Default In Payment Because Of CoVID: Supreme Court Grants Relief To Company To Pay OTS Amount With Interest

The Supreme Court recently granted relief to a company to pay OTS amount with interest considering that the default in payment was due to CoVID.The bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose was considering a SLP assailing Madras High Court's order dated July 22, 2021.The petitioner had availed loan from the State Bank of India. Since, there was default in repayment of the loan,...

MP High Court Grants Custody Of Looted Property Recovered By Police To Income Tax Department As The Same Was Not Disclosed By Complainant

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Gwalior Bench recently dismissed an application moved by a Complainant in a dacoity case, seeking custody of the recovered stolen cash to the tune of Rs. 45 Lakhs. The Court held that since the said amount was not disclosed before the Income Tax Department (IT Department) prior to the incident, the same was liable to be handed over to the IT...

Appointment Under Outstanding Sportsperson Quota Can Be Made Only When There Is 'Direct Affiliation' With Indian Olympic Association: Rajasthan HC

The observation was made in relation to an advertisement issued by the State for the post of Compounder/Nurse Junior Grade.

"No Public Right Is Superior To Defence Of The Country": Uttarakhand HC Dismisses Challenge To Land Acquisition For ITBP Near LAC

The Uttarakhand High Court has recently dismissed a writ petition filed, challenging a notification issued under Section 11(1) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 ("the Act"), which proposed to acquire certain land near the "Line of Actual Control" (LAC) for meeting the purposes of the Indo-Tibetan Border...

'Absolutely Extraneous': Rajasthan HC Quashes Recommendation Rejecting Rape Convict's Plea To Be Sent To Open Air Camp As Other Ladies Living In Camp

The Rajasthan High Court has quashed the recommendation of the respondent-state, which rejected a rape convict's application for being sent to Open Air Camp. The Superintendent of Jail had not recommended the case of the petitioner for being sent to the Open Air Camp as he was of young age and that other convicts are residing in the Camp with their wives and daughters. The Committee...

240 Days Of Work Essential In Preceding Year Of Termination: Gujarat High Court Denies Relief U/S 25F Of ID Act

The Gujarat High Court has affirmed the order of the Labour Court determining that the Petitioner-workman was not entitled to reinstatement on the ground that there was discrepancy in his deposition and the documents produced by him. The Petitioner herein had claimed that he had joined the services of the Respondent in 1983 and was performing the duties of the labourer/table work as...

Delhi High Court Weekly Roundup: March 7 To March 13, 2022

CITATIONS 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 172 TO 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 201NOMINAL INDEXAlapan Bandyopadhyay v. Union of India & Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 172Mujeeb Ur Rehman v. Registrar General, Delhi HC 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 173Kurz India Private Limited Versus Principal Commissioner of Income Tax-5, New Delhi 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 174Jai Singh Goel Versus Chief Commissioner Of Income Tax(Central) 2022...

AO's claim That The Assessee Is Only Into Job Work And Not Manufacturing Rejected, Deduction Allowed By ITAT Delhi

The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) while allowing the deduction under Income Tax Act has rejected the claim of AO that the assessee is only into job work and not manufacturing.The two-member bench consisting of Anubhav Sharma (Judicial Member) and Anil Chaturvedi (Accountant Member) held that the transformation of articles to bring new articles into existence...

'Buses Shall Be Seized If Operators Found Picking & Dropping Passengers In Violation MV Act', Rajasthan High Court

The division bench of Rajasthan High Court ordered that buses shall be seized of those bus operators who are found picking and dropping passengers in violation of relevant rules and regulations framed under the Motor Vehicles Act as also under the local laws. Essentially, the public interest litigation has been filed praying that instead of making operational bus-stand at the...

'Stop Unlicensed Outlets Operating Through Food Delivery Apps' : Restaurateur's Association Approaches Bombay High Court

The Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association has approached the Bombay High Court against food outlets operating "illegally" on food delivery applications like Swiggy. Zomato and Dunzo. The plea filed under Article 226 of the constitution seeks directions for registration of FIR against the applications and to initiate a thorough investigation. As also for all organisations who...

High Court Directs Delhi University To Devise Mechanism For Issuance Of Attested Marksheet Manually To Students In Urgent Need

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi University to put in place a mechanism so that in case of any urgency, a student can write an email to the concerned Dean of Examinations who shall then consider the said request and issue the attested marksheet or transcript manually within a period of 5 working days.Justice Pratibha M Singh issued a slew of other directions in a bunch of pleas...

"No Prima Facie Illegality" : Telangana High Court Refuses To Stay Suspension Of BJP MLAs From Assembly

The Telangana High Court denied relief to BJP MLAs who sought stay on the operation of Telangana Legislative Assembly-respondent's action, suspending them from service for the rest of the ongoing Budget session of the Assembly. The present plea was filed by M. Raghunandan Rao, E. Rajender and T. Raja Singh. The petitioners also sought direction to the Speaker to allow them to...