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Homebuyers as Financial Creditor: Genuine Homebuyer V. Speculative Investor

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that individuals investing for financial returns rather than home ownership cannot invoke Section 7 of the ...

June 8, 2026 234 Views 0 comment Print

SC Keeps Section 16(2)(c) Challenge Alive as ITC Cannot Depend on Supplier Compliance

Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court declined immediate intervention but expressly left open the challenge to the validity of Section 16(2) of the CG...

June 5, 2026 471 Views 0 comment Print

Gambling – GST leviable irrespective of Game of Chance vs. Skill: SC

Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court ruled that whenever money is staked on an uncertain outcome, the activity amounts to betting and gambling for GS...

June 4, 2026 480 Views 0 comment Print

Banning Online Money Gaming is within States’ Power: SC

Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court ruled that once money is staked on an uncertain outcome, the activity becomes betting and gambling regardless of...

June 4, 2026 429 Views 1 comment Print

Procedural Fairness Is Not an Empty Ritual: SC Reasserts Constitutional Sanctity of Natural Justice

Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court held that adjudicatory proceedings cannot survive when authorities rely on undisclosed material or deny meaningf...

June 2, 2026 3369 Views 0 comment Print


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Latest Case Law Related to IBC 2016: January to March 2026

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court upheld joint insolvency proceedings against two interconnected real estate companies due to common management an...

May 21, 2026 345 Views 0 comment Print

Important Case Laws related to IBC 2016 – July – September 2025

Corporate Law : Supreme Court ruled that CoC and RP can surrender financially burdensome assets voluntarily, clarifying moratorium under section 1...

November 20, 2025 5343 Views 0 comment Print

Important Rulings on IBC – January to March 2025

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...

May 21, 2025 1923 Views 0 comment Print

India’s 52nd CJI Hon’ble Mr Justice BR Gavai Finally Takes Oath

Corporate Law : Justice BR Gavai sworn in as India's 52nd Chief Justice. Focus areas include addressing case pendency and improving court infrastr...

May 15, 2025 888 Views 0 comment Print

Latest Case Law Related to IBC 2016: October to December 2024

Corporate Law : Key IBC case law updates from Oct-Dec 2024, covering Supreme Court and High Court decisions on CoC powers, resolution plans, relat...

February 13, 2025 2706 Views 0 comment Print


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SC Refuses to Revive Reassessment as Original Scrutiny Had Examined Relevant Transactions & Details

Income Tax : SC dismissed Revenue’s plea after Gujarat HC held that even proposed additions would not alter MAT liability, defeating escapeme...

June 9, 2026 183 Views 0 comment Print

SC Upholds HC Ruling as Subsequent SC Judgment Cannot Justify ITAT Rectification

Income Tax : The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Bombay High Court's view that a later judicial pronouncement cannot constitute a ...

June 9, 2026 78 Views 0 comment Print

SC Upholds LTCG Addition as Extraordinary Penny Stock Gains Defied Business Logic

Income Tax : The High Court upheld denial of Section 10(38) exemption after concurrent findings established that the share transactions lacked ...

June 9, 2026 132 Views 0 comment Print

Section 138 NI Act Proceedings Continue Despite Personal Insolvency Moratorium: SC

Corporate Law : The Supreme Court examined whether personal insolvency proceedings under the IBC could halt cheque dishonour cases under Section 1...

June 9, 2026 2145 Views 0 comment Print

SC Grants Interim Relief as Entry Tax on Export-Bound Goods Requires Fresh Examination

Goods and Services Tax : The Supreme Court issued notice in a challenge to West Bengals entry tax regime concerning goods meant for export. Interim protect...

June 9, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print


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Bill Seeks SC Regional Benches at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata & Delhi

Corporate Law : The Bill seeks to amend Articles 15 and 16 to allow reservation for backward classes proportionate to their population identified ...

March 4, 2026 3678 Views 0 comment Print

RBI Mandates Alternative KYC Verification Methods for Disabled Customers

Fema / RBI : RBI directs banks, NBFCs, and other entities to implement Supreme Court’s accessibility guidelines for digital KYC, ensuring inc...

August 14, 2025 2193 Views 0 comment Print

CBDT Revises Monetary Limits for Tax Income Tax Appeals

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, ...

September 17, 2024 17448 Views 0 comment Print

Supreme Court Ruling: No Restrictions for Queer Community Accounts

Corporate Law : No restrictions on joint bank accounts or nominations for the queer community, as clarified by the Supreme Court and RBI in August...

