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Kerala High Court Constitutes District Collector Led Committee To Resolve Issue Of Flooding In Kochi
The Kerala High Court, on Friday, directed the District Collector to convene a committee of all the stakeholders to resolve the issue of flooding in the city of Kochi.Justice Devan Ramachandran expressed his displeasure at the fact that despite various orders being issued by the Court, the City of Kochi was flooded due to heavy rainfall last month and observed that one agency alone "cannot...
Eight Law Students Move High Court Over Delayed Result By GLC Mumbai; Seek State Bar Enrolment, Admission To LLM
Eight students of Government Law College, Mumbai (GLC) affiliated with Mumbai University, have filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court praying for declaration of their final semester results. The petition, filed through Advocate Ajinkya Udane, alleges that the petitioners' results were not declared along with the rest of the students. Another sixty-four students of the...
Covenanted Contractual Levies Cannot Be Undone By Govt Through Any Unilaterally Made Notification: Punjab & Haryana High Court
Punjab and Haryana High Court while dealing with writ petitions challenging a notification recently held that the statutory provisions of the Northern India Canal, and, Drainage Act, 1873 pertain only to occupiers of the apposite land using water for cultivating crops. Hence, it cannot apply to industrial units. In consequence, the covenanted contractual levies, as occur in the...
Breach Of Settlement Agreement Not A Ground To Trigger CIRP: NCLT Delhi Rejects Application For Revival Of Petition
The National Company Law Tribunal ("NCLT"), New Delhi Bench, comprising of Shri Dharminder Singh (Judicial Member) and Shri L.N. Gupta (Technical Member), while adjudicating an application filed in Bajaj Rubber Company Pvt. Ltd. v Saraswati Timber Pvt. Ltd., has declined to revive a petition filed under Section 9 of IBC, which was earlier withdrawn due to Settlement Agreement being...
Kashmir Remark Row: Delhi Court Accepts Media's Apology For Incorrect Reporting Against Kerala MLA KT Jaleel, Advises Caution
Reminding the media of its "onerous duty of responsible reporting", a Delhi Court today accepted the apology tendered by various media persons for incorrect reporting about summoning of Kerala MLA K.T. Jaleel over his remarks made on Kashmir on social media platform Facebook a couple of months ago. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal of Rouse Avenue Courts, who...
Members Contributions To Club Towards Infrastructure, A Capital Receipt: ITAT
The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT)consisting of Aby T. Varkey (Judicial Member) and Gagan Goyal (Accountant Member) has held that the voluntary contributions received from the members of the club towards infrastructure facilities were contributions received for a specific purpose and should be treated as a capital receipt.The assessee submitted that...
Kerala High Court Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Unaffordability Of Patented Life-Saving Medicines Following Death Of Petitioner
The Kerala High Court on Friday took suo moto cognizance of the unaffordability of patented life-saving medicines. Justice V.G. Arun, on being informed of the petitioner's death during the pendency of the proceedings, observed that, "the unfortunate incident should not result in the cause disposed by the petitioner to go in vain."In the plea moved through Advocate Maitreyi Sachidananda Hegde,...
Sikkim Govt Service Rules | Retired Re-Employed Employees Can't Be Denied Leave Encashment Benefits Unless Contractual: High Court
The Sikkim High Court recently observed that retired re-appointed employees cannot be denied the benefit of leave encashment, unless the re-engagement was contractual in nature.Referring to Rule 36 of the Sikkim Government Service (Leave) Rules, 1982, Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan observed:"The respondents' suggestion that there was financial burden upon the state exchequer by providing the...
Fee Payable To Insolvency Professional ; IBBI Notifies Third Amendment To CIRP Regulations
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India ("IBBI") has amended the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 ("CIRP Regulations") for a third time and has notified the amendment on 13.09.2022. The amendment has introduced Clause 34B and Schedule II to the CIRP Regulations which have brought about the following changes: The fee of the...
Employees Can't Withdraw From Voluntary Retirement Scheme After Stipulated Deadline Or Acceptance Of Benefits: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has reiterated the position of law that once the employees have accepted the benefits under Voluntary Retirement Scheme, it is not open for the employees to challenge the scheme.They can also not contend after having withdrawn the amount, that they should be permitted to continue with their employment services, it added. Reiterating this principle, Justice...
"We May Be More Emotional As Women But Shouldn't Be Apologetic, Women Are Made With Steel": Justice Asha Menon Bids Farewell To Delhi High Court
Justice Asha Menon of the Delhi High Court on Friday said that many times women are overwhelmed by an emotional situation which may be difficult to handle but they should not feel apologetic about it. "Many times we are overwhelmed by a situation which is more emotional and very difficult to handle. Probably as a woman we may be more emotional. I don't find we should be apologetic but we are...
