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JKL High Court Raps Medical Officer For Issuing Disability Certificates To Motor Accident Victims For 'Extraneous Considerations', Orders Inquiry
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently censured a medical Officer for conducting grave professional misconduct by issuing number of Permanent Disability Certificates, though being not competent to issue such certificates, and help beneficiaries to get hefty amount of compensation from the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals from time to time without there being any such...
Advance Collected From Allottes Towards Payment Of Maintenance Charges Or Taxes Is Operational Debt: NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”), Mumbai Bench comprising of Shri Kishore Vemulapalli (Judicial Member) and Shri Prabhat Kumar (Technical Member), while adjudicating an application filed in Innova Premises Co-operative Society Limited v Marathon Nextgen Realty Limited, has held that money collected from allottees for payment towards maintenance charges or taxes of the...
Stadium Provided By Tamil Nadu Cricket Association For IPL Matches, Not Taxable As ‘Infrastructural Support Service’ To BCCI: CESTAT
The Chennai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has ruled that the Chepauk Stadium provided by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association for conduct of the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, does not attract service tax. The Tribunal dismissed the Revenue Department’s contention that the same was in the nature of infrastructural support service provided...
Kerala High Court Reserves Order On Pulsar Suni's Bail Plea In 2017 Actor Assault Case
The Kerala High Court on Monday reserved its decision on the bail application of Sunil N.S., also known as 'Pulsar Suni', the main accused in the 2017 Actor Assault Case.Justice P.V Kunhikrishnan noted that there are several decisions which state that the gravity of the offence would also have to be considered in such offences, and that simply because an accused has remained in jail for so...
Karnataka High Court Weekly Round Up [February 20 - February 26, 2023]
Nominal Index [Citations 71 - 81]Vuppalapti Satish Kumar And VTH Source Components Pvt Ltd. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 71H.Nagabhushana Rao And The Under Secretary FFR Division & Others. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 72Siddalingappa S T And Karnataka State Human Rights Commission. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 73Arunkumar N. T And Deputy Commissioner of Police & others. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 74Times Now BCCL And...
26-Yrs Old Woman Grown Up To Understand Informal Relationship: Calcutta High Court Sets Aside Rape Conviction For Alleged False Promise To Marry
The Calcutta High Court recently acquitted a person, convicted by trial court for the offence of rape, on the ground that the victim being fully grown up lady voluntarily consented to having sexual intercourse with the accused and it cannot be said to be a case of consent under misconception due to false promise of marriage.The division bench of Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Ajay...
Clause Exclusively Empowering Chief Project Manager To Appoint Arbitrator From A Panel Maintained By It, Illegal: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has reiterated that when a person has itself become ineligible by operation of law to act as an arbitrator, it cannot nominate another person to act as arbitrator. The bench of Justice Yashwant Varma was dealing with an arbitration clause which exclusively empowered the Chief Project Manager to appoint the arbitrator from a panel which was itself maintained...
Odisha Governor Inaugurates Refurbished ‘Museum Of Justice’ In Cuttack
The Governor of Odisha Prof. Ganeshi Lal on Saturday inaugurated the refurbished ‘Museum of Justice’ inside historic Barabati Quila of Cuttack. The event was attended by Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar, Judges of the High Court, former CJI Justice G.B. Patnaik and former Chief Justice of Tripura High Court Justice Jaswant Singh.Realizing the need to preserve...
Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 20 To February 26 2023
Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 57 To 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 66 NOMINAL INDEX Jay Shah v. The Commissioner of Police and others, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 57 M/s Galatea Limited v. The Registrar General and others, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 58 Lakshmanan v. The Secretary SHRC, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 59 Shankar @ Savukku Shankar v. State and others, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 60 C.Ve. Shanmugam...
Order Passed Under Section 11 Of The Arbitration And Conciliation Act Cannot Be Reviewed: Calcutta High Court
The High Court of Calcutta that the A&C Act is a complete code in itself and it does not contain any provision for the review of an order passed under Section 11 of the Act. The Bench of Justice Shekhar B. Saraf held that power of review is a creature of statute and unlike the Supreme Court which has inherent power of review under Article 137 of the Constitution of India, no...
Kerala High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 20 To February 26, 2023
Nominal Index [Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Ker) 89-101]Kottayam Municipality & Anr. v. The Chairperson, Kerala State Human Rights Commission & Ors. 2023 LiveLaw (Ker) 89State of Kerala rep. by the Addl. Secretary to the Government v. The Chancellor, 2023 LiveLaw (Ker) 90Anilkumar & Anr. v. State of Kerala, 2023 LiveLaw (Ker) 91Gireesh V Antony, 2023 LiveLaw (Ker) 92Southern Railway V M...
Arbitration Under Section 42 Of Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 Would Override A Contractual Arbitration Clause: Telangana High Court
The High Court of Telangana has held that arbitration under Section 42 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 would override a contractual arbitration clause entered into between the parties. The bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan held that Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 is a special legislation and Sections 42 and 51 of the Act gives it an overriding act over other acts and...