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The Supreme Court on Monday admitted the excise department’s plea alleging that Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCBL) was liable to pay duty on water treated and purified by the company for supply to vendors for producing aerated beverages.
The Supreme Court stated last week that concealment of facts from an arbitrator is an act of fraud and new facts which have a bearing on the award should be allowed to be brought before him. The court stated so while allowing the appeal of US-based Venture Global Engineering against the ruling of the Andhra Pradesh high court in its dispute with Satyam Computer Services.
1. Heard counsel on either side at length. Records perused. 2. Even though both sides had cited several decisions of this Court on the scope and application of Section 5 of the Limitation Act, but it is neither necessary nor required to deal with those cases in the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case.
The Supreme Court has taken a sagacious view of the criticism of judges while dismissing a contempt of court case against Union Minister Kapil Sibal. In fact, it encourages “fair and reasonable” criticism of judgments as judges are not “infallible”. What provoked the petition was a message the minister had written for a souvenir brought out by a group of lawyers of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1995.
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) was expected to take over the role of the High Court (in dealing with company law matters such as sanctioning of schemes of arrangement, ordering winding up of companies, dealing with petitions for oppression and mismanagement and the like), the Company Law Board (CLB) and the Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) for speedy disposal of aforesaid matters and avoid multiplicity of litigation before various fora.
Conversion of tarpaulin into `tarpaulin made-ups’ would not amount to manufacture u/s 2(f) of Central Excise Act
The Supreme Court ruled last week that prosecution for issuing a cheque which was dishonoured for want of credit in the bank can be initiated only against the person who issued the cheque and not against the company or directors who were not aware of it.
In various Courts, the statistical data indicates that, on account of delay in process serving, arrears keep on mounting. In Delhi itself, the input indicates that fifty per cent of the arrears in Courts particularly in commercial cases is on account of delay in process serving.
With the pendency of cases refusing to come down from the 50,000 level, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to experiment with email notices to respondents to cut the delay in the traditional method of serving notices. The traditional method — registered post with acknowledgement due — usually takes a long time and mostly results in adjournment of hearings because of non-service of the notices on the respondents.
The Supreme Court had held that High Court cannot interfere in civil disputes like eviction of tenants or property rows as such issues are to be dealt by civil courts. Citing its earlier rulings, the apex court said the writ jurisdiction enjoyed by the High Courts under Article 226 to pass anydirective to the authorities for enforcing the fundamental right of a citizen cannot be used in private disputes unless there is an statutory connotation to it.
