Delhi Court Grants Bail To Lalu Prasad Yadav, Others In Land For Job Scam Case

A Delhi Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and daughter Misa Bharti in the alleged “land for job scam” case.Special Judge Geetanjali Goel of Rouse Avenue Court granted bail subject to the accused persons furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and one surety of like amount each.Bail...

Telangana CM's Daughter K. Kavitha Moves Supreme Court Challenging ED Summons In Delhi Excise Policy Case, Hearing On March 24

Telangana CM's daughter and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K. Kavitha has moved the Supreme Court challenging ED summons in relation to the Delhi Excise Policy case.She was questioned by the agency on March 11 and is required to appear again tomorrow.The matter was mentioned before CJI DY Chandrachud who refused immediate hearing and posted the matter on March 24.Kavitha, presently an...

Murder Trial- Prosecution's Omission to Explain Injuries On Accused Assumes Importance When Evidence Consists Of Interested Witnesses : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, reiterated that omission on the part of the prosecution to explain injuries on the person of the accused assumes greater importance where the evidence consists of interested witnesses or where the defence gives a version which competes in probability with that of the prosecution.A Bench comprising Justice BR Gavai, Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sanjay...

Supreme Court Issues Directions For Installation Of Vapour Recovery System In Retail Petroleum Outlets

The Supreme Court has directed that all the retail petroleum outlets located in cities having population of more than 10 lakh and having turn over of more than 300 KL/Month shall install the Vapour Recovery System(VRS) mechanism. This should be done within the fresh time line prescribed in the circular issued by the Central Pollution Control Board on June 4, 2021.A bench comprising...

Spotlight On Recent Appointments To The Supreme Court - Justice Aravind Kumar

A general criticism of the Indian Courts has been that very little is known to the public about the judges being recommended by respective Collegium before their appointment, on merit and suitability. A designated Secretariat ideally should do the job, unfortunately we don’t have such a mechanism. Livelaw has taken an initiative to share relevant information about the appointees and we...

Himachal Pradesh High Court Refuses To Interfere With State's Policy Refusing Permission To Open New Veterinary Institutes

The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging State's policy to not grant permission to open new Veterinary Pharmacist Institutes, with the objective of bringing uniformity and curtailing their mushrooming growth.The bench comprising Justices Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Mr. Justice Virender Singh observed, "The raison d'être of discretionary power is that it promotes...

Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde : Supreme Court Poses Multiple Questions On Governor's Role | Live Updates From Hearing [March 15]

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will continue hearing today the cases related to rift in Shiv Sena.A bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud will hear the matter. Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha are the other members of the bench.The bench started hearing the matter on merits from February 21. On February 16, it had decided to defer a decision on the...

Reassessment Notice Issued By The AO Merely On The Basis Of Change Of Opinion: Bombay High Court Quashes Order

The Bombay High Court has quashed the reassessment order on the grounds that the only reason for issuing the notice under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act appeared to be that the Assessing Officer had come to a different opinion on the question of valuation than the one adopted by the petitioner.The division bench of Justice Dheeraj Singh Thakur and Justice Valmiki SA Menezes has observed...

Employee Terminated Due To Criminal Prosecution Not Automatically Entitled To Back Wages Upon Acquittal In Appeal: Gujarat High Court Reiterates

The Gujarat High Court on Monday reiterated that an employee who was terminated from services on account of criminal prosecution, would not be able to claim back wages automatically on the ground that he was subsequently acquitted. The single judge bench of Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt observed:“In view of peculiar facts of the present case, it is well settled that grant of back wages is never...

GST Under Reverse Charge Mechanism Is Applicable On Services Of Renting Residential Premises as Guest House: AAR

The Odisha Authority of Advance Ruling has held that GST under the reverse charge mechanism is applicable to services by way of taking residential premises on rent for use as its guest house.The two-member bench of Gopal Krishna Pati and P.K. Mohanty has observed that the nature of rented properties clearly appeared to be residential properties used for commercial purposes.The applicant has...

Stage Of Defendant Producing Documents Under Order VIII Rule 1A(3) CPC Distinct From Tendering Additional Evidence Under Order XLI Rule 25: Sikkim High Court

The Sikkim High Court on Monday underlined the difference between Order VIII Rule 1 A (3) CPC which deals with timeline of filing written statement by the defendant and producing relevnant documents on record, and Order XLI Rule 25 CPC which paves way for a party to tender additional evidence before the trial court after new issues are framed by the appellate court.Justice Bhaskar Raj...

Don't Allow Resolutions Against Kapil Sibal & NK Kaul : KK Venugopal Urges SCBA President Vikas Singh

Former Attorney General for India and Senior Advocate KK Venugopal has written to the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association Vikas Singh advising him to not allow the passing of the resolutions proposed against Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal and Neeraj Kishan Kaul.The SCBA General Body meeting is scheduled to consider tomorrow(March 16) the resolutions proposed against Sibal and Kaul...