Lawyers Are Exempted From Paying GST/Service Tax, Do Not Harass Them By Issuing Demand Notices: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court directed the Commissioner GST to issue clear instructions to all the officers in the GST Commission rates in the state not to issue any notice demanding payment of service tax/GST to practising lawyers."It appears that despite knowing fully well that advocates are not liable to pay service tax or GST, notices continue to be issued to them by the GST Commissionerate....

[Covid 19 Vaccination] Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Door To Door Vaccination, Removal Of Age Limitation

A petition in the form of Public Interest Litigation has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking directions on the Union of India through Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Government of NCT of Delhi to remove the age limitations for deciding the beneficiaries of Covid-19 vaccination drive, widen and allow private entities participation in vaccination...

Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Against Alleged Use Of Banned Chemicals By Firework Manufacturers

Supreme Court has on Thursday issued notice in application filed against alleged use of banned chemicals by firework manufacturers, mislabeling of products contrary to Supreme Court's directions.A three judge Bench led by CJI issued the direction while hearing plea filed by three infants from Delhi in 2015, regarding alarming degradation of air quality leading to severe air pollution in Delhi...

Stubble Burning: Centre To Place Ordinance On Stubble Burning Before Supreme Court Next Week

Supreme Court has on Thursday decided to consider next week, Centre's Ordinance framed to deal with the problem of stubble burning. SG Mehta assured the Court that the Ordinance, with modifications approved by the Cabinet yesterday will be placed before the Court next weekA three-judge Bench of CJI, Justice Bopanna and Justice Ramasubramanian was hearing a PIL filed in 2020 seeking directions...

Kerala High Court Refuses Stay On Kerala Government Notification Banning Online Rummy For Stakes

The Kerala High Court on Thursday, refused to interfere with a Kerala Government Notification 'banning online playing of rummy when played for stakes'.Upon a challenge made by four gaming companies, a Single Bench of Justice N Nagaresh expressed his disinclination to interfere with the notification at this juncture an d instead listed the petition after the vacation. However, upon a...

Delhi HC Judge Justice Prathiba Singh, Recuses Herself From Facebook, WhatsApp Pleas Against CCI Order Against Their Privacy Policy

Justice Prathiba Singh of the Delhi High Court today recused herself from 2 pleas filed by Facebook Inc and WhatsApp challenging a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order directing investigation into WhatsApp's contentious new privacy policy, the rollout of which was pushed back due to uproars over it for, inter alia, being discriminatory.The single bench judge recused herself...

What About Bed-Ridden People? Bombay High Seeks Response On PIL For Door-To-Door COVID-19 Vaccination Of Senior Citizens

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday urged the Union and Maharashtra Government to consider – if its vaccination mechanisms can be more user friendly for senior citizens and the differently-abled while directing them to respond to a PIL seeking door-to-door vaccination for persons above 75 years. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni further agreed...

Breaking- Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Mosque Land Title Dispute: Varanasi Court Allows ASI Survey; Expense To Borne By UP Govt

A Civil Court in Varanasi district of UP has allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to undertake a survey at the disputed site of Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque. The Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to bear the cost of the survey.ASI has been asked to do the survey to find if there was a "superimposition, alteration or addition or structural...

BREAKING - 'Serious Allegations' : Supreme Court Dismisses Appeals Of Maharashtra Govt, Anil Deshmukh Against CBI Enquiry On Param Bir Singh's Allegations

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the petitions filed by Maharashtra Government and its former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh challenging the Bombay High Court direction for CBI preliminary enquiry on the allegations raised by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta dismissed the petitions by observing :"Given...

[ED v Kerala Police] Cooperative Federalism Requires Central Agency To Trust State Officers:Kerala Govt Tells High Court

The Kerala High Court today extended its interim order restraining coercive action against officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the cases lodged against the agency by the Kerala Police. The writ petitions against FIRs registered by the Kerala Police were taken up before a Bench of Justice VG Arun today, saw submissions by Senior Advocate Harin Raval on behalf of the...

Supreme Court Allows Deportation Of Rohingyas To Myanmar As Per Procedure Prescribed [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to grant relief in a petition challenging the detention of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and the move to deport them back to their parent country Myanmar."It is not possible to grant the interim relief prayed for. However it is made clear that the Rohingyas in Jammu, on whose behalf the application has been moved, shall not be deported unless the...

Google's Copying Of Oracle's Java SE API Was 'Fair Use', Holds US Supreme Court

Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Google's copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material.The court (6:2) noted that the API included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program.Oracle had sued Google...