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Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea By Civil Judges Challenging Eligibility Condition For UP Higher Judicial Service Suitability Test
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea preferred by Senior Division Civil Judges aggrieved by the notification dated May 30, 2022 issued by the State of UP which only made the officers who had completed three years of experience till December 31, 2021 eligible for taking Suitability Test of UP Higher Judicial Service-2020.The petition was listed before the bench of Justices...
Kerala Court Sentences Three Accused After They Plead Guilty In Kalamassery Bus Burning Case
A court in Kerala on Monday sentenced Thadiyantavida Nazeer, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, and his accomplice to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment in the 2005 Kalamassery bus burning case while sentencing another accused in the case to 6 years imprisonment.NIA Special Court Judge K Kamanees had convicted them last week after the trio admitted their guilt in the case. The sentence...
Arbitration Cases Monthly Round-up: July 2022
Supreme Court: Court Under Section 34,37 Arbitration Act Cannot Modify An Award ; It Can Only Remand: Supreme Court Case Title: National Highways Authority of India versus P. Nagaraju @ Cheluvaiah Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 584 The Supreme Court observed that, under Section 34 or 37 of Arbitration and Conciliation Act, a Court cannot modify the award passed by the...
Purchase Of New House Without NOC From AO Within 2 years: ITAT Allows Capital Gain Exemption
The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Delhi Bench has held that the capital gain exemption is allowable even when the amount invested in a capital gain account is utilised for the purchase of a new house without a NOC from AO within 2 years.The two-member bench of Saktijit Dey (Judicial Member) and Dr. B. R. R. Kumar (Accountant Member) has allowed the expenditure incurred...
Loss On Trading In Shares Done By Directors In Individual Capacity, Cannot Be Attributed To Company: ITAT
The Hyderabad Bench of theIncome Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has ruled that trading losses sustained by the directors of the assessee company in their individual accounts, cannot be allowed as deduction in the hands of the assessee company. The Bench, consisting of members Laliet Kumar (Judicial Member) and Rama Kanta Panda (Accountant Member), held that as per the Companies Act,...
Term Of Future NCLT Members Should Be 5 Years, Supreme Court Tells Centre While Refusing To Extend 3 Yr Term Of Those Appointed In 2019
The Supreme Court, on Monday, turned down a plea seeking modification of the tenure of members of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) appointed pursuant to the notification dated 20.09.2019 issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, from 3 years to 5 years. It refused to extend tenure for the concerned 23 members, but clarified that while making appointments in future the...
TN Bar Council Bars Advocate Accused In Theft Case From Practice
The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry recently passed a prohibitory order against a lawyer for his alleged involvement in a case of theft. It was alleged that the lawyer, K Balasubramani committed theft and by using an aruval had broken lights and also gave threats to one Mr N Marappan and his family members. On a complaint by the said Marappan, a case in Crime No. 326 of 2022 for...
Delhi High Court Directs Income Tax Dept. To Decide The Rectification Applications Filed By Jones LNG Lasalle
The Delhi High Court directed the income tax department to decide the rectification applications filed by Jones LNG Lasalle Property Consultants.The division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Preetam Singh Arora has directed that if any refund is due and payable to the petitioner, it shall be refunded within eight weeks. The petitioner/assessee is in the business of real...
Supreme Court Imposes Rs 5 Lakh Cost On Petitioner Seeking Stalling Of Supertech Twin Tower Demolition
The Supreme Court, on Monday, imposed cost of INR 5 lakh on the petitioner who approached it by way of a PIL seeking alternative direction other than demolition of the Supertech Twin Towers. On 31.08.2021, by a detailed judgment the Apex Court had directed the demolition of the illegal twin towers situated in Section 93A NOIDA, on the ground of serious violation of...
"Question Of Policy": Supreme Court Dismisses Pleas Challenging NEET SS 2022 Exam Pattern Change
The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed petitions preferred by MD Radiation Oncologists and MD Anaesthesiologists NEET SS 2022 aspirant challenging the changed examination pattern which would now consist of 150 questions from the general/basic component of the primary feeder broad specialty subject and from all sub- specialty/systems/component of that primary feeder broad...