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Corporate Law : The Bombay High Court held that merely organising protests or morchas against government decisions cannot justify externment. It r...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court held that an unnatural death in police custody attracts constitutional liability under Article 21, even if ca...
Income Tax : The Calcutta High Court quashed a Section 143(3) assessment after finding that the assessee was denied a meaningful opportunity of...
Corporate Law : Madras HC held morphed obscene images are a serious attack on a woman's privacy and dignity. It directed prompt police action and ...
Corporate Law : The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld the acquittal after finding the relationship was consensual. A later refusal to marry did not e...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court ruled that CoC and RP can surrender financially burdensome assets voluntarily, clarifying moratorium under section 1...
Income Tax : Gujarat HC has directed CBDT to ensure that there is a mandatory one-month gap between date for furnishing tax audit reports (unde...
Income Tax : Rajasthan High Court granted a one-month extension for filing TARs under Section 44AB for AY 2025-26, citing delayed audit utility...
Income Tax : The Gujarat High Court is hearing a petition from the Chartered Accountants Association regarding persistent glitches on the new I...
Income Tax : Karnataka High Court held that reopening a completed scrutiny assessment without fresh tangible material is impermissible as it am...
Income Tax : Karnataka High Court held that Section 14A disallowance must be based on actual expenditure and remanded the matter for fresh comp...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court ruled that expenditure cannot be disallowed under Section 14A unless exempt income is actually earned in the rele...
Corporate Law : Bombay HC held societies only recognize members for administration, not title. Membership cannot be denied over unresolved ownersh...
Corporate Law : Allahabad HC ruled that cyber crime investigations must comply with BNSS requirements, including furnishing the FIR and specifying...
Income Tax : The Court held that membership cannot be granted where the underlying flats do not exist and are merely refuge areas. It ruled tha...
Corporate Law : Bombay High Court implements "Rules for Video Conferencing 2022" for all courts in Maharashtra, Goa, and union territories, effect...
Income Tax : CBDT raises monetary limits for tax appeals: Rs. 60 lakh for ITAT, Rs. 2 crore for High Court, and Rs. 5 crore for Supreme Court, ...
Corporate Law : The Delhi High Court mandates new video conferencing protocols to enhance transparency and accessibility in court proceedings. Rea...
Income Tax : Income Tax Department Issues Instructions for Assessing Officers after Adverse Observations of Hon. Allahabad High Court in in Civ...
Sadruddin Tejani Vs ITO (Bombay High Court) The basic facts set out above are not in dispute. Without getting into the merits of the demands by the Revenue or the Application for Revision under Section 264 of the Income Tax Act by the Petitioner, it would be relevant to note that, it is not in […]
Section 153A only states that an assessment in terms thereof shall be completed in terms of the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961 as if such return were a return required to be furnished under Section 139. It would thus suffice that in framing an assessment under Section 153A, due regard must be given to the principles of natural justice, which requirement will stand satisfied either by issuance of notice under Section 143(2) or a question-naire under Section 142(1). Therefore, a notice under Section 143(2) was not to be mandatorily issued prior to completion of an assessment in consequence of a notice under Section 153C.
Saurabh Sharma Vs Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Delhi High Court) The word ‘public place’, has to be interpreted in this case in the context of the COVID pandemic. To determine what constitutes a `public place’ the manner in which the Coronavirus can spread is the crucial part. It is now settled and accepted universally that the corona […]
Supermax Personal Care Pvt. Ltd. Vs Union of India (Bombay High Court) In the order in original dated 20.11.2019 the adjudicating authority had recorded a clear finding that the only presumption for the demand was that because the maximum retail price of the goods manufactured at Una, Himachal Pradesh and those manufactured elsewhere by the […]
Jayamma Xavier Vs Registrar of Firms (Kerala High Court) Section 4 of the Partnership Act permits Constitution of a firm or partnership between one or more persons. In this case the partnership deed was executed between an individual and an LLP which is a body corporate having a legal entity and coming within the definition […]
Aafreen Fatima Fazal Abbas Sayed Vs ACIT (Bombay High Court) 15. This is a case where, in the Petitioner’s return for the Assessment Year A.Y 2018 – 19, the figure of long term capital gains of Rs. 3,07,60,800/- on surrender of tenancy rights in respect of earlier A.Y 2017-18 had inadvertently been copied by petitioner’s […]
AA520 Veerappampalayam Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Society Limited Vs DCIT (Madras high court) The scope of an ‘intimation’ u/s 143 (1) (a) of the Act, extends only to the making of adjustments based upon errors apparent from the return of income and patent from the record The scope of an ‘intimation’ under Section 143 (1) […]
Sandeep Ahuja Vs Union of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) The Petitioner is a Director in five companies. Due to non-filing of annual returns and balance sheets in one of the companies, the Petitioner was disqualified as a director in 2017 with effect from 1st November, 2017 to 31st October, 2022 under Section 164(2)(a) […]
COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX (CIT) V. Mrs. ANNAMMA ALEXANDER AND Ors. Decided by the High Court of Kerala. CITATION: 1991 191 ITR 551 Ker 13 March, 1991 FACTS OF THE CASE: Mrs. Annamma Alexander is the original assessee in this case who is the legal heir of late Mr. Alexander. After the death of Mrs. […]
Om Trading Company Vs Deputy Commissioner of State Tax and others (Madhya Pradesh High Court) Learned Single Judge came to the conclusion that a detailed enquiry was conducted by the Commercial Department Range Agra and that the fact regarding issuance of invoices/e-way bills without any transportation of physical goods came into picture, therefore, verification in […]
