Active PAN In Name Of Amalgamating Company, Would Not Justify Reassessment Proceedings Against It: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has reiterated that once the revenue department is aware about the amalgamation and had knowledge regarding the non-existence of the amalgamating entity, an assessment order passed against such amalgamating entity would be void and not merely a procedural defect. The bench of Justices Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Kamal Khata remarked that merely because the PAN in...

Court Orders Registration Of FIR Against Delhi Police Cop For Allegedly Assaulting Street Dog With Lathi, Picks Holes In Official Inquiry

Picking holes in the official inquiry conducted by Delhi Police in a case of animal cruelty, a Delhi Court has ordered registration of FIR against a police officer for allegedly assaulting a street dog with lathi while performing patrolling duty in Jafrabad. Metropolitan Magistrate Bharat Aggarwal of Karkardooma Courts observed that the facts disclosed by the complainants and documents on...

Execution Proceedings Cannot Be Stayed If Challenge To Decree & Execution Not Before Same Court: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said that a court can exercise powers under Order 21 Rule 29 of the Code of Civil Procedure and pass order of staying the execution proceedings only if the suit challenging the decree and execution proceedings referred are pending before the same court and not before two different courts which are not of coordinate jurisdiction.A single judge bench of Justice S...

Kathua Rape Case: Delhi High Court Directs Registrar General To Transfer Fine Paid By News Organisations To J&K Legal Service Authority

The Delhi High Court has directed its Registrar General to deposit the amount paid by news organisations as fine for disclosing the Kathua rape victim's name, with the Victim Compensation Fund maintained by Jammu & Kashmir State Legal Services Authority for disbursement of the same to the victims or family of deceased victims of sexual violence.The high court in 2018 had taken suo motu...

Abdullah Azam Loses UP Legislative Assembly Membership After Moradabad Court Convicts Him In a 15-Year-Old Case

The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday declared the seat represented by Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Abdullah Azam Khan as ‘Vacant’ two days after Abdullah was convicted in a 15-year-old case by the Moradabad Court to two years in prison. Abdullah, who represented the Suar Assembly constituency, is the son of the veteran leader of the Samajwadi Party,...

Railway Can’t Charge Waitlist Passenger, Rule To 'Usurp' Fare If Ticket Not Cancelled 30 Mins Before Departure Bad: Chandigarh Consumer Commission

The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission at Chandigarh recently frowned upon Railways' policy to not refund the fare paid by a waitlist passenger, who could not undertake the journey due to non-confirmation of his ticket and failed to cancel it within stipulated 30 minutes period before train departure.Upholding the order passed by the District Consumer Disputes Commission grating...

Repeated Use Of Derogatory, Humiliating Words By Wife Against Husband, His Family Amounts To Cruelty: Delhi High Court Upholds Dissolution Of Marriage

While upholding dissolution of a couple’s marriage on the ground of cruelty, the Delhi High Court has observed that repeated use of derogatory and humiliating words by the wife against husband and his family amounts to cruelty.The court said every person is entitled to live with dignity and honour, and no one can be expected to live with constant abuse being hurled upon him.A division bench...

Liquidator Has No Jurisdiction To Reject/Modify Already Admitted Claims, Can Approach AA For Modification: NCLAT Delhi

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”), New Delhi Bench, comprising of Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain (Judicial Member) and Mr. Naresh Salecha (Technical Member), while adjudicating an appeal filed in Vijay Kumar Gupta v Canara Bank, has held that the Liquidator has no jurisdiction to reject or modify already admitted claims, if he receives any additional information....

Kantara Plagiarism Row: Kerala High Court Stays FIR Against Actor Prithviraj Sukumaran

The Kerala High Court on Thursday stayed the FIR filed against Actor Prithviraj Sukumaran by Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd in connection with the alleged copyright infringement of the song "Varaharoopam" from Kannada movie “Kantara”.The court observed that as a mere distributor of the film in Kerala, the actor was “unnecessarily being dragged into” and that...

Madras High Court Asks State To Continue Monitoring Movie Ticket Prices

The Madras High Court has directed the State government to continue its measures to monitor the amount of fees charged by way of movie tickets in cinema theatres . Justice Anita Sumanth was dealing with three writ petitions which had been filed seeking action against theatre owners for charging more than the actual ticket rate fixed by the government for three movies- Kabali, Singam...

Gauhati High Court Directs CIT (TDS) To Refund Income Tax Deducted From Salary Of Scheduled Tribe Officer Expeditiously

The Gauhati High Court has directed the Commissioner of Income Tax (TDS) to expeditiously process the request for a refund of income tax deducted from the salary of the DIG (Ops) of the Border Security Force, who is a member of the scheduled tribe.The single bench of Justice Soumitra Saikia has observed that the phrase "residing in any area specified" under Section 10 (26) cannot be...

Payroll Services By IBM Philippines Not FTS, TDS Not Liable To Be Deducted: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court, while dismissing the appeal of the department, held that payroll services by IBM Philippines are not fees for technical services (FTS), and the TDS is not liable to be deducted.The division bench of Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar and Justice T.G. Shivashankare Gowda has observed that the work has been outsourced to IBM Philippines. IBM Philippines was carrying out the...