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Supreme Court To Consider Online Gaming Companies' Plea Against 28% GST In January 2024
The Supreme Courton Friday (December 15) posted a batch of writ petitions filed by online gaming companies, including Dream 11, Games 24x7, and Head Digital Works, challenging the constitutional validity of imposition of a 28% GST, to January 8, 2024.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra refused to pass interim order in favour...
Won't Enforce Condition Of 3 Year's Practice Or 70% LLB Marks For Civil Judge Exam 2023 : MP High Court Tells Supreme Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (December 15) informed the Supreme Court that all candidates will be allowed to appear for the Civil Judge Junior Divison (Entry Level) Recruitment exam 2023, regardless of meeting the requirement of having a minimum of 3 years of practice at the bar after enrollment or 70% marks in the LLB exam.Based on this submission made by the High Court,...
IBC | When Matter Heard But No Order Pronounced On The Same Day, Limitation To Commence From The Date When Order Gets Uploaded: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that when the National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”) hears a matter on a particular date but does not pronounce the order on the same date, then the limitation for filing an appeal from such order before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”) under Section 61 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”), would commence from the...
IBC | When Matter Heard On A Particular Date But Order Pronounced Later, NCLT Not To Affix Date Of Hearing On Order: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that when a matter is heard by the National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”) on a particular date but the order is pronounced on another date, then NCLT must refrain from affixing the date of hearing on the order. The requirement of pronouncement of order cannot be dispensed with, since under the NCLT Rules, 2016 there is a distinction between 'hearing'...
Election Commissioners Bill Affects Independence Of ECI, Will Make Free & Fair Elections A Chimera : Justice RF Nariman
Former Supreme Court Justice Rohinton F Nariman opined that the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023, passed by Rajya Sabha two days ago, should be struck down as it severely imperils the independence the Election Commission.“We have to now see how this bill becomes an act and I am certain that it...
Supreme Court Stays Felling Of Trees In Pune's Ganeshkhind Road Till Dec 21; Asks Appellant To Approach Bombay HC
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed till December 21 the felling of trees for the widening of Gansehkhind Road in Pune to enable the petitioners challenging the action of the Pune Municipal Corporation to approach the Bombay High Court.A bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing an appeal against the interim order of the Western Zone of...
Tribunal Cannot Direct Framing Of Policy By Government: Supreme Court Sets Aside AFT Direction On JAG
The Supreme Court on Thursday (14.12.2023) held that a Tribunal subject to the High Court's jurisdiction under Article 226, cannot be permitted by law, to direct the framing of a policy by the Government. A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Sanjay Karol was considering whether the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) could have issued a direction to the Government to frame a policy for filling...
Courts Must Instantly Stop Onslaught On Media, Raids Due To Independent Reporting Illegal : Justice RF Nariman
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman said that the Courts must be vigilant to instantly stop the onslaught on the media. If raids are carried out against a media house because of some independent reporting done by it, then the Courts must declare such raids illegal and unconstitutonal on that ground alone, he said.If the media is not protected, then we are finished, the...
'Recent Happenings In Country Disturbing' : Justice RF Nariman On BBC Raids, Governors' Inactions, ECI Bill, 370 Judgment
Justice Rohinton F Nariman, former Supreme Court judge, in a hard-hitting speech, said that disturbing events have been taking place in the country."What has happened in the recent past in this country is most disturbing. And I may share with you four things that have happened this year itself," Justice Nariman said while delivering the Smt Bansari Sheth Endowment Lecture on 'Constitution:...
Delhi Riots: Court Rejects Tahir Hussain's Plea Seeking Stay On PMLA Proceedings Till Framing Of Charges In UAPA Case
A Delhi Court on Friday rejected a plea moved by Aam Aadmi Party Councillor Tahir Hussain seeking stay on the proceedings in a money laundering case registered against him in relation to the 2020 riots, till the framing of charges in the UAPA case alleging larger conspiracy in the violence. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat dismissed Hussain's plea and said that there is no judgment of...
Supreme Court Rejects Abhishek Banerjee's Plea To Gag Media From Reporting Calcutta HC Hearing In Recruitment Scam Case
The Supreme Court on Friday (December 15) declined Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee's request for a gag order restraining media coverage of the proceedings before a single judge of the Calcutta High Court monitoring the probe into an alleged multi-tier recruitment scam in the state. During today's hearing, Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan pressed for a 'suspension...
