Goods and Services Tax : Supreme Court upheld Section 69 GST arrest powers, requiring recorded reasons, CrPC safeguards, CBIC instructions and limiting arr...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court held excise duty paid by buyers formed part of turnover, discussed colourable devices, and distinguished legitim...
Corporate Law : A non-speaking dismissal of an SLP does not affirm the High Court's reasoning or constitute law under Article 141. The doctrine of...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that summoning hotel booking records and call detail records to prove adultery does not violate privacy, a...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court agreed to examine allegations that bank dues were settled at steep discounts through ARCs, while clarifying that...
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...
Corporate Law : SC held a Ministers statement binds the Government only if it reflects the Governments view and declined to issue speech guideline...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court granted bail under the PMLA, noting prolonged custody, documentary evidence, delayed trial, parity with co-accused, ...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court set aside the High Court's PMLA bail order for failure to apply Section 45 twin conditions and remanded the matter f...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court declined to refer the Article 370 challenge to a larger Bench, holding there was no conflict between earlier Constit...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court upheld termination of a slum redevelopment developer for prolonged delay and reaffirmed the statutory duty and accou...
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...
Ganga Foundations Pvt. Ltd. Vs The State Bank of India (Supreme Court of India) The petitioner had availed loan from the State Bank of India. Since, there was default in repayment of the loan, the petitioner entered into a One Time Settlement under the OTS Scheme with the bank in November, 2020. The petitioner, out […]
Abhay Jain Vs High Court Of Judicature For Rajasthan And Anr (Supreme Court) SC held that the appellant may have been guilty of negligence in the sense that he did not carefully go through the case file and did not take notice of the order of the High Court which was on his file. This […]
Shobha & Ors. Vs Chairman, Vithalrao Shinde, Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. & Ors. (Supreme Court) As per Section 4A of Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923 compensation under Section 4 shall be paid as soon as it falls due. It can be seen that the liability to pay the interest on the amount of compensation due and payable would […]
In the instant case, MSME Council had passed an impugned order directing the appellant to make payment to the respondent without giving sufficient opportunity to the appellant to participate in the arbitration proceeding. If the appellant had not submitted its reply at the conciliation stage, or failed to appear, Council could, at best, have recorded failure of conciliation and proceeded to initiate arbitration proceedings to adjudicate the dispute and make an award.
Union Bank of India Vs Additional Commissioner of Income Tax (TDS) (Supreme Court of India) Whether the appellant was required by the provisions of Section 194A of the Income Tax Act 1961 to deduct tax at source on payments of interest made to the Agra Development Authority. The issue which is raised in the present […]
Chandra Sekhar Jha Vs Union of India & Anr (Supreme Court of India) The first proviso of Section 129E of the present Section enacts a limitation on the total amount which can be demanded by way of pre-deposit. The first proviso provides that the amount required to be deposited should not exceed Rs.10 Crores. In […]
Bank of Baroda Vs Karwa Trading Company (Supreme Court of India) SC held that Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act was not justified in directing to release the mortgaged property and handover the possession along with the original title deeds to the borrower on payment of Rs.48.65 lakhs only which was the base price/ reserve […]
Commissioner of Service Tax Vs Inox Leisure Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) Supreme Court upheld the order of CESTAT and held that Service Tax is not payable by Appellant on Screening films in their multiplex on Revenue Sharing basis. Earlier CESTAT held that the appellant is not liable to pay Service Tax for Screening of […]
A customer for security of his /her valuables approaches the banks and ask for safe deposit lockers. It is duty of the banks same as bailee to provide security and safety to the valuables kept in safety lockers of their customers.
T. Takano Vs Securities and Exchange Board of India (Supreme Court of India) The principal issue was whether an investigation report under Regulation 9 of the PFUTP Regulations must be disclosed to the person to whom a notice to show cause was issued. It was held that assessee had a right to disclosure of the material […]
