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...
The members of the suspended Board of Directors of the corporate debtor who wish to meaningfully participate in meetings held by the committee of creditors are entitled to get a copy of insolvency resolution plans from the resolution professional along with the notice of meetings.
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016 paves way for a consolidated and un-bifurcated exhaustive law for insolvencies and bankruptcies applicable to corporate persons, firms and individuals.
Supreme Court has upheld High Court Order holding that edible oil, vanaspati and sugar are covered under he definition of agricultural produce under Section 2(1)(a) of the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963, for the purpose of levy of market fee.
Union of India & Ors. Vs Ms. Make My Trip (India) Pvt. Ltd. (Supreme Court) The issue is as to whether the power of arrest under Section 91 of the Finance Act, 1994 can be exercised without following the procedure as set out in Section 73A(3) and (4) of the said Act. The High Court […]
New Delhi Municipal Council Etc. Vs Association Of Concerned Citizens Of New Delhi And Others Etc. (Supreme Court of India) FACTS – NDMC made NDMC House Tax Bye-laws, 1962 and was published on 24th April, 1964. Section 60 empowers levy of taxes which includes property tax. NDMC adopted existing 1962 bye-laws in so far as levy […]
It was held that in determining whether the presumption has been rebutted, the test of proportionality must guide the determination. The standard of proof for rebuttal of the presumption u/s 139 is guided by a preponderance of probabilities.
CIT Vs M/s Reliance Industries Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) The appeal was filed by the Department (appellant herein) before the High Court against the judgment of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). However, the said appeal was defective and the appellant took abnormal time of 1371 days in removing those defects. An application for […]
Balakrishnan Vs Union of India & Ors (Supreme Court of India) As far as the acquisition of the land was concerned, assessee had succumbed to the action taken by the Government in this behalf. He was put in such a condition that he knew that his land would be acquired and he could not reiterate […]
Ram Chet Verma & Anr. Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. (Supreme Court) Since the appellants have served as per the interim order, obviously they have to be paid the salary for the period they have rendered their services. Non-payment of salary to them for the period they have served under the interim order or otherwise would tantamount to taking begar from them, which is prohibited under Article 23 of […]
Internal auditors could not claim parity of pay scale as that of the Head Clerk in the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) merely because they were categorised in same Group XII of Head Clerks as the nature of duties and responsibilities of Internal Auditors were different from Head Clerks.
