27, 2020 762 Views 0 comment Print


Unless a sense of hierarchical discipline is observed, while implementing fiscal legislation, exercise of powers would be rendered arbitrary and subject to whim and caprice of Assessing Officers

January 16, 2011 288 Views 0 comment Print

In a case where the Assessing Officer has chosen to act in complete departure from a duly considered determination made by a superior officer, it is necessary for this Court to step in to ensure that the discipline of the hierarchy imposed by fiscal legislation is duly observed

Award by arbitrator is within ambit of transmission by operation of law

January 16, 2011 489 Views 0 comment Print

The entitlement to shares pursuant to an award made under the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, is in consequence of lawful means other than by a transfer in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company.

An unregistered private trust cannot open a Demat account in its name and in the name of Gods or Goddesses

January 16, 2011 7023 Views 0 comment Print

Demat account is essential a commercial activity done on a day to day basis and it is not expected that a private trust would bring the Gods and Goddesses in the matter of share trading business. In our view, the Respondent No. 2 has rightly rejected the prayer of the Petitioner holding that such account cannot be operated in view of the circular of the SEBI which is annexed at page 23 annexure “C”.

In order to attract provisions of section 41(1)(a), there must be a remission or cessation of the trading liability and consequently a benefit must enure to assessee

January 16, 2011 609 Views 0 comment Print

The Petitioner has an industrial unit in the district of Raigad which is a notified backward area. The Government of Maharashtra issued a package scheme of incentives in 1993 by which a scheme for the deferral of sales tax dues was announced. The Petitioner had during the period 1 May 1999 and 31 March 2000 collected an amount of Rs.1,79,68,846/ towards sales tax. Under the scheme the amount was payable in five annual installments commencing from April 2

Conditions prescribed in clauses (a),(b) and (c) of sub-section 7 of section 94 are intended to be cumulative in nature

January 16, 2011 1709 Views 0 comment Print

The Memorandum explaining the provisions of the Finance Bill of 2001 by which sub-section (7) of section 94 was inserted, would make it clear that the requirements that are spelt out in clauses (a),(b) and (c) were intended to be cumulative.

In the absence of failure of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary during his assessment under sub-section (3) of section 143 no action can be taken after the expiry of four years

January 16, 2011 363 Views 0 comment Print

Where an assessment has been made under sub-section (3) of section 143 for the relevant assessment year, no action can be taken after the expiry of four years from the end of the relevant assessment year unless inter alia there has been a failure of the assessee to disclose fully and truly all material facts necessary for his assessment for that assessment year.

When Banks claim deduction of bad debt written off in previous year by virtue of proviso to section 36(1)(vii), they are entitled to claim deduction of such bad debt only to extent it exceeds provision created and allowed as deduction under clause (viia)

January 16, 2011 426 Views 0 comment Print

Though the issue raised in these connected appeals filed by the Revenue stands decided in favour of the assessees by Division Bench judgment of this court in SOUTH INDIAN BANK LTD. V. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME-TAX reported in 262 ITR 579, the department while arguing these appeals before a Division Bench of this court canvassed against the correctness of the said judgment and the Division Bench on being prima facie satisfied, referred the matter for decision by Full Bench and hence the matter is before us.

For purposes of clause (iv) of Explanation 1 to section 115JB, extent of reduction in respect of deduction available under section 80HHC has to be computed strictly in accordance with provisions of section 80HHC

January 16, 2011 657 Views 0 comment Print

Tribunal was not justified in coming to the conclusion that the amount to be reduced under clause (iv) of Explanation 1 to Section 115JB in respect of the profits eligible for deduction under Section 80HHC has to be computed with reference to the net profits in the profit and loss account and not according to the profits of the business computed under the head of profits and gains of business or profession

Activity of preparing bouquets from natural flowers does not bring into existence commercially a different product and hence is not `manufacture’ for purpose of section 2(17) of Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959

January 16, 2011 4411 Views 0 comment Print

If the `flower bouquet’ is an arrangement of cut flowers, such arrangement of cut flowers by itself would not convert the said flowers into a different commercial commodity nor will it amount to and activity which would have an impact on the nature of the goods and will therefore not fall within the definition of the word “manufacture”

Penalty U/s. 271E not valid in absence of finding in order of AO with regard to applicability of section 269T

January 14, 2011 1389 Views 0 comment Print

Where in case of assessee there was only processing of return under section 143(1)(a) and, there was no finding in order of AO with regard to applicability of section 269T to assessee’s case, no penalty under section 271E was permissible.

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