Goods and Services Tax : The Finance Act, 2025 retrospectively amended Section 17(5)(d) of the CGST Act after the Supreme Court allowed ITC on certain comm...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that liabilities arising from corporate guarantees qualify as financial debt under Section 5(8) of the Inso...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that a shortfall payment clause in a Deed of Hypothecation can qualify as a contract of guarantee under th...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court expressed serious reservations about earlier rulings denying bail in UAPA cases, holding that smaller benches ca...
Income Tax : The article explains the Supreme Court’s landmark 2024 ruling that broken period interest on debt securities is capital in natur...
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...
Corporate Law : SC clarifies limits of High Court's writ powers in IBC cases and recognises Indian CIRP as foreign main proceeding in cross-border...
Corporate Law : Justice BR Gavai sworn in as India's 52nd Chief Justice. Focus areas include addressing case pendency and improving court infrastr...
Corporate Law : Key IBC case law updates from Oct-Dec 2024, covering Supreme Court and High Court decisions on CoC powers, resolution plans, relat...
Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court stayed further proceedings arising from a Section 74 GST order while examining whether writ petitions can be ent...
Finance : The Supreme Court refused relief to borrowers who defaulted from the very first instalment after availing an ₹8.09 crore loan. T...
Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...
Income Tax : SC examined nature of amounts received from an AOP and upheld findings that receipts constituted profit share rather than revenue ...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court dismissed the challenge to a Delhi High Court ruling that quashed reassessment proceedings under Sections 148A(d...
Corporate Law : The Bill seeks to amend Articles 15 and 16 to allow reservation for backward classes proportionate to their population identified ...
Fema / RBI : RBI directs banks, NBFCs, and other entities to implement Supreme Court’s accessibility guidelines for digital KYC, ensuring inc...
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 : No restrictions on joint bank accounts or nominations for the queer community, as clarified by the Supreme Court and RBI in August...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India introduces new procedures for case adjournments effective 14th February 2024, detailing strict guidelines a...
The allegation of wilful disobedience being in the nature of criminal liability, the same has to be proved to the satisfaction of the court that the disobedience was not mere ‘disobedience’ but ‘wilful’ and ‘conscious’.
Even assuming for a moment that the petitioners produced fake and fabricated documents, that has not caused any wrongful loss to the Government. Hence, this Court is of the view that a registration of crime and conducting investigation are abuse of process of law and, hence, the proceedings in the crime are liable to be quashed.
SC is of the view that appellant cannot be indefinitely detained in custody more so having already spent almost 50% of possible maximum sentence in alleged GST Evasion case of Rs. 64Cr.
The only requirement of law, for such process of decision making by the tender inviting authority, is that it should not be suffering from illegality, irrationality, mala fide, perversity, or procedural impropriety. No such case being made out, the decision of the tender inviting authority (NVS) in the present case was not required to be interfered with on the reasoning that according to the writ Court, the product ‘Smart Phone’ ought to be taken as being of similar category as the product ‘Tablet’.
Supreme Court held that an arbitrator allowing an application to modify an original award in exercise of powers under section 33 of Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, was not sustainable if there was no arithmetical and/or clerical error in the award.
State of Madhya Pradesh Vs R.D. Sharma (Supreme Court of India) It may be noted that Supreme court has consistently held that the equation of post and determination of pay scales is the primary function of the executive and not the judiciary and therefore ordinarily courts will not enter upon the task of job evaluation […]
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Private Ltd. Vs Union of India (Supreme Court of India) Learned ASG has pointed out that insofar as our direction (v) of our order dated 16.11 2021 we had dealt with the aspect of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) in Motor Accident Claims at two different rates from 10% to […]
Competition Commission of India Vs State of Mizoram (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court has ruled that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) cannot be prevented from investigating anti-competition Element in the tendering process of lotteries on grounds of lottery business outside the ambit of commercial intercourse. We must take note of the expansive […]
Jayahari Vs State of Kerala (Supreme Court of India) he facts thus show that a transaction was entered into between the complainant and the appellants, in terms of which the property belonging to the appellants was sought to be purchased by the complainant; and in order to enable him to effectuate such purchase, certain loan […]
Bank of Baroda & Anr. Vs MBL Infrastructures Limited & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) Facts- Corporate insolvency resolution process was initiated against respondent No. 1. Two resolution plans were received by the resolution professional (respondent no. 2). Committee of creditors decided seeking an appropriate resolution plan at the hands of respondent no. 3. Section […]
