PMO Says Collating Info On Corruption Complaints Against Union Ministers ‘Cumbersome Exercise’, Revealing Info On Black Money Will ‘Impede’ Probe

Even as the BJP claims to have given a corruption-free government, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has, in response to a query on all complaints submitted to the Prime Minister on corruption charges against serving Central ministers, taken shelter under Section 7(9) of the RTI Act.Section 7(9) provides that, “An information shall ordinarily be provided in the form in which it is...

Delay In Getting Free Service Not Ground To Revoke Vehicle’s Warranty: NCDRC Hold Tata Motors, Dealer Liable To Compensate Customer [Read Order]

Observing that some delay in getting free service of the vehicle done would not imply that the user of the vehicle was negligent in its maintenance thereby resulting in revoking of the warranty and that the manufacturer of the vehicle is equally responsible, as is its dealer, for allowing repairs under warranty, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed Tata...

McDonald's Franchisee Made Illegal Profit Of ₹ 7.49 Crores By Denying Benefit Of GST Reduction To Customers : Anti Profiteering Authority [Read Order]

The National Anti Profiteering Authority has found that Hardcastle Restaurants, a franchisee of McDonalds, did not pass on the benefit of Input Tax Credit(ITC) and reduction of GST rates to customers, and has amassed illegal profit to the tune of Rs.7.49 crores between November  15,2017 to January 31,2018The Authority has directed the franchisee to reduce prices in commensurate with...

SCBA Elections Scheduled For December 12

Elections to the Executive Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will be held on December 12.The decision was taken by the Election Committee, and was communicated along with a a brief election programme and list of dates.The provisional voters’ list was published and displayed on the notice board and on the SCBA website on November 16. Post decision on objections received,...

Bar Council Of Delhi Sends Legal Notice To Aaj Tak For Showing Lawyers Trivializing Crime Of Rape

The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) has served a legal notice on TV news channel Aaj Tak for showing lawyers in bad light and demeaning the issue of crime against women in its campaign ‘Saare Jahan Se Sachcha’ where a lawyer is shown extracting hefty fee from a client accused of rape while saying, “Bachche hain, galti ho jaati hai (They are children, will commit mistakes)”.In the legal...

PILs Can’t Be Used As Tool To Wreck Vengeance: Karnataka HC Junks PIL Filed By Woman Who Has Several Pending Cases against Her Husband [Read Order]

“The fundamental object of public interest litigation is to enforce fundamental rights and genuine infraction of statutory provisions but not to set right the private dispute or to bring the parties to terms.”Public Interest Litigation cannot be used as a tool to wreck vengeance, the Karnataka High Court has remarked while dismissing a PIL filed by a lady who had filed criminal cases...

If Woman Is Forced To Leave Company Of Husband Due To Assault, Harassment, It’s Neglect On Part Of Husband To Maintain Wife: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently upheld an order passed by the Sessions Court in Pune allowing an application for maintenance filed under Section 125 of the CrPC by one Chandrabhaga Borhade, nearly 50 years after her marriage with Babanrao Borhade took place.Justice Mridula Bhatkar dismissed the criminal revision application filed by Babanrao challenging Sessions Court’s order allowing...

Orissa HC Quashes Criminal Cases Against Lawyers And Cops As They Express Apology [Read Order]

“I, however, request the Orissa High Court Bar Association to take appropriate measures not to jump on unnecessary strike on prima facie picture of a particular incident, without applying wisdom on the entire issue.” As the cops and lawyers expressed their apology for their respective acts, the Orissa High Court has quashed all the FIRs registered against them.Justice CR Dash...

Compensation Received For Sexual Harassment Not Taxable : ITAT Allows Sushmita Sen's Appeal [Read Order]

In relief to actor-model Sushmita Sen, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Mumbai bench held that amount received as compensation for sexual harassment is not liable to be taxed as income or profits and gains of profession under the Income Tax Act, 1961.  Sushmita Sen had filed the appeal against the confirmation of penalty and addition of certain amounts by the Commissioner of Income...

Disclosure of Loan Defaulters' List : CIC Should Ensure Compliance By RBI, Acharyulu Writes To Chief Information Commissioner [Read Letter]

The outgoing Central Information Commissioner Prof.M. Sridhar Acharyulu has written to the Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur making a fervent plea that CIC should take steps to make the Reserve Bank of India comply with the  orders of CIC to disclose information of willful loan defaulters.The letter comes in the wake of November 16 direction by him to RBI and PMO to disclose...

Nobody, Including Their Parents, Can Interfere If A Boy And Girl (Both Major) Live Together: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

“The Supreme Court in a long line of decisions has settled the law that where a boy and a girl are major and they are living with their free will, then, nobody including their parents, has authority to interfere with their living together.”The Allahabad High Court recently observed that, where a boy and a girl are major and they are living with their free will, then, nobody, including...

Concealing Earlier Marriage While Entering Into Contract Of Marriage Amounts To Fraud By Itself: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

“We don't think it necessary for us to go into the correctness of the said divorce, as concealment of a vital fact for entering into a contract of marriage by itself amounts to fraud and the marriage can be declared as null and void.”The Kerala High Court has observed that concealment of a vital fact about earlier marriage while entering into a contract of marriage by itself amounts to...