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...
State of Jharkhand & Ors. Vs Bihar Sponge Iron Ltd. (Supreme Court) Current appeal has been filed against the Order SLP(C)No. 14956 of 2020 dated October 23, 2019 by the Hon’ble Jharkhand HIgh Court (Jharkhand HC) which quashed the Show Cause Notice (SCN) on the grounds of it violating Section 70(5)(b) of Jharkhand Value Added […]
Commissioner of Customs Vs Agarwal Metals And Alloys (Supreme Court) The present appeal has been filed by Commissioner of Customs, Kandla (Appellant) against the Order in Customs Appeal No. 11756 of 2019 dated February 13, 2020 by the Hon’ble CESTAT, Ahmedabad which held that demands confirmed by the Appellant, confiscation of goods and penalties imposed […]
Union of India Vs Manoj Kumar (Supreme Court of India) In this case Para 3.1.3 which dealt with the disparity between the Secretariat and field offices has canvassed a case for parity between similarly placed persons employed in field offices and the Secretariat; in view of the field offices being at the cutting edge of […]
For years a battle of manoeuver has been waged between the Legislature and those who are minded to throw the burden of taxation off their own shoulders on to those of their fellow subjects. In that battle the Legislature has often been worsted by the skill, determination and resourcefulness of its opponents, of whom the […]
Hemraj Ratnakar Salian Vs. HDFC Bank Ltd. & Ors. (Supreme Court) In the present case, first of all there is a serious doubt as to the bona fide of the tenant, as there is no good or sufficient evidence to establish the tenancy of the appellant. According to the appellant, he is a tenant of […]
Association of Diplomate of National Board Doctors (Petitioner) has filed the current writ petition for quashing of Notification imposing of 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on fee deposited by Diplomate of National Board (DNB) students.
Summary of some key decisions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has been provided below. Criminal law No obligation on Officer-in-charge to arrest accused when filing chargesheet nor arrest pre-requisite formality to take chargesheet on record by Magistrate In Siddharth v. State of Uttar Pradesh the Supreme Court has held that an accused is […]
SC enlarges the ambit of Limitation Act, 1963 for recovery of debts. Learn about the changes and implications of this landmark judgment.
Discharge of interest payable to financial institutions by way of issue of debentures amounts to actual payment of interest and allowed as deduction u/s 43B : SC Case Law : M.M. Aqua Technologies Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax (Supreme Court) Legal Provisions involved As per Section 43B(d) of Income Tax Act, 1961, interest on […]
SC dismissed SLP filed by the department for being a ‘certificate cases’ filed only to save the skin of defaulting officers In Re Union of India vs Vishnu Aroma Pouching (P.) Ltd. [SLP (Civil) DIARY NO(S). 1434/2021 decided on June 29, 2021] the Hon’ble Supreme Court dismissed the Special Leave Petition by looking to the […]
