Supreme Court directs Bombay High Court to decide Vodafone Tax Appeal on merits

The Supreme Court of India directed the Bombay High Court to decide the appeal of Vodafone India Service the Indian arm of Vodafone Group Plc on its merits. The High court should take its decision without being influenced by the earlier findings in the case related to Rs 8,500 crore transfer- pricing tax dispute.Senior counsel Harish Salve informed that that the tax tribunal had ruled in...

Dhoni takes Maxx Mobile to Delhi High Court, HC asks Maxx to refrain from selling products showing endorsement of MS Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian cricket team captain and Rhiti Sports, the sports management company of which MS Dhoni is a client approached the Delhi High Court, submitting that Maxx Mobiles was still selling products using Dhoni’s name, in violation of an earlier order passed by the High Court.Justice Murlidhar then asked the counsel for Dhoni and Rhiti Sports to move an...

CIC imposes Highest Penalty on two officers of Directorate of Health Services, CPIO and deemed PIO

CIC M.Sridhar Acharyulu imposed maximum penalty of Rs 25, 000 against two officers of Directorate of Health Services, on 21st Jan 2015, Dr. Lily Gangmei the CPIO for not furnishing complete and proper information to the appellant as directed by FAA in a timely manner and on deemed PIO, Dr R.N. Das the in-charge MS for Nursing Homes for not giving information in time.The Commission, by an...

SC discontinues practice of printing hard copies of judgments and Cause Lists, w.e.f 1st February

The Supreme Court, vide circular dated January 21 has discontinued the practice of printing and rolling out hard copies of judgments by the Editorial Branch of the Registry, with effect from 1st February, 2015.Earlier, 80 copies of the judgments used to be rolled out and printed. This number has been reduced to 14 for civil, 16 for criminal and 18 for a death case.The Judgments will now have...

National Lok Adalat in Supreme Court on February 14, 2015

The Supreme Court of India declared through a notice released today that the National Lok Adalat will be organized on Saturday, February 14, 2015.The LokAdalat will cover cases pertaining to “Matters challenging prosecution under Negotiable Instruments Act, Banks mortgage disputes, Hypothecation, Pledge, Matters relating to recovery of debts/bank loans due under the banks...

Delhi High Court orders unfreezing of foreign funds amounting to 1.87 crore received by Greenpeace India [Read the Order]

The Delhi High Court yesterday unblocked Greenpeace funds that were frozen by the Ministry of Home Affairs in June last year, declaring the act as arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional. The Court observed that the NGOs can't be alleged to be working against public interest, merely because they do not act in consonance to the views of the Government.While allowing the environment activists'...

"We are interested in money coming back and not on disclosure of names” says Supreme Court

Responding to the arguments put forward, that names of persons who have admitted of having illegal accounts in foreign banks be made public, the Bench headed by Chief Justice of India today said, "We are interested in money coming back and not on disclosure of names.”Meanwhile, it was submitted from the side of Petitioner Ram Jethmalani that suggestions made by various parties...

Asaram to stay in jail as Supreme Court rejects Bail plea

After a panel consisting of eight AIIMS doctors in its report stated that Asaram was not needing any surgery and that his treatment was possible through medicines, the Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to self-styled godman Asaram.The Court reportedly said, "We have no reason to reject the opinion of the experts of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)."The three judge...

Law Ministry working on a Bill to rename Madras and Bombay High Court

The Law Ministry has begun work on a Bill to rename the Madras and Bombay High Court, to correspond to the present names of the cities, that is Chennai High Court and Mumbai High Court respectively.The Department of Justice in the Law Ministry has proposed to bring a Bill which would bring the name of these Courts, which were established under the Indian High Court Act, 1861. This Act was an...

Parking situation to ease at Supreme Court as IPTO agrees to give parking space

The India’s Trade Promotion Organization has come to the rescue of lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court by agreeing to provide parking space to accommodate almost 300 vehicles.The issue of parking woes was raised in a public interest litigation filed in 2000 by Indian Council of Legal Aid and Advice. Thereafter, the Court had directed the Delhi government to take required steps. The Court...

Supreme Court grants 6 Months time to Centre for appointing National Regulator for Enforcing Environmental Conditions

On 16th January 2015 the Supreme Court has granted 6 months to the Centre for appointing National Regulator for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approval and imposing penalties on polluters.The three judge bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu and comprising of Justices Arun Kumar Mishra and Adarsh Kumar Goel allowed the of the Ministry of Environment and...

Disclose policy regarding photo-advertisements of politicians at the expenditure of the State: CIC to Government

CIC, Prof. M. Sridhar Acharyulu, has asked the Union and Delhi Governments to disclose their policy regarding photo-advertisements of politicians at the expenditure of the state, in view of its condemnation by Delhi Lokayukta, Professor Madhava Menon Committee and the Supreme Court of India.Responding to a complaint by Mr. Subhash Chandra Agrawal, the CIC required the Chief Secretary of Delhi...