Five Reasons Why Delhi High Court Held Restaurants Cannot Levy Mandatory Service Charge On Food Bills

In an important judgment, the Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that service charge or tip is a voluntary payment by the customer and cannot be charged compulsorily by restaurants or hotels on food bills.Justice Prathiba M Singh thus upheld the guidelines issued by Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) in 2022 prohibiting hotels and restaurants from levying service charges...

Breaking | Gujarat High Court Extends Temporary Bail To Aasaram In Rape Case, Tie-Breaker Judge Finds Sufficient Medical Grounds

The Gujarat High Court on Friday (March 28) allowed three months temporary bail to Asaram who was convicted in a 2013 rape case by a sessions court in 2023 and is serving a life sentence.Justice AS Supehia– the third judge who heard Asaram's plea after a division bench earlier today delivered a split verdict, in his order said,"Thus on an overall appreciation of the respective orders passed...

Breaking | Kunal Kamra Gets Interim Anticipatory Bail From Madras High Court In Mumbai Police FIR Over Satire Video

The Madras High Court has granted interim anticipatory bail till April 7 to Kunal Kamra in connection with the FIR lodged against him at Mumbai over his alleged remarks against Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde. Kamra has been asked to execute the bail bond before the jurisdictional Magistrate. Though the FIR is lodged in Mumbais's Khar police station, Kamra being a resident of Tamilnadu...

Illegal Or Unlawful Content Can't Be Protected Under Fundamental Right To Free Speech: Union Tells Karnataka HC In X Corp's Plea

The Union Government has said that illegality or unlawful content cannot attract the same level of Constitutional protections as Free speech.The submissions were made by the union in its objections filed seeking dismissal of the petition filed by X Corp with exemplary cost. 'X' corp had approached the Karnataka High Court to declare that Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act,...

RG Kar Incident Not Gang Rape, Investigating Alleged Cover-Up: CBI Tells Calcutta HC, State Questions Revival Of Concluded Investigation

The CBI on Friday told the Calcutta High Court that it had concluded from its investigation and available expert medical opinion that the rape and murder incident of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar medical college and hospital was not an instance of gang rape.DSG appearing for the CBI told Justice Tirthankar Ghosh that the agency was presently investigating the involvement of people in...

High Court Grants Interim Bail To Delhi Riots Accused To Arrange Funds For Daughter's Academic Fee

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail to Mohd. Salim Khan, accused in the UAPA case alleging a larger conspiracy in the 2020 North-East Delhi riots. A division bench comprising Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur ordered Khan's release on interim bail for 10 days in order to permit him to arrange funds for payment of academic fees of his daughter who is pursuing law...

MSME Council Cannot Pass Award On Account Of Failure Of Conciliation Proceedings, Has To Refer Matter To Arbitration: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has held that the Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council cannot pass an award on account of conciliation having failed without referring the matter to arbitration. Justice Suraj Govindaraj held thus while allowing the petition filed by M/s Enmas GB Power Systems Projects Ltd. It said, “The matter is remitted to the Karnataka Micro and...

Centre Notifies Repatriation Of Justice CD Singh From Delhi HC To Allahabad HC

The Centre cleared the Supreme Court Collegium recommendation to transfer Delhi High Court judge Justice Chandra Dhari Singh to Allahabad High Court.A notification in this regard was issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice on Friday.The Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and also comprising Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant in November 2024 had recommended Justice...

Centre Approves Transfer Of Justice Yashwant Varma To Allahabad High Court Amidst In-House Inquiry Over Cash Row

The Central Government today (March 28) notified the repatriation of Justice Yashwant Varma from Delhi to the Allahabad High Court based on the Supreme Court Collegium's recommendations on March 24. Justice Varma is facing an in-house inquiry by a 3-judge panel constituted by the Chief Justice of India over the allegations regarding the discovery of illicit cash currencies at his...

Order Restraining Revenue From Taking Coercive Steps For Recovery Of Demand Can Interdict Adjustment Of Refunds: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that when an appellate authority has asked the Income Tax Department to not take any coercive steps against an assessee for recovery of outstanding demands, the same can in some cases interdict the Department from adjusting the outstanding amount from refunds due to the assessee.A division bench of Justices Vibhu Bakhru and Tejas Karia took note of a Punjab...

'Can't Shut Our Eyes' To Fact That Asaram Is Rape Convict, No Need Shown For Temporary Bail: Justice Sandeep Bhatt In Split Verdict

In a split verdict given by the Gujarat High Court on Friday on Asaram's temporary bail plea, Justice Sandeep Bhatt in his dissenting opinion said that it seemed that Asaram was only interested in extending the interim bail granted by Supreme Court earlier this year on medical grounds, without "properly utilizing the time period". Justice Bhatt further said that though the court is aware that...

Delhi HC Asks MP Engineer Rashid To Deposit 50% Amount Demanded By Jail Authorities For Parliament Visit, ₹4 Lakh To Be Paid Within 3 Days

The Delhi High Court on Friday (March 28) ordered jailed Jammu and Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid to deposit ₹4 lakh (approx) with the jail authorities, so as to attend the second part of the Parliamentary session which ends on April 04.The figure is 50% of the total amount demanded by the jail authorities (₹8.74 lakhs) to enable his Parliament visit 'in-custody', which was ordered by the...