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...
Kirti & Anr. Etc. Vs Oriental Insurance Company Ltd (Supreme Court of India) Appeal Number : Civil Appeal No.19-20 of 2021 Date of Judgement/Order : 05/01/2021 HELD THAT : In the recent case passed by the three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on 5 January 2021, the court granted future prospects even in cases of […]
Punjab National Bank Vs Union of India & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) Evidently, prior to insertion of Section 11E in the Central Excise Act, 1944 w.e.f. 08.04.2011, there was no provision in the Act of 1944 inter alia, providing for First Charge on the property of the Assessee or any person under the Act […]
It could thus be seen, that when a person avails a service for a commercial purpose, to come within the meaning of ‘consumer’ as defined in the said Act, he will have to establish that the services were availed exclusively for the purposes of earning his livelihood by means of self-employment. There cannot be any straitjacket formula and such a question will have to be decided in the facts of each case, depending upon the evidence placed on record.
Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. Vs State of U.P. (Supreme Court) As per Section 2(h) of the Act,1997 read with Section 2(30) of the Act, 1988, even a person in possession of the vehicle under the hire-purchase agreement or an agreement of sell or an agreement of hypothecation can also be said to be […]
Supreme Court disallows tax benefits to pharmaceutical company gifting freebies to doctors. Impact on public policy and professional conduct discussed. Full judgment
Babulal Vardharji Gurjar Vs Veer Gurjar Aluminium Industries Pvt. Ltd. & anr. (Supreme Court), Appeal Number : Civil Appeal No. 6347 of 2019, Date of Judgement/Order : 14/08/2020 Limitation Period Is 3 Years Even If Default Fall Before Enactment Of IBC,2016 The Apex Court held that :- Limitation period for initiation of CIRP is 3 […]
Maharasthra Seamless Ltd. vs. Padmanabhan Venkatesh (Supreme Court) Supreme Court Rule That The liquidation value of assets can be higher than the bid under the corporate insolvency resolution process. The Supreme Court in a significant judgment concerning provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 made it clear that it is not necessary that […]
Claim cannot be denied to the seller of the vehicle on the fact that the vehicle is sold to another person unless the sale is complete and ownership of the vehicle is transferred to buyer.
Prakash Corporates Vs Dee Vee Projects Limited (Supreme Court of India) Leave granted. 2. By way of this appeal, the appellant has challenged the order dated 09.07.2021, as passed by the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur in WP No. 312 of 2021, whereby the High Court has upheld the order dated 22.06.2021, as passed […]
United Bank of India Vs. Bachan Prasad Lall (Supreme Court) The nature of allegation against the respondent employee was of fraudulently preparing nine credit transfer vouchers on various dates on the pretext of payment of interest towards fixed deposits and crediting the whole amount to one saving account opened in the name of one Smt. […]
