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...
Supreme Court held that demand notice stands invalid in the eye of law when amount mentioned and demanded in notice send under Proviso (b) to section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act is different from actual cheque amount.
The Supreme Court set aside the e-auction of a DDA plot by Corporation Bank, ruling the underlying mortgage was void ab initio for lacking the mandatory prior consent of the Lieutenant Governor.
Supreme Court reinforces that Section 269SS violation doesn’t invalidate a debt under the NI Act. It upheld conviction in Sanjabij Tari vs. Kishore Borcar, stressing presumptions under Sections 118 & 139.
The principal issue for determination was whether the segregation of the appellant’s trial and filing of a separate charge-sheet solely on account of his being an MLA was legally sustainable, given the statutory framework under CrPC and constitutional guarantees of fairness and equality.
Supreme Court shortens tax appeal deadline to two months for an Educational Society seeking a large income tax refund mistakenly denied, overriding the High Court’s one-year timeline.
Supreme Court held that High Court has rightly arrived to the conclusion that the levy of export duty on goods supplied from the Domestic Tariff Area [DTA] to the Special Economic Zone [SEZ] is not justified.
The Supreme Court, in Abhimanue v. State of Kerala, ruled that a High Court’s inherent power can be used to cancel bail even after a Sessions Court’s dismissal of a plea.
The case of assessee was that the assessments for these years were time-barred. It was urged that in view of the limitation prescribed under Section 19 of the Act, the authority concerned initially declared the assessments for all the years to be time-barred.
The Supreme Court of India has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the authenticity of a B.Com degree presented by an advocate, Naresh Dilawari, after Magadh University declared it to be forged. The court’s order follows a dispute where the degree’s veracity was challenged, leading to the CBI being tasked with investigating and submitting a report.
This summary outlines the Supreme Court’s analysis of a major land dispute, focusing on the legal arguments and judicial precedents concerning a government agency’s failure to file a timely appeal.
