Delhi High Court Upholds GST Notice Based On Income Tax Intelligence; Cautions Dept Against AI-Generated Fake Citations In SCN

The Delhi High Court in a writ petition has upheld Show Cause Notice (SCN) issued by the GST Department which was based on an intelligence, by the Income Tax Department The Division Bench, comprising Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice Shail Jain held the challenge to the SCN as 'premature' and noted existence of a clandestine server that revealed a parallel accounting system and...

From Gender Audit Squads To IC Portals: Madras High Court Notes Sweeping State-Wide Compliance With Its PoSH Directives

The Madras High Court has commended the State of Tamil Nadu for implementing its earlier order to ensure the effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (PoSH Act). Justice RN Manjula observed that the government has shown tremendous interest in ensuring that the court orders are complied with and that the...

Karnataka RERA Directs Ozone Realtors To Refund 1.49 Crore To Homebuyer Due To Delayed Possession

Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority (“Authority”) bench comprising of GR Reddy (Member) directed Ozone Realtors to refund Rs. 1.49 crore to the homebuyer for failing to deliver possession by the promised date in December 2021. Background Facts Homebuyer (Complainant) booked Flat in the builder's (Respondent) project named Ozone Polestar in 2018. They executed an Agreement...

Can't Challenge Notice Issued To Someone Else: Gujarat High Court Rejects Tenant's Plea Against Municipal Notice On Dilapidated Building

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (November 27) rejected a plea challenging a notice issued by the Surat Municipal Corporation asking the owner/occupier of a property to audit the property and produce the structure stability report of the building as the same was in a dilapidated condition requiring urgent repairs. The court noted that since the notice was not issued to the...

'High Threshold For Defamation, Must Prove Malice': Netflix Opposes In Delhi High Court Sameer Wankhede's Plea To Restrain Aryan Khan's Series

Netflix Entertainment on Thursday opposed before the Delhi High Court the defamation suit filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede over his allegedly defamatory portrayal in the Netflix series “Ba***ds of Bollywood” directed by Aryan Khan Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayyar appearing for the OTT platform submitted before Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav that the threshold of defamation in such...

Employees Provident Fund Act | EPFO Cannot Issue Prohibitory Order U/S 8-F Without Prior Notice To Debtor: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court held that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation cannot issue a prohibitory order under Section 8-F of the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, without first issuing a notice to the debtor of the employer and giving an opportunity to file a statement on oath, as mandated under Section 8-F(3)(i) and (vi). The Court observed that the...

Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Actor Ajay Devgn, Orders Take Down Of Obscene Content

The Delhi High Court on Thursday passed an interim order protecting the personality rights of bollywood actor Ajay Devgn.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora restrained the defendants from using the personality traits of the actor, including his images and other personal elements, without his consent.The defendants are also refrained from misusing the actor's personality traits through use...

Call For Submissions: National Essay Writing Competition 2025 By Centre For Human Rights, NUALS In Collaboration With LiveLaw

The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi, is one of India's premier national law universities, known for its research-driven academic culture and its long-standing commitment to advancing constitutional values. Within NUALS, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) works to promote interdisciplinary scholarship, policy engagement, and student-led research on emerging human rights issues in India and beyond.LiveLaw, India's leading legal news and analysis platform, is dedicated...

SARFAESI Notice Counts As Valid Invocation Of Personal Guarantee: NCLT Mumbai

The National Company Law Tribunal at Mumbai has recently held that a notice issued under Section 13(2) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SARFAESI), 2002, which empowers a secured creditor to demand repayment of dues within sixty days prior to enforcing its security, can operate as a valid invocation of a personal guarantee...

Petitions Challenging Special Intensive Revision: Live Updates From Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is hearing the petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls announced by the Election Commisison of India for various States. The bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi is hearing the arguments of the petitioners that the ECI has no power under the Representation of the People Act to conduct the SIR in the...

'Right Or Wrong, Court Order Must Be Obeyed': AP High Court Holds Transport Officials Guilty Of Contempt For Not Releasing Seized Vehicle

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has reiterated that rightness or wrongness of an order cannot be gone into in contempt proceedings. The court further held that if the impugned order is contrary to law, then the contemnor is at liberty to challenge the order by way of a review or appeal.“Rightness or wrongness of the order cannot be urged in contempt proceedings. Right or wrong the order has to...

Long-Pending GST Refund Appeals Hurt Businesses: Delhi High Court To Appellate Body

The Delhi High Court has observed that long pendency of GST appeals seeking tax refund can hurt financial front of businesses.A division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Shail Jain made the observation while dealing the plea of a foreign education consultancy company, whose appeals for tax refund have been pending since four long years.The High Court had recently held that...