Punjab & Haryana High Court Imposes ₹1 Lakh Cost On Police Commissioner For Inaction In Visa Fraud Case

Observing "due to the deliberate laxity on the part of the investigating authorities no action was taken by the police authorities despite lapse of nearly 2 year", the Punjab & Haryana High Court imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh costs on Jalandhar Police Commissioner.An FIR was lodged alleging that the petitioner was duped of over Rs. 4 lakh rupees for providing work permit in...

Bombay High Court Upholds State Govt's Cancellation Of Earlier Dharavi Redevelopment Tender And Award Of Fresh Tender To Adani Properties

The Bombay High Court today (December 20), upheld the tender awarded to Adani Properties Pvt. Ltd. by the State Government for redevelopment of Dharavi slums.In doing so, a division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Amit Borkar found that the cancellation of an earlier tender and award of a new tender to Adani Propertied was not arbitrary or irrational. The earlier...

Follower's Castration Case: Punjab & Haryana HC Directs CBI Court To Decide Afresh Relevance Of Docs Sought By Dera Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Friday (December 20) has asked the CBI court to decide afresh in 4 weeks the relevance of certain documents including statements of witnesses sought by Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim for his defence in a case concerning the castration of his follower.It was alleged that a large number of followers were castrated at the behest of the Dera chief...

Bombay High Court Upholds Election Of Shiv Sena Shinde Faction's Ravindra Waikar To Lok Sabha From Mumbai

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed the election petition filed by Amol Kirtikar, a candidate from Uddhav Thackeray faction, who had challenged the election of Ravindra Waikar, a leader from Eknath Shinde faction, to the 18th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North-West constituency.Single-judge Justice Sandeep Marne held that Kirtikar failed to establish how the alleged acts on part of the...

Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Journalist Rajat Sharma, Orders Take Down Of Deepfake Content

The Delhi High Court has protected the personality rights of senior journalist Rajat Sharma and ordered take down of content generated against him through artificial intelligence and deepfake technology. Justice Amit Bansal restrained 8 defendant individuals and entities from directly or indirectly misusing, misappropriating or exploiting the name, likeness, image, voice, photos, videos etc...

DTAA | Foreign Company Providing Software To Its Agents In India Doesn't Mean It Has 'Permanent Establishment' In India: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that 'software' being an intangible property, cannot alone constitute 'Permanent Establishment' (PE) of a foreign entity in India. PE is defined under Article 5 of the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between India and the United States of America as- a fixed place of business through which businesses of an enterprise are wholly or partly...

BREAKING | 'Not A Dreaded Criminal': Allahabad HC Stays Arrest Of Mohd Zubair Till Jan 6 In Yati Narsinghanand 'X' Post Case

In a significant development, the Allahabad High Court today stayed the arrest of Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt-News, till 6th January in connection with an FIR lodged against him over his post on 'X' (formerly Twitter) regarding an alleged inflammatory speech by Yati Narsinghanand.Orally observing that Zubair is not a dreaded criminal, a bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice...

Kerala HC Exempts Personal Appearance Of BJP's K Surendran Before Magistrate In Defamation Case For Allegedly Calling The Complainant A Thief

The Kerala High Court in an interim order on Friday (December 20) granted exemption from personal appearance to BJP Kerala State President K. Surendran in a defamation case filed by T. G. N. Kumar (T. G. Nandakumar) before the Ernakulam Magistrate Court claiming that the BJP leader called him (Kumar) a thief. The complaint filed by T. G. Nandakumar alleges that BJP National Secretary...

Mohd Zubair's 'X' Posts With Half-Baked Info Threatened India's Sovereignty, Promoted 'Feeling Of Separatist Activity': UP Govt To Allahabad HC

The Uttar Pradesh government today submitted before the Allahabad High Court that a series of X posts by Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt-News, on Yati Narsinghanand's alleged speech contained half-baked information and they damaged and threatened India's sovereignty and integrity. Additional Advocate General Manish Goyal submitted before a bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and...

Political Vendetta Argument Can't Be Used To Curb Legal Proceeding: Rajasthan HC Nixes Municipal Head's Plea Claiming To Be Target Of Political Rivals

Dismissing a plea by the Chairman of the Municipal Corporation, Nawalgarh alleging political vendetta behind show cause notices issued to him, the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court said that political vendetta cannot be used as a shield to curb the initiation of proceedings under the law.The grievance raised by the petitioner was that he belongs to a particular political party and with...

[Taxation Law] Market Research, Promotional Activities, Training Or Deployment Of Software Are 'Auxiliary Functions' Under DTAA: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that “activities such as market research, promotional activities, training or deployment of software would clearly not breach the threshold of auxiliary functions as are envisaged under the DTAA.” Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed between India and the US to prevent International Double Taxation and...

Rajasthan HC Disapproves Of Interim Order Increasing Seats In Medical College, Refuses To Interfere Since Admission Process Was Already Over

While hearing an appeal against a single judge's interim order allowing increase in seats in a medical college, the Rajasthan High Court refused to interfere with the same since the admission process was already over. In doing so the high court, while observing that an interim order increasing the seats should not have been granted, directed the single judge to decide the matter...