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Income Tax | Foreign Companies' Head Office Expenses For Indian Business Subject To Deduction Limit Under S. 44C : Supreme Court
In a set-back to foreign companies doing business operations in India, the Supreme Court on Monday (December 15) held that all head office expenditure incurred by them outside India, whether common or exclusively for their Indian business operations, must be subjected to the statutory ceiling prescribed under Section 44C of the Income Tax Act, 1961, thereby ruling out any claim for...
GST | Allahabad High Court Grants Stay On Composite Show Cause Notice For Multiple Assessment Years
Recently, the Allahabad High Court has granted stay on composite show cause notice issued by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence where multiple assessment years have been clubbed in one show cause notice. Petitioner approached the High Court against a single show cause notice issued by the Additional Director, Directorate General of GST Intelligence, Ghaziabad for tax...
PIL In Supreme Court Seeks Action Against Persons Spreading Defamatory Remarks Against Justice GR Swaminathan
A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking actions against the protestors who allegedly spread defamatory remarks against Justice G.R. Swaminathan, Judge of the Madras High Court, subsequent to his order to light the Karthigai Deepam on the Deepa Thoon (lamp pillar) at the Thiruparankundram Subramaniya Swamy Hill Temple, Madurai.The PIL has been filed by...
NCLT Delhi Approves Flipkart's Plan To Merge Singapore Holding Entities Into Indian Arm
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Delhi has approved a major restructuring of Walmart owned e-commerce platform Flipkart, clearing the way for the group to merge its Singapore holding entities into its Indian company and effectively consolidate its corporate domicile in India. A coram comprising Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar and Technical Member Ravindra Chaturvedi, on December 12,...
Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: December 08 To December 14, 2025
Citations 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1682 to 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1710NOMINAL INDEXPrincipal Commissioner of Income Tax, Delhi-I Vs. M/S Avery Dennison (India) Pvt. Ltd. 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1682 M/s Sunlight Project Pvt. Ltd. v. Delhi Development Authority 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1683 Shambhu Nath Rai v. Union Of India & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 1684 SURENDAR KUMAR v. BAR COUNCIL OF DELHI & ANR...
Minority Community Facing Difficulty In Enjoying Their Land: Dargah Tells Madras High Court Over Thiruparankundram Deepam Row
The Hazarath Sultan Sikkandar Badhusha Avuliya Dargah, challenging a single judge's order directing lighting of the lamp at the stone pillar in Thiruparakundram Hills, told the Madras High Court (Madurai bench) on Monday (December 15) that the minority community was facing difficulty in enjoying their land given to them in 1920. A division bench of Justice G Jayachandran and Justice...
Law Must Bend Toward Inclusion: P&H High Court Directs Retrospective Promotion With Benefits To Visually Impaired Forest Employee
Emphasising that the right to be free from disability-based discrimination, as enshrined in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, must be regarded with the same seriousness and protection as a fundamental right—ensuring that no employee is excluded from consideration solely on the basis of disability—the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the Haryana Government to...
NCLAT Rejects Ex-Director's Plea for Resolution Plans in Aviom Housing Finance Insolvency
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) at Delhi has refused a suspended director of Aviom India Housing Finance Pvt. Ltd. access to resolution plans submitted during the company's insolvency process. The tribunal reiterated that once the board of a financial service provider is superseded by the Reserve Bank of India, former directors have no right to participate in the CIRP or...
Price-Fixing Circulars: CCI Holds Three Maharashtra Liquor Associations Guilty Of Cartelisation
The Competition Commission of India CCI) has held that three liquor merchants' associations operating in Maharashtra engaged in anti-competitive practices by issuing circulars prescribing prices, margins and other commercial terms, illegally distorting competition in the liquor retail market. In an order dated December 11, 2025, a coram led by Chairperson Ravneet Kaur, along with Members...
Service Tax | Tax Paid Under Wrong Service Category Cannot Be Demanded Again: CESTAT Mumbai
The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has set aside a service tax demand raised against the assesse, holding that once service tax has already been paid under the Reverse Charge Mechanism, merely under a wrong service category, the department cannot demand the same tax again.A Bench comprising Dr. Suvendu Kumar Pati (Judicial Member)...
Banke Bihari Temple : Supreme Court Issues Notice To High-Powered Committee On Plea Challenging Change Of Darshan Timings
The Supreme Court today sought a response from the State of UP and the Court-constituted High Powered Committee on a plea challenging the changed temple darshan timings and discontinuation of Dehri Pooja at the Bankey Bihari Ji Maharaj Temple, Mathura. The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi was hearing the writ petition filed by the Management Committee...