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Parliament Passes VB G RAM G Bill To Replace MNREGA On Rural Job Guarantee After Midnight Debate
The Parliament passed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025, replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MNREGA).The VG-G Ram Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha yesterday afternoon amidst strong opposition. It was tabled in the Rajya Sabha on the same day, and was passed in the midnight. Opposition...
Patanjali Foods Moves Bombay High Court Against YouTube Channel For Making Defamatory Video, Demands ₹15.5 Crores In Damages
Patanjali Foods has approached the Bombay High Court against popular YouTube Channel 'Trustified Certification' demanding Rs 10.5 crores as damages for loss of reputation and Rs 5 crore as 'special damages' for causing injury to their brand by uploading an allegedly 'defamatory' video against its product 'Nutrela Soya Chunks.'The suit filed through advocate Apoorv Srivastava was listed before...
Auction Purchaser Cannot Be Compelled To Clear Previous Owner's Dues: NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Mumbai has held that an auction purchaser under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code cannot be compelled to clear the previous owner's outstanding dues, in a dispute arising from the transfer of a flat sold during liquidation proceedings.The ruling came on an application filed by AJS Impex Private Limited, the auction purchaser, against the...
NBFC Retains Financial Service Provider Status Despite Lending Ban, Insolvency Only On RBI's Plea: NCLAT
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), New Delhi, has held that a non-banking financial company does not lose its status as a financial service provider merely because the Reserve Bank of India has barred it from fresh lending. As a result, such an entity continues to remain outside creditor-initiated insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.A bench headed...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : December 18, 2025
Links to today's reports :Cheque Dishonour | Supreme Court Doubts Precedent Exempting Convicted Company Directors From S.148 NI Act Deposit; Refers To Larger BenchIf Judicial Order Is Based On Dishonest Or Extraneous Factors, Why Not Take Disciplinary Action Against Judge? Supreme Court'Facilitates Access To Justice' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Formation Of Bombay High...
Contradictions In Sole Eyewitness Testimony Fatal To Prosecution Case, Supreme Court Acquits Four In Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 18) acquitted four persons convicted of murder, holding that discrepancies in the testimony of the sole interested eyewitness rendered it unreliable, and that a conviction could not be sustained solely on such evidence in the absence of corroboration. A Bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi heard a criminal appeal...
UP Bar Council To Suspend Licenses Of 'History-Sheeter' Advocates, High Court Told; SHOs Directed To Certify No Cases Concealed
The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has informed the Allahabad High Court that it has taken a unanimous decision to suspend the licenses of advocates who are listed as history-sheeters or gangsters in the police records. The submission was made before a bench of Justice Vinod Diwakar on December 15 during the hearing of a petition filed by advocate Mohammad Kafeel, who is facing a series...
Commercial Courts Act Bars Intra-Court Appeals In Patent Disputes: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that an intra-court appeal is not maintainable against an order passed by a Single Judge while deciding a statutory patent appeal under the Patents Act. The court reiterated that the Commercial Courts Act does not permit a second appeal within the High Court. “Any expansion of scope of the Commercial Courts Act will defeat its objectives and there is no...
Debenture Trustees Are Financial Service Providers, Insolvency Plea Not Maintainable: NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal at Mumbai has recently reiterated that debenture trustees are Financial Service Providers, and therefore insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are not maintainable against them, dismissing a plea filed against Centbank Financial Services Ltd. A coram of Judicial Member Nilesh Sharma and Technical Member Sameer Kakar, in an order...
