GST Rate On Bricks With Less Than 90% Fly Ash Content To Be Charged At 5% Instead Of 18%: Gujarat High Court Clarifies

The Gujarat High Court on 25th September (Wednesday) held/clarified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) applicable to fly ash bricks and blocks with less than 90% fly ash content. The court ruled that the products qualify for the lower GST rate of 5%, than 18% GST rate on products not meeting the 90% fly ash threshold and quashed and aside the orders of the Advance Ruling Authority and...

"Career Of Hundred Students At Stake": High Court Summons Top Punjab Govt Officers Over Non-Payment Of Scholarship Money To Panjab University

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has summoned top officials including Punjab's Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education along with the entire record to explain why the amount of Scholarship has not been paid to the Panjab University.The case pertains to students whose degrees and certificates have allegedly been withheld by Panjab University (PU) pending reimbursement of fees...

Public Prosecutor Cannot Just Act As Per Instructions Of Govt, Must Apply Mind Before Withdrawing Case: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court held that the Public Prosecutor has to apply his mind independently on the material before him and decide whether to withdraw a case even if the Government has ordered for withdrawal. The Single Bench of Justice K. Babu observed that the Public Prosecutor should independently decide that such a case is fit for withdrawal even if there is a direction from the...

Hope Centre And State Will Resolve Dispute: High Court On Shortage Of FCI Godowns In Punjab For Storing Paddy

'Hope and expect that the Central Government as well as the State Government will sit on the same table and resolve the dispute as expeditiously as possible' said the Punjab & Haryana High Court on the issue with regard to the shortage of storage space in Punjab for paddy.Reportedly, the lack of storage space in the FCI's godowns, and the arrival of the new paddy at mandis, has...

Rajasthan High Court Drops Grievous Hurt Charge In FIR Against Temple Security Guards After Complaint By Judicial Officer's Wife

While hearing a plea for quashing an FIR against two security personnel manning the 1300-year-old Eklingji temple, booked for alleged assault in a complaint filed by the wife of a judicial officer, the Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court went on to drop the offence of grievous hurt alleged against the two men from the FIR. In doing so, the court observed that the FIR was bereft of...

In Absence Of Prayer Can't Grant Relief For Classification, When Claim Is For Regularization: MP High Court In Industrial Dispute Case

While setting aside an industrial court's order, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya High Court observed that in a claim for regularization, the Industrial Court should not have granted the relief for classification which had not been prayed for by the workman. In doing so the court, reiterated the "basic difference" between regularization and classification, referring to the Supreme...

Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To Alleged Nepali Citizen Booked For Forging Indian Passport By Using ID Of Another

The Gujarat High Court last week granted regular bail to a man–allegedly a Nepali citizen, who was booked for forging an Indian passport by using "forged ID proof and other documents" in the name of another individual. In doing so the high court reiterated the “bail is rule and jail is exception” principle and that prolonged pre-trial detention could equate to “pre-trial...

Plea In Kerala High Court Seeks Restrictions On Entry Of Non-Hindus To Temples Under Cochin Devaswom Board

A plea has been moved before the Kerala High Court seeking the Court to declare that persons belonging to other religious faiths are not allowed to enter the Temples or Temple compounds under the Cochin Devaswom Board.The Division Bench of Justice Anil K Narendran and Justice P G Ajithkumar has given time to the Cochin Devaswom Board to file their counter affidavit. The petition has been...

Kerala Advocate General Points To Executive Delay In Clearing Appointment Of Additional Judge To High Court

During the swearing in ceremony of five additional judges to the Kerala High Court on Wednesday (October 30), Advocate General K Gopala Krishna Kurup pointed out the executive delay in making the appointment of Justice Paramesara Panicker Krishna Kumar. Justice PP Krishna Kumar was among the five names sworn in as additional judges of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday, taking the strength of...

Officers Provided Studio-Like Facility In Police Station For Lawrence Bishnoi's Interview From Custody, Glorified Crime: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab & Haryana High Court said that the Punjab Police Officers allowed Lawrence Bishnoi to use electronic device and provided a studio like facility to conduct the TV interview which tends to glorify crime.Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal and Justice Lapita Banerji said, "The office of the Officer Incharge of the Police Station was used as a studio to conduct the interview. The...

Teachers Of Private Engineering College Move Bombay High Court Against Poll Duties

Around 90 teachers of a city-based private engineering college have moved the Bombay High Court against their requisition by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for performing poll duties during and before the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections.The petitioner teachers, have taken exception to various communications pertinently the one issued by the ECI on October 16,...

Renukaswamy Murder Case | Karnataka High Court Grants Interim Bail To Actor Darshan On Medical Grounds

The Karnataka High Court has granted interim bail to Kannada Actor Darshan Thoogudeep Srinivas, on medical grounds to undergo spine surgery. Darshan has been held in custody as an accused in the Renukaswamy murder case.A single judge bench of Justice S Vishwajith Shetty had reserved the order after hearing the parties. During the hearing, the court had suggested to the petitioner that a...