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...
CBDT Etc. Vs Lakshya Budhiraja & Anr (Supreme Court of India) Learned Additional Solicitor General submits that matters are pending in Allahabad, Delhi, Telangana and Kerala. The petitions before the High Courts are stated to be predicated on a challenge to the Faceless Appeal Scheme, 2020 on the ground that no ‘personal hearing’ has been […]
State of West Bengal v. Calcutta Club was nothing but more than a milestone judgment achieved by the GST council. For interpreting this case we have used several tools like referring to the Golden rule, literal rule, internal & external aids of construction like referring the Preamble of the constitution, definitions, reading of the code, title, foreign judgments, set precedents, statements of objects & reasons, Purpose Test, comparison between similar structures and other literal ideas for the true construction.
Somesh Thapliyal Vs Vice Chancellor (Supreme Court of India) The bargaining power is vested with the employer itself and the employee is left with no option but to accept the conditions dictated by the authority. If that being the reason, it is open for the employee to challenge the conditions if it is not being […]
Goods and Services Tax (GST) Notifications and Circulars Requirement of GST audit and reconciliation statement by professionals removed with effect from 1 August 2021: The Ministry of Finance has appointed 1 August 2021 as the date on which the provisions of Sections 110 and 111 of the Finance Act, 2021 have come into force. These […]
Hon’ble Supreme Court dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) as alternative remedy of appeal against the Assessment order is available with the Petitioner.
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 […]
