'Right To Live As Per Own Will': MP High Court Refuses To Interfere With Decision Of Adult Woman To Move Out Of House To Pursue Studies

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday refused to accede to the request of a family to bring their adult daughter (Petitioner) back to them, under police custody, and to further hand her over to them. The Petitioner, who eloped from her house to pursue further studies and aspired to be an IAS Officer, had approached the Court seeking protection from her family.Justice Nandita Dubey...

"Input Service" No Longer Includes Services For Personal Use Or For The Employee Post April 1, 2011: CESTAT

The Chennai Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled that the definition of input service as it stood prior to April 1, 2011, in which the phrase "activities relating to business" was included, which had a very wide ambit and would include almost all services used for the activities of business, however, after the amendment the services for personal...

Rajasthan HC Directs Reliance Jio To Shift 4G Tower Creating Inconvenience To Devotees Visiting Gurudwara Within 2 Months

The Rajasthan High Court has directed Reliance Jio to shift its 4G mobile tower from the existing place to 15-20 feets away from the gate of a Gurudwara within a period of two months. The plea was filed by Shri Labana Gawaria Sikh Samaj Sewa Samiti, Jodhpur through Its Secretary - Kripal Singh Sodhi. Essentially, the petitioner sought directions to the respondents to...

NGT Imposes ₹3 Crore Penalty On J&K Govt Over Pollution In Doodh Ganga & Mamath Kull

The Principal Bench of Nation Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday imposed a penalty of Rs. 3 Crore on the Jammu and Kashmir Govt for failure to prevent illegal mining, discharge of sewage and dumping of solid waste into river Doodh Ganga and Mamath Kull. The order issued in the matter of Raja Muzaffar Bhat Applicant Versus Union of India & Ors. reads that this inaction from the part...

Delhi High Court Directs DMRC To Pay Decretal Amount Of Over Rs 6K Crores To DAMEPL In 2 Instalments By May 31, 2022

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to pay the decreetal amount to Reliance Infrastructure-promoted Delhi Airport Metro Express Pvt Ltd (DAMEPL) in latter's plea seeking enforcement of the arbitration award dated May 11, 2017 in two installments by May 31, 2022.The Court directed that part-payment must be paid within two weeks.DAMEPL submitted...

"Acted Out Of Sudden Provocation": Orissa High Court Converts Conviction U/S 302 to U/S 304 Part II, IPC Of A Man Accused Of Killing His Mother

The Orissa High Court has recently converted the conviction of a person charged under Section 302 of IPC, for killing his own mother, to one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 Part II, IPC. While providing relief to the accused, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar and Justice R.K. Pattanaik observed, "The fact also remains that the accused...

'Factum Of Cohabitation & Marriage Can't Be Proved With A Single Photograph Together': Madras High Court

While dismissing an appeal suit filed by a woman claiming 1/7th share for herself and her son in the ancestral property of her deceased husband's family, Madras High Court has underscored that the factum of marriage cannot be inferred from a single photograph where both are seen together.The single-judge bench of Justice G. Jayachandran added that though the courts should generally 'lean...

Union Minister Narayan Rane, MLA Son Nitesh Approach Bombay High Court To Quash FIR In Disha Salian Case

Union Minister Narayan Rane and his son, BJP MLA Nitesh Rane, have approached the Bombay High Court to quash Mumbai Police's FIR over allegedly spreading false information about late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's former manager Disha Salian's death.The duo states that the FIR is politically motivated. "The motive for malicious prosecution of political rivalry is to harass the Petitioners....

Leasing & Maintaining Of Industrial Gas Plant Doesn't Qualify As "Job Work": AAR

The Orissa Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) consisting of G.K. Pati (CGST Member) and Hrushikesh Mistra (SGST Member) has ruled that the leasing and maintenance of hydrogen and nitrogen gas plants does not qualify as "job work".The applicant, a Government of India undertaking in the business Petrochemical, owns and operates an oil refinery in the state of Odisha located at...

Delhi High Court Orders Videographed Autopsy Of India's Palestine Envoy Mukul Arya On Mother's Plea Alleging Foul Play

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court to immediately constitute a panel of doctors from the AIIMS hospital for conducting a Post Mortem and Autopsy on IFS Mukul Arya, India's representative to Palestine who was found dead in his office premises in Ramallah last week.The plea was mentioned earlier today before a division bench headed by Justice Vipin Sanghi which was allowed. The plea...

Appeal U/S 260A Of Income Tax Act Can't Be Entertained Except On The Ground Of Perversity/Lack Of Evidence: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court bench consisting of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice Talwant Singh has dismissed the appeal against the deletion of income tax addition for share or bogus purchases or cash deposits and held that appeal under section 260A of Income Tax Act cannot be entertained by High Court except on the grounds of perversity or for the complete lack...

Do The Needful: Kerala High Court Direct Hospital On Plea For Termination Of Pregnancy By 10Yr Old Rape Victim

The Kerala High Court on Thursday came to the aid of a 10-year old girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her father, by permitting her to undergo medical termination of her 8-month (30 weeks) old pregnancy.Finding the plight of the girl who became pregnant at such a tender age 'unfortunate', Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan allowed the plea for medical termination of pregnancy moved by the...