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...
Union of India Vs Quarry Owners Association (Supreme Court of India) Rule 89(5) – Restriction on refund of ITC under inverted tax structure- SC reserves order Supreme Court reserved the order on constitutional validity and vires of Rule 89(5) of the CGST Rules which restrict the refund of taxes on input services under inverted tax […]
Superintendent Central Excise & Customs Vs Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Supreme Court) There is little doubt that the situation that emerges is a creation of a secured debt in favour of the State Bank of India on 24.06.1985 and thereafter the transfer of the debt to the respondent Bank. It is the original date of […]
M.M. Aqua Technologies Ltd. Vs CIT (Supreme Court of India) In the return filed by it, the Appellant claimed a deduction of Rs.2,84,71,384/- under Section 43B based on the issue of debentures in lieu of interest accrued and payable to financial institutions. By an order dated 29th October, 1998, the Assessing Officer rejected the Appellant’s […]
Understanding the new rules under the Motor Vehicles Act for awarding just and fair compensation in accident cases. Learn how these rules override earlier judgments.
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay Vs Union of India (Supreme Court of India) Learned amicus has drawn our attention to various instances across the country, wherein various State Governments have resorted to withdrawal of numerous criminal cases pending against M.P./M.L.A. by utilising the power vested under Section 321, Cr.P.C.It merits mentioning that the power under Section 321, […]
Gemini Bay Transcription Pvt. Ltd. Vs Integrated Sales Service Ltd. and Anr. (Supreme Court) Reading of Section 44 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 would show that there are six ingredients to an award being a foreign award under the said Section. First, it must be an arbitral award on differences between persons arising […]
SC HELD in favour of Amazon in a case that pitched Amazon.Com against India’s original retail king Kishore Biyani’s Future Group and Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, which is set to go big on e-commerce.
Shri Saurav Jain & Anr Vs A. B. P. Design & Anr (Supreme Court of India) Whenever a new question of law is raised before the Apex Court, it is fiercely contested that there is a bar for raising a new question of law for the first time as the High Court has not dealt […]
Cancellation of registration of a Trust or Institution under section 12AA/AB of Income-tax Act 1961 – latest Supreme Court decision and legal ramifications Registration of trust or institution Income of a Trust created wholly for charitable or religious purposes or an institution established wholly for such purposes is exempt from income tax if granted registration […]
SC JUDGEMENT ON PERSONAL GUARANTORS OF CORPORATE DEBTOR UNDER THE INSOLVENCY AND BANKRUPTCY CODE, 2016 The Supreme Court of India in its landmark judgment in the case of Lalit Kumar Jain v. Union of India and Others has validated the sections related to personal guarantors enforced via notification dated November 15, 2019 and the Insolvency […]