August 28, 2024 714 Views 0 comment Print

SC: Procedure for circulation of Letters for adjournment of cases

Corporate Law : Supreme Court of India introduces new procedures for case adjournments effective 14th February 2024, detailing strict guidelines a...

February 14, 2024 2916 Views 0 comment Print


Madras Industrial Investment Corporation Ltd. Vs. CIT – Supreme Court

April 4, 1997 16982 Views 0 comment Print

Since the entire liability to pay the discount had been incurred in the accounting year in question, the assessee was entitled to deduct the entire amount of Rs 3,00,000 in that accounting year This conclusion does not appear to be justified looking to the nature of the liability It is true that the liability has been incurred in the accounting year

Aditanar Educational Institution vs Addl.Commissioner of Income Tax (1997) 3 SCC 346

February 5, 1997 4700 Views 0 comment Print

Dismissing the appeal filled by the Revenue and the cross appeal of the assessee, this Court HELD : 1.1. An educational society or Trust or other similar body running an educational institution solely for educational purposes and not for purposes of profits could be regarded as `other educational institution’ coming within Section 10(22) of the Act. [954-F]

Excise on goods manufactured prior to March 1, 1978 but removed on or after March 1, 1978?

February 28, 1996 828 Views 0 comment Print

The special excise duty was being levied from 1963 upto 1971 by various Finance Acts passed from time to time. It was discontinued from 1972 until 1978 when it was revived by the Finance Act, 1978. Thereafter, it was being levied from year to year by annual Finance Acts.The provisions of these Finance Acts,insofar as the levy of special excise duty is concerned,are identical

SC Judgment on Whether apparent can be considered as real?

March 28, 1995 8430 Views 0 comment Print

Explore the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Sumati Dayal vs. CIT (Commissioner of Income Tax) and understand whether the apparent can be considered as real. The judgment emphasizes the application of the test of human probabilities and surrounding circumstances in taxation matters. Learn about the key findings of the court, the relevance of the case in assessing income, and the caution against the indiscriminate application of the judgment in various scenarios.

Order U/s. 154 includes amended order & rectified order also

January 20, 1995 5489 Views 0 comment Print

Hind Wire Industries Ltd. V CIT (1995) 212 ITR 639 SC- What falls for consideration in the present case is the interpretation of the expression from the date of the order sought to be amended in sub-section (7) of section 154 as it stood then It is obvious that the word order has not been qualified in any way and it does not necessarily mean the original order It can be any order including the amended or rectified order.

N. Nagendra Rao and Company Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh – Supreme Court

September 6, 1994 8367 Views 0 comment Print

he Judgment of the Court was delivered by R.M. SAHAI, J.- Is the State vicariously liable for negligence of its officers in discharge of their statutory duties, was answered in the negative by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh on the ratio laid down by this Court in Kasturi Lal Ralia Ram Jain v. State of U.P

SC explain principles for amending an act retrospectively

July 12, 1994 10402 Views 0 comment Print

The Apex Court in Hitendra Vishnu Thakur v. State of Maharashtra (1994) 4 SCC 602 held that a law which affects the substantive rights of any of the parties, the law cannot be retrospective. Every party has a vested right in substantative law but no such right exists in procedural law.

Lucknow Development Authority vs M.K. Gupta -Supreme Court of India

November 5, 1993 10247 Views 0 comment Print

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by R.M. SAHAI, J.- The question of law that arises for consideration in these appeals, directed against orders passed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (referred hereinafter as National Commission), New Delhi is if the statutory authorities such as Lucknow Development Authority

In a building contract which is one, entire and indivisible there is no sale of goods

November 17, 1992 8356 Views 0 comment Print

In Gannon Dunkerley and Co. and others Vs. State of Rajasthan and others Supreme Court held that in a building contract which is one, entire and indivisible there is no sale of goods, and it is not within the competence of the Provisional Legislature under Entry 48 to impose a tax on the supply of materials used in the contract treating it as sale

A.L.A. Firm v. CIT (Supreme Court) (1991) 189 ITR 285 (SC)

February 21, 1991 7753 Views 0 comment Print

Section 147(b)-Scope of-Assessment year 1961-62-Reassessment-Interpretation and meaning of the word information-Material coming to the notice of the Income Tax Officer subsequent to original assessment-Meaning of the word Escape. Dissolution of Firm-Valuation of closing stoc- Principles-In continuing business closing stock to be valued at cost or market price which ever is lower-Where business is discontinued, the closing stock to be valued at market price.

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