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Contracts With Municipalities Towards Supply Of Solid Waste Management, Except Bio-CNG Is Exempted From GST: AAR
The Tamil Nadu Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that contracts with municipalities towards supply of solid waste management, except Bio-CNG carried on at the Central Asphaltic Plant for the Greater Chennai Corporation, are exempted from GST. The two-member bench of G. Venkatesh and K. Latha has ruled that contracts entered into with various city corporations and...
"Interim Award Is A Stopover En-Route To The Destination To Final Adjudication Of The Dispute": Calcutta High Court Explains
Recently, the Calcutta High Court has discussed the concept of interim award under the Arbitration Act. The court was hearing a plea by Lindsay International seeking to set aside an order dated 24th August, 2019 by which the petitioner's pleaded that it was an interim order in terms of the Act. Single judge bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya held that the impugned decision dated...
Suspended Management Must Be Provided With A Copy Of The Resolution Plan: NCLT Indore Reiterates
The National Company Law Tribunal, Indore Bench, comprising of Shri Madan B. Gosavi (Judicial Member) and Shri Kaushalendra Kumar Singh (Technical Member), while adjudicating an application filed in Chandraudai Automobiles Pvt. Ltd. v Rajpal Abhikaran Pvt. Ltd., has held that a copy of the Resolution Plan must be provided to the Suspended Management of the Corporate Debtor and has...
PMLA | 180 Days Period Of Provisional Attachment Not Extended By SC Orders Extending Limitation During Covid-19: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has held that the Supreme Court's suo moto orders extending the period of limitation during the Covid-19 pandemic do not apply and will not extend the 180 days period prescribed for provisional attachment of property under Section 5 of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002.A single judge bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya was hearing the plea moved by...
NGT Steps In On Concretization Of Storm Water Drain, Buffer Zone In Ghaziabad
In a major intervention ahead of monsoon, the National Green Tribunal has constituted a joint committee, comprising of NCR Planning Board, Central Pollution Control Board, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, District Magistrate and Nagar Nigam to furnish a factual and action taken report on the lining, covering and concretization of storm water drains in Navyug Market, Ghaziabad, within...
Employee Can't Claim Equal Pay Due To Mere Similarity Of Designation Or Similarity Of Quantum Of Work : Supreme Court
An employee can't claim parity of pay scale with another due to mere similarity of designation or similarity or quantum of work, held the Supreme Court recently."The doctrine of equal pay for equal work could only be invoked when the employees were similarly circumstanced in every way. Mere similarity of designation or similarity or quantum of work was not determinative of equality in the...
IBC | Operational Creditor's Failure To File Its Claim Before Approval Of Resolution Plan Extinguishes Such Claim: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court recently upheld the argument made by an insolvent company having undergone Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, that failure of an Operational Creditor to file its claim with the Resolution Professional during the insolvency resolution process or to challenge the Resolution plan before NCLT/NCLAT, extinguishes its...
Additional Commercial Courts Will Be Functional Within Six Months, Efforts Underway To Make Infrastructure Available: Delhi High Court Told
The Delhi High Court has been told by its administrative side that additional commercial courts will be functional within six months in the national capital and that efforts were being made to ensure that requisite infrastructure is made available for the same.Taking the statement on record, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad...
"Big Fish Are Not Caught, You Are After Small Level Employee" : Supreme Court Grants Relief To Class-4 Officer Against Dismissal Order
Orally remarking that "missing from duty is a major misconduct in paramilitary forces or the army, but may not be so in a civilian employment", the Supreme Court last week(June 30) criticised the Central Government for imposing the penalty of dismissal from service for unauthorised absence from duty on a Grade-IV employee in the Ministry of Steel."Missing from duty is a major misconduct...
Mere Fact That Both Prior & Subsequent User Are Registered Trademark Proprietors Irrelevant For Examining Who Generated Goodwill First: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the mere fact that both the prior user and the subsequent user are registered proprietors is irrelevant for the purposes of examining who generated the goodwill first in the market and whether the latter user is causing misrepresentation in the course of trade and damaging the goodwill of the former user.Justice Navin Chawla added that the action...
Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Election Of AAP MLA Ajay Dutt In 2020 Assembly Polls
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Ajay Dutt in the 2020 Assembly elections, thereby seeking fresh elections from the said constituency.Dutt had successfully contested the Assembly Elections of Delhi (Vidhan Sabha) 2020 from the Assembly Constituency – 48, Ambedkar Nagar (SC), held on February 8, 2020 as a candidate belonging to the...