Congress Councillor Tapan Kandu's Murder: State Files Appeal In Calcutta High Court Against Single Judge Order For CBI Probe

The State government on Thursday moved a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court against the order for a CBI probe into the death of former Congress councillor of Jhalda Municipality in Purulia, Tapan Kandu who was reportedly shot dead by miscreants on March 13.According to reports, Congress councillor Tapan Kandu and TMC's Anupam Dutta were shot dead on March 13 in separate incidents in...

Delhi Court Reserves Order In Aakar Patel's Plea Against Look Out Circular Issued By CBI; Pronouncement Today At 4

A Delhi Court on Thursday reserved orders on the plea moved by former Amnesty International India Chief Aakar Patel, challenging the Look Out Circular issued against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pawan Kumar will be pronouncing the order today at 4 PM.Patel had sought directions to the CBI for withdrawal of the said Look Out Circular...

NEET-PG Counselling : Supreme Court Refuses To Allow Students Who Surrenderd State Quota Seats To Attend Mop Up Rounds; Permits Them To Rejoin State Seats

In the NEET-PG 2021 Counselling matter, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by students, who had resigned from the seats allotted in the Round-2 of State Quota Counselling, seeking permission to attend the Mop-Up rounds.However, the Court has allowed such students to rejoin the State seats from which they initially resigned by April 9 5 PM.A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud,...

Rajasthan High Court Dismisses PIL Against Solar Plant With 50k Cost; Quotes PM Modi, Obama, Etc.

The Rajasthan High Court recently dismissed public interest litigations opposing the allotment of the land made to the respondent-company for establishing the solar power plant in Riwadi. The court noted quotes of world leaders, scientists and environmentalists on the aspects of climate change and its impact which, by use of renewable energy, can help in reversing the process of...

Monthly Digest Of Tax Cases- March 2022

Supreme Court 1. Supreme Court Rules Tata Steel Has Locus Standi To Challenge Denial Of Input Tax Credit To Its Unit Case Title: Tata Steel Ltd Versus The State Of Jharkhand And Ors. A Bench of Supreme Court, consisting of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M. Trivedi, remanded a matter back to Jharkhand High Court for a fresh decision on Tata Steel's writ petition against the...

PIL Filed To Strengthen Health Services In Rural & Tribal Areas Of Madhya Pradesh: High Court Directs Petitioner To Collect Additional Information

Hearing a PIL seeking directions to strengthen the health services in rural and tribal areas in the State, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench recently directed the Petitioner to collect additional information regarding recruitment of doctors and their compulsory rural posting. The division bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Anil Verma was hearing a writ petition filed...

Breaking: Birbhum Massacre| Calcutta HC Takes On Record CBI Report, Reserves Order In Plea Seeking CBI Probe Into Murder Of TMC Leader Bhadu Sheikh

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday took on record the preliminary report submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the investigation into the violence in Birbhum district of West Bengal, in which 8 persons were killed allegedly in retaliation to the murder of local All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Bhadu Sheikh. The Court reserved its order in a batch of pleas seeking...

Madras High Court Upholds The Validity Of State Law Providing 7.5% Reservation For Govt School Students In Medical Examinations

The Madras High Court on Thursday upheld the validity of the State Law which provides for 7.5 percent reservation of seats in Medical Colleges for government school student. The judgment was passed by the bench of Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy in a batch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Tamil Nadu Admission to...

'Situation Rather Alarming': Delhi High Court Seeks Appointments In Customs & Central Excise Settlement Commissions

The Delhi High Court has sought response from the Central Government over non-functioning of Customs & Central Excise Settlement Commissions, due to incomplete coram.Stating that the situation is "rather alarming", the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla granted two weeks' time for filing a status report.The petitioner, Yashpal Singh, had...

Try To Complete Cross-Examination Of Witness On Same Day : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that once the witness is in the witness box and is being cross examined, every endeavour must be made to ensure that the cross examination is completed on that day. The bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh rendered this observation while considering a SLP assailing Allahabad High Court's order dated March 19, 2021 ("impugned order"). In the...

Arbitral Award Cannot Be Set Aside Merely On The Ground Of Erroneous Application Of Law Or Misappreciation Of Evidence : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday (30th March), held that apart from the grounds mentioned in Section 34(2)(b) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 2013, an arbitral award can be set aside only when it is vitiated by patent illegality, and not on ground of erroneous application of law or by misappreciation of evidence. A Bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna...

"Country Will Go Bankrupt": Delhi High Court Refuses To Order Rs. 1 Crore Compensation For Covid-19 Deaths

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to pass orders for payment of Rs. 1 crore as ex-gratia compensation to families of those who have died due to Covid-19 or due to post Covid infections within one month of recovering."The entire country will go bankrupt," the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla remarked at the outset. It further noted that there...