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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...
The Bombay High Court has issued a Circular dated April 3, 2017 directing the practitioners not to use prefixes like Mr/Ms/Mrs/M/s in the cause title of legal proceedings.
Sham Interiors Vs Assistant Commercial Tax Officer (Madras High Court) The proviso to Section 24(3) of Puducherry Value Added Tax Act, 2007 specifically requires that the dealer be afforded reasonable opportunity of being heard prior to framing of an assessment. Such reasonable opportunity, Courts have been consistently held, must include an opportunity of personal hearing. […]
BNP Paribas Global Securities Operations Private Ltd. Vs Assistant Commissioner of GST & Central Excise (Madras High Court) The Madras High Court allowed the benefit of Cenvat refund to the taxpayer as the credit of duty was not able to use after the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST). The petitioner, BNP […]
M/s. SRF Limited Vs Customs, Excise and Gold Control Appellate Tribunal (Madras High Court) Conclusion: Refund could be granted only to a person who had paid the duty and not to anyone else and if the ultimate consumer could not be identified, the amount would be retained in the fund. Therefore, the subsequent issuance of […]
Kannan Ramdurai Iyer Vs Commissioner of Customs (Madras High Court) In the present case the impugned intimation is dated 30.09.2020, signed on 29.09.2020 by the officer. The date of seizure is 06.03.2020 and the periods of six months (original period of seizure) expires on 05.09.2020. The intimation of extension should have been brought to the […]
Babulal Verma Vs Enforcement Directorate (Bombay High Court) For initiation/registration of a crime under the PMLA, the only necessity is registration of a Predicate/Scheduled Offence as prescribed in various Paragraphs of the Schedule appended to the Act and nothing more than it. In other words, for initiating or setting the criminal law in motion under […]
The Hon’ble Bombay High Court in Sanjiv Madhusudan Shah v. Assistant Commissioner of Central and Service Tax and ors. [Writ Petition (L) No. 646 of 2021 dated January 12, 2021] has stayed a demand notice issued, seeking to levy service tax upon an Advocate. Facts:- Sanjiv Madhusudan Shah (“the Petitioner”), who is an Advocate by […]
Vodafone Idea Ltd. Vs Commercial Tax Tribunal (Allahabad High Court) The ex-parte nature of the order apart, at present, it does stand out that the Tribunal has taken two divergent views in the case of the assessee itself, inasmuch as, in the earlier order, the Tribunal had clearly opined that the goods that have been […]
Synfonia Tradelinks Pvt Ltd Vs ITO (Delhi High Court) 1. The reasons which lead to the formation of opinion or belief that the assessee’s income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment should be inextricably connected. In other words, the reasons for the formation of opinion should have a rational connection with the formation of the […]
Topcem India Vs Union Of India And 3 Ors (Gauhati High Court) Conclusion: Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education Cess which have already been refunded in terms of earlier decision in‘M/S SRD Nutrients Private Limited’, could not be revoked co-laterally by a Quasi Judicial Authority of the Department without taking recourse to the statutory […]
