Reliance Jio’s Free Services Not Anti-Competitive: Competition Commission Of India

Fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India on Friday rejected telecom major, Bharti Airtel’s predatory pricing complaint against Reliance Jio and Reliance Industries Limited.“The Commission notes that providing free services cannot by itself raise competition concerns unless the same is offered by a dominant enterprise and shown to be tainted with an anti-competitive objective...

Bombay HC Quashes Appointment Of Govt Pleader With Communal Bias, Doubtful Integrity [Read Judgment]

The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court has quashed and set aside a notification issued by the state government dated July 6, 2016, appointing one Sunil Popatlal Jain as district government pleader and public prosecutor for district Dhule.The said order was passed after a bench of Justice RM Borde and Justice KL Waldane heard a writ petition filed by one Dilip Gangaram Patil.Patil...

Make Efforts To Look Into Issues Raised By Guha & To Make BCCI More Transparent: CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission on Friday urged the Court-appointed Committee of Administrators running the BCCI to “immediately initiate efforts” to look into the issues raised by historian Ramachandra Guha in his resignation letter. Mr. Guha had, in his resignation letter, made sensational claims questioning the stardom and conflict of interest by some members.The Commission was...

Fee Structure For Tamil Nadu Self-Financing Medical Colleges Be Fixed By Puducherry Fee Committee: Madras HC Issues Notice [Read Petition]

A Petition has been filed before the High Court of Madras, demanding a declaration that the fee structure for self-financing medical and dental colleges for Post Graduation courses shall be fixed by the Puducherry Fee Committee. The High Court has issued notice to parties.The Petition, filed by Chennai based lawyer Mr. V.B.R. Menon, brings to the notice of the Court that there are 7...

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Calcutta HC Lawyers Say It’s Too Hot For Them To Work, Extend Summer Vacations By A Week [Read Resolution]

More than 90% of Calcutta High Court’s Bar Association members reportedly took their “extended summer vacation” on Tuesday in view of the “sweltering heat”. The Judges, however, kept their doors open for litigants and lawyers willing to work, taking up all the cases listed in the 20 courts, and passing orders in three.Earlier, in a letter addressed to the Acting Chief Justice...

New MP Advocate General PK Kaurav Resolves For Timely Filing Of Replies

Newly-appointed Madhya Pradesh Advocate General PK Kaurav is all set to work to ensure that there is no delay on part of the state government to file replies towards petitions.His office has requested the high court administration to facilitate electronic transfer of orders directly from the high court to the officer-in-charge of the government department concerned dealing with a particular...

CBDT Notifies New Safe Harbour Regime [Read Notification]

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified a new safe harbour regime based on the report of the Committee set up in this regard, n order to reduce transfer pricing disputes, to provide certainty to taxpayers, to align safe harbour margins with industry standards and to enlarge the scope of safe harbour transactions.The Salient Features of the New Rules  are as follows; It has come...

Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel Appointed As Acting CJ Of Jharkhand HC [Read Notification]

President of India has appointed Shri Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel, the senior-most Judge of Jharkhand High Court as the Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand.His appointment is with effect from 10th June, 2017 consequent upon the retirement present Chief Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty.Read the Notification...

Naroda Patia Riots: Gujarat HC Bench To Visit Scene Of Offence, Warns Media Against Intervention [Read Order]

A Division Bench of the High Court of Gujarat has decided to visit the scene of offence in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case. The Court has however, warned the media against “any intervention”, which it said would amount to interference with judicial proceedings.“Right from the beginning since the matters are being heard, the learned counsel for the respective parties have...

Kerala HC Personally Questions Organ Donor To Ascertain Genuineness Of Offer; Permits Organ Transplant [Read Judgment]

Unconventional methods often need to be adopted to render justice in cases presenting unusual fact situations, especially so when the matter tends to affect the life and existence of a person. The extra-ordinary jurisdiction of the high court under Article 226 is meant to address such complex situations.The intervention made by the High Court of Kerala to facilitate organ transplant to a...

Bombay HC Upholds Vires Of S. 28 A(1) Of Maharashtra Civil Courts Act, 1869 [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court, while deciding a reference submitted by a joint civil judge, Senior Division, Kolhapur, has upheld the vires of Section 28 A(1) of the Maharashtra Civil Courts Act, 1869.The civil judge had opined that Section 28 A(1) of the Act of 1869 is invalid or inoperative in the light of Sections 265, 272, 286 and 295 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925.This opinion was noted...