Can't Prevent Bidder From Participating In Tender Process On Ground Of Pendency Of Proposal For Blacklisting: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court directed the Nagpur Zilla Parishad to consider a construction firm’s bid for various works, observing that it could not be disqualified merely because the State is considering blacklisting it.A division bench of Justice A. S. Chandurkar and Justice Vrushali V. Joshi held:“While there can be no quarrel with the proposition that in an appropriate case the action...

Supreme Court Monthly Criminal Digest- January 2023

SUBJECT WISE INDEXBailSupreme Court disapproves Allahabad HC dismissing several bail applications on the same day for default. Rahul Sharma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 64Supreme Court overturned a bail condition imposed by the High Court that a person accused of illegally claiming Input Tax Credit must deposit Rs. 70 lakhs, the alleged amount of improperly claimed ITC -...

Centre's Decision To Bar OCI Students From General Seats Will Apply To Only Those Who Register As OCIs After 04.03.2021 : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, on Friday, held that the notification issued by the Central Government in 2021 - which took away the rights of Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) category students to apply for general seats and confined their right only to Non-Resident Indians (NRI) category seats- will apply only prospectively from the date of the notification, which is March 4, 2021.The notification issued...

Gujarat High Court Constitutes Committee To Look Into Alleged Incidents Of Medical Negligence, Mistreatment Of Pregnant Women At Private Hospitals

The Gujarat High Court has constituted a Committee for probe into the alleged incidents of mistreatment of pregnant women at private hospitals in the state."In order to ensure that such incidents do no reoccur and as to how incidents reported in the print and electronic media as narrated by petitioner in the petition had occurred, we deem it proper to constitute a Committee headed by a...

Railway Authority Liable To Pay Compensation Even If Claimant Was Trying to De-board Moving Train: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently held that the Railway Authority is liable to pay compensation under Section 124-A of the Railways Act to a Claimant who met with an accident while deboarding a moving train. Section 124-A of the Railways Act, 1989 (“the Act”) deals with compensation on account of untoward incidents. The bench comprising Justice G. S. Ahluwalia observed...

Chief Justice of Singapore Sundaresh Menon Watches Proceedings Of Chief Justice Chandrachud's Court

Chief Justice of Singapore, Justice Sundaresh Menon watched the proceedings of Court I of the Indian Supreme Court, which is led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud. While commencing the court proceedings, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud welcomed Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and said–"It is my honour and pleasure to welcome Chief Justice of Singapore, Justice Sundaresh Menon. Justice Sundaresh...

Plea In Delhi High Court Alleges ‘Large Scale Rigging’ In LLB, LLM Entrance Exams Of Delhi University

A petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court alleging “large scale rigging”, question paper leak and manipulation of final results in LLB and LLM entrance exams for academic session of 2022. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav directed the varsity and NTA to seek instructions in the matter, while listing it for hearing on March 22. However, the court has not yet issued a formal...

No Simultaneous CIRP Proceedings Against Same Corporate Debtor: NCLT Ahmedabad

The National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”), Ahmedabad Bench, comprising of Dr. Deepti Mukesh (Judicial Member) and Shri Ajai Das Mehrotra (Technical Member), while adjudicating a petition filed in Vrundavan Residency Pvt. Ltd. v Mars Remedies Pvt. Ltd., has held that there cannot be simultaneous CIRP proceedings against the same Corporate Debtor. The Bench declined to initiate...

Orissa High Court Monthly Digest - January 2023 [Citations 1-13]

Nominal IndexAnimesh Chakraborty v. State of Odisha, 2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 1Vedanta Limited, Jharsuguda v. Union of India, 2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 2Soli @ Sulachana Jena & Anr. v. Chief Executive Officer, NESCO (Electrical), Balasore & Anr., 2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 3Sk. Jumman @ Badruddin v. State of Odisha, 2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 4Santosh Kumar Nayak v. State of Odisha, 2023 LiveLaw (Ori) 5Girish...

CRZ Notification 2011 : Storage Facility For Edible Oil Not Allowed Outside Port Area; Supreme Court Affirms Quashing Of Post-Facto Clearance

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, noted that the word ‘within’ used for CRZ-I and ‘in’ used for CRZ-II in the CRZ Notification of 2011 cannot be interpreted to include what is outside the port areas. It is pertinent to note that in CRZ-I, the “storage of edible oil inter alia is permitted within the notified ports” and in CRZ-II, the storage of non-hazardous cargo such as edible...

Following Noise Pollution Rules At Construction Site: Adani-Vizhinjam Port To Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday recorded the submission of the Vizhinjam International Sea Port Limited and Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited that it has been maintaining and will continue to maintain the sound levels at the construction site of the Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport. within the limits prescribed under the Noise Pollution (Regulation...

Nature Of Financial Debt Doesn’t Change Upon Breach Of Consent Terms: NCLAT Delhi

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”), Principal Bench, comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan (Chairperson) and Mr. Barun Mitra (Technical Member), while adjudicating an appeal filed in Priyal Kantilal Patel v IREP Credit Capital Pvt. Ltd. & Anr., has held the nature of financial debt would not change on account of breach of the consent terms. The Bench has...