Telangana BRS MLAs Poaching Case Against BJP : Supreme Court Asks CBI To Not Begin Investigation

The Supreme Court of India on Monday orally asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to not begin an investigation into an alleged conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party to poach Telangana’s Bharat Rashtra Samiti legislators. A division bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh was hearing the state police’s plea against a decision of the Telangana High Court to transfer...

Commercial Court Shall Not Allow Written Statement To Be Taken On Record After Lapse Of 120 Days From Service: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that the Commercial Court shall not allow a written statement filed in a suit to be take on record if 120 days has passed since the date of service of summons. A single bench of Justice C S Dias observed that under Section 16 of Commercial Courts Act, 2015, the Code of Civil Procedure,1908 will stand amended while being applied to commercial disputes as...

Madras High Court Issues Notice On Online Gaming Company’s Plea Against CB-CID Notice Over Gamer's Suicide

The Madras High Court has issued notice to the State Police on a plea by Pay Games 24x7, an online gaming company based out of Mumbai challenging the notices issued by CB-CID in connection with the investigation into the suicide of a gamer. Justice G Chandrasekharan has directed the Tamil Nadu Government, CB-CID and Chennai police to file their counters by March 14. After the...

Supreme Court Affirms Order To Remove Mosque From Allahabad High Court Premises; Allows Waqf To Request State For Alternative Land

The Supreme Court, on Monday, affirmed the order passed by the Allahabad High Court in 2017 for the removal of a mosque named "Masjid High Court" from its premises.While dismissing the special leave petitions filed by Waqf Masjid High Court and the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, a bench comprising Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar granted three months time to the petitioners to remove the...

Make RTE Act Compulsory Subject In All Law Schools: PIL In Delhi High Court

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction for asking Bar Council of India (BCI) to consider making Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, or RTE Act, a compulsory subject for students in all law colleges and universities.The plea is likely to be heard by division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and...

NGT Directs NHAI To Pay 2 Crore Compensation For Violation Of ‘Green Highway Policy,2015’ .

The bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel(chairperson), Justice Sudhir Agrawal (judicial member), Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi (Judicial Member), Dr. A.Senthil Vel, (expert member) of National Green Tribunal, principal bench, New Delhi directed the National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) to pay compensation of 2 crore to PCCF,Haryana for non compliance of environmental obligation and...

Calcutta High Court Grants Bail To Accused Under NDPS Act Citing Non-Compliance Of S.41B CrPC

The Calcutta High Court recently granted bail to two accused persons in a NDPS case on the grounds that Section 41B of CrPC was not complied with, there were discrepancies in the documents of seizure. While allowing the bail application of the accused persons the division bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Justice Rai Chattopadhyay held:“The provisions of Section 41B of the Code...

Applications For Refund Of ITC Cannot Be Denied On Mere Suspicion: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that applications for refund of Input Tax Credit (ITC) cannot be rejected merely on suspicion and without any cogent material. The division bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Amit Mahajan directed the department to initiate a refund of ITC of Rs. 72,03,961/-based on the goods that the petitioner has exported. In this case, the petitioner filed...

Bombay High Court Quashes Reassessment Proceedings Against Jetair

The Bombay High Court has quashed the reassessment proceedings against Jetair Pvt Ltd, a group entity of Jet Airways (India) Ltd, and has set aside the notice issued by the revenue department under Section 148 of Income Tax Act, 1961 against Jetair, seeking to reopen assessment for the relevant assessment year. The bench of Justices Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Kamal Khata rejected...

Supreme Court Issues Notice To Gujarat Police On TMC Spokesperson Saket Gokhale's Bail Plea

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Gujarat police on the petition filed by Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale challenging the order of the Gujarat High Court which denied him bail in case related to alleged misappropriation of funds collected through crowdfunding.A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath issued notice returnable within two weeks on...

[Illegal Mining] Meghalaya High Court Calls For Stricter Norms To 'Stop Plundering Of Natural Resources'

The Meghalaya High Court recently directed the State Government for preparation of a blueprint to maintain the condition of roads in the State besides working out a “stricter set of norms” both for checking and control to stop the plundering of the bountiful natural resources available in the State.The observations were made by the division bench of the High Court comprising Chief...

Jammu & Kashmir High Court Comes To Aid Of Below Poverty Line Woman "Duped" Of Employment By Govt Officials To Oblige Sarpanch

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently observed that the perversity of an action or decision by a public authority/official, acting in the domain of public administration, irrespective of the tier of the administration, has no hiding from the pendular gaze of the Rule of Law which may for a given case get late but not defaults in catching up with the wrong deed and...