DGFT Allows Personal Carriage Of Gems & Jewellery Parcels Through Ahmedabad Airport Under FTP 2023

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, has amended Paragraphs 4.87(a) and 4.88 of the Handbook of Procedures (HBP) 2023 under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023. The amendment now allows import and export of gems and jewellery parcels for personal carriage through Ahmedabad Airport, in addition to the previously listed international airports such...

Police Must Show Arrest & Remand Of Accused In All Connected Cases: Telangana High Court Grants Doctor Bail In Surrogacy-Fraud FIRs

Granting bail to a doctor booked for surrogacy-related offences, the Telangana High Court said that once an accused is in judicial custody in the first case, then it is necessary for the investigating authorities to show the arrest and remand of the accused in all connected cases, from the respective dates of registration of FIRs.The petitioner contended that she was implicated in several...

Himachal Pradesh High Court Weekly Round-Up: November 24, 2025 To November 30, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (HP) 240 to 2025 LiveLaw (HP) 245 Nominal Index: Shrinjana Buddha v/s State of Himachal Pradesh.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 240 Lalita Devi v/s State of H.P. & Ors.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 241 UCO Bank and another v/s Smt. Manjana Verma Sahni and another.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 242 Madhu Joshi and another v/s Rajesh Kumar alias Sonu and others.,2025 LiveLaw...

NCLT Mumbai Upholds IL&FS' Power To Raise Price of Its BKC Headquartes, Rejects Chronos' Plea To Enforce ₹1,080-Crore LoI

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Mumbai has recently held that IL&FS was contractually empowered to unilaterally amend the Letter of Intent and increase the bid consideration for the sale of its iconic IL&FS Financial Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai refusing to compel execution of the definitive agreement at the originally approved value of Rs 1,080 crore. The...

Delhi High Court Imposes Costs On Party For Misrepresenting New Gold Jewellery As 'Old'; Orders Release Subject To Payment Of Duty

The Delhi High Court has imposed costs on two Petitioners who falsely claimed that their old gold jewellery was seized by the Customs Department upon their arrival from Dubai.On production of the gold items before it, a division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Renu Bhatnagar observed,“it is clear that the gold items are not used gold jewellery of the Petitioners, and the same...

'Utter Mockery': Allahabad High Court Pulls Up DGP Over Man Missing From Police Custody Since 2018; Says 'If Eliminated, SP Can't Be Spared'

In a scathing indictment of the Uttar Pradesh Police, the Allahabad High Court has termed the disappearance of a man from police custody since 2018 as nothing short of an "utter mockery" of the justice system. A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Sanjiv Kumar issued a stern warning to the state DGP saying that if the detenue/corpus has been 'eliminated', the responsibility...

RERA Authorities Cannot Decide Title Disputes Or Issue Declarations and Injunctions Like Civil Court : Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has recently held that authorities and tribunals under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA) cannot adjudicate title disputes between allottees or grant declaratory and injunctive reliefs, ruling that such powers lie exclusively with civil courts. Clarifying the limits of RERA jurisdiction, the court held that disputes concerning the validity...

No Construction Allowed On Water Body: Gujarat High Court Rejects Appeal Against Eviction Notice Over Encroachment Of Lake

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (December 2) dismissed an appeal challenging a single judge's order which had rejection a plea against eviction notices issued to certain residents asking them to vacate a property over encroachment of Isanpur lake in Ahmedabad. The court noted that the notice issued by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) categorically recorded that the appellants...

'Remarkable Coincidence': Supreme Court On Data Regarding Public Contracts Awarded To Arunachal CM's Relatives

In a plea seeking CBI probe into work contracts awarded to Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu and/or his relatives' companies, the Supreme Court today expressed that the difference between the competing tenders for the works appeared to be miniscule and hinted at cartelization.The Court clarified that there was no inclination to order a CBI enquiry as on date and it would first like the State...

'Just & Fair Request': Supreme Court Asks ECI To Consider Further Extending Kerala SIR Deadline

The Supreme Court on Tuesday recommended to the Election Commission of India to further extend the deadline for the submission of enumeration forms in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the electoral rolls in Kerala, in view of the ongoing process for local body elections.The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was informed by the Election Commission of India that...

Extended Limitation Cannot Be Invoked Without Proof Of Intent To Evade: CESTAT Delhi Sets Aside Service Tax Demand On Car Parking Charges

The Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Principal Bench, New Delhi has held that the extended period of limitation under the proviso to Section 73(1) of the Finance Act, 1994 cannot be invoked in the absence of clear evidence of suppression of facts with intent to evade service tax. A Division Bench comprising Justice Dilip Gupta (President) and P.V. Subba...

'Behind Every File Lies A Person': Consumer Commission Raps MEDISEP, Insurer For Wrongful Claim Repudiation, Orders Reimbursement

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Ernakulam recently directed the insurance company and Medisep to jointly compensate a man whose claim for reimbursement of hospital expenses was repudiated.The Bench comprising D.B. Binu (President), V. Ramachandran and Sreevidhia T.N. was considering a complaint preferred by a man covered under the MEDISEP Health Insurance Scheme introduced...