I-T Assessment Orders Against P.Chidambaram And Family Quashed By Madras High Court [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has quashed the Income Tax Assessment Orders passed against P. Chidambaram, Senior Advocate & Former Union Finance Minister,  his wife Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Advocate, and his son Karthi Chidambaram.  The High Court quashed the order terming it as illegal, arbitrary, and issued without following principles of natural justice.The quashed orders relate to...

Madras HC Now Lays Down Procedure For Filing Vakalat To Weed Out Fake Advocates, Courts Can Ask Advocate To Furnish ID In Case Of Doubt

In line with its efforts to weed out fake lawyers or goondas and black and white with law degrees from letter pad colleges, the Madras High Court has now laid down procedures to be followed for filing vakalat which will be applicable for filing cases before all courts/ tribunals in Tamil Nadu.The new set of procedure would come into effect from January 2, 2018.Justice S Vaidyanathan...

Delhi HC Allows 4-Yr-Old Child Repeat LKG Class On Parents’ Request [Read Order]

In a case of its kind, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed that a 4-year-old girl studying in LKG be allowed to repeat the class and not promoted to the next higher class as her parents said she is a slow learner with delayed cognitive development and requires more time to cope up with other children of her age and promoting her to next level would be of no good.Justice Indermeet...

Lawrence Liang Gets Infosys Prize-2017 for Social Sciences

Lawrence Liang, Professor, School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University, Delhi, has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2017 for Social Sciences.Lawrence Liang studied at the National Law School of India University and the Warwick University, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Yale, Michigan and several other universities. He is the co-founder of the Alternative Law Forum,...

ITAT Upholds CIT(A) Order Confirming Addl Rs. 4.99 Lakh As Unexplained Cash In Muthoot Group MD’s Bank Accounts [Read Order]

In George Alexander vs The Assistant Commissioner of Income-Tax, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has dismissed an appeal filed by the assessee, managing director of the Muthoot Group, against the order of the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) (CIT(A)). The issue raised in the appeal was whether the CIT(A) was justified in confirming the addition of Rs. 4,99,287 as unexplained...

Delhi HC Permits Arbitral Tribunal To Decide On Issue Of Alter Ego [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, permitted the Arbitral Tribunal to decide an issue which involved lifting of the corporate veil, noting that the facts of the case did not point towards fraud.The Court was hearing a suit filed by GMR Energy Limited against Dossan Power Systems India Pvt. Ltd. seeking permanent injunction restraining Doosan India from proceeding with arbitration...

New GST Rates Applicable From Today

At the meeting held recently in Guwahati, the GST Council has recommended major relief in GST rates on certain goods and services. These recommendations spread across many sectors and across commodities.As per these recommendations, the list of 28% GST rated goods is recommended to be pruned substantially, from 224 tariff headings [about 18.5% of total tariff headings at 4-digit] to only...

Google Doodle Commemorates Cornelia Sorabji, India's First Woman Advocate

Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Ms. Cornelia Sorabji, India's first female advocate. The doodle marks her 151st anniversary with a picture of her in an Advocate's gown and white band, with the Allahabad High Court building in the background.Ms. Sorabji was one of the nine children born to Reverend Sorabji Karsedji, a Parsi, and his wife, Francina Ford (a Parsi, adopted and raised by...

Cannot Be Exempted From Maintaining Child Even If Other Spouse Earns Sufficiently Well: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently reiterated the  principle that a spouse cannot be exempted from contributing towards maintenance of a minor child even if the other spouse, with whom the child stays, earns sufficiently well."It is a settled principle of law that both the parents have a legal, moral and social duty to provide to their child the best education and standard of living within...

Snatching Isn’t A Trivial Offence; Delhi HC Issues Notice On PIL For Harsher Laws To Curb Menace [Read Petition]

Amidst rising cases of snatching where victims not only lose their articles, but also their lives, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre, the Delhi government and the city police on a PIL highlighting how snatchers in Delhi are booked under trivial penal provisions treating snatching as petty theft.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari...

No Need To Seek Leave For Leading Secondary Evidence, Reiterates Bombay HC; Directs Circulation Of Order [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has reiterated the law set out in the recent case of Kartik Gangadhar Bhat vs Nirmala Namdeo Wagh (as reported earlier), and said under the Evidence Act, there is no provision to seek leave for leading secondary evidence and directed the circulation of the judgment to every ‘civil judge in the State of Maharashtra’.Justice GS Patel passed the judgment in a civil...

PIL For Strict Age-Check Before Sale Of Liquor, Delhi HC Notice To AAP Govt

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government on a PIL praying that checking of age of consumer/ buyer be made mandatory at the point of sale of liquor after a survey revealed that the youth below the age of 25, the legal age of drinking, have easy access to alcohol in the city.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to...