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Madras High Court Orders New PAN For Assessee After Dept-Issued Duplicate PAN Ruins CIBIL Score
The Madras High Court has directed the department to issue a fresh PAN (Permanent Account Number) to the assessee, who suffered adverse consequences because the defaulter holding the same PAN had a bad CIBIL. The bench held that the assessee cannot be made to bear serious CIBIL consequences arising from the Income Tax Department's duplicate PAN allotment. Justice C. Saravanan stated...
The Regulatory Gridlock: Jurisdictional Overlaps Between CCI And Sectoral Authorities
Competition Commission of India (CCI) serves as the Competition watchdog by ensuring free and fair competition across various sectors. Its functions encompass ensuring freedom of trade, preventing market failures, prohibiting anti-competitive practices and preserving consumer interests.[1] The CCI is not a sector-based body and enjoys a broad range of jurisdiction which cut across sectoral boundaries and thus covers all the industries with the primary focus on the objects behind the Competition...
Gujarat High Court Issues Notice On Asaram's Plea To Relax Condition Enforcing Police Surveillance During Suspended Sentence
The Gujarat High Court issued notice on Asaram's plea seeking modification/deletion of condition requiring presence of three police officials in his vicinity, during the 6-month period wherein his life sentence has been suspended in a rape case. For context, on November 6 the high court had granted six-month suspension of sentence to Asaram who is convicted in a 2013 rape case by a sessions...
Voluntary Retirement Deemed Accepted If Not Rejected Within Stipulated Period; Subsequent Demand For Technical Resignation Invalid: Delhi HC
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that voluntary retirement is deemed automatically accepted if not expressly rejected within the stipulated period, and any subsequent demand for technical resignation cannot override a retirement that has already taken effect. Background Facts The employee was working as...
'97 Laws Have Provisions Discriminatory Towards Leprosy-Affected Persons': NHRC Tells Supreme Court; Gives Recommendations
The National Human Rights Commission recently informed the Supreme Court that there are 97 existing laws at the Central/State level which contain provisions discriminatory towards leprosy-affected persons.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was dealing with a PIL initiated in 2010, where it had directed the States to form a Committee to identify provisions in various laws,...
S.144 BNSS | Wife Not Disentitled To Claim Maintenance From Husband If Income From Her Temporary Job Insufficient: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court recently clarified that a wife would not be disentitled from claiming maintenance from her husband under Section 125 CrPC/ Section 144 BNSS even if she has a temporary job providing her some income, if she asserts that such income is insufficient.Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath was considering petitions filed by a wife against her husband challenging the quantum of...
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys Advises Inox Neo Energies On Acquisition Of 640 MW Wind-Solar Hybrid Portfolio From Evergreen Group
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys (LKS) has advised Inox Neo Energies Limited (“Inox”), an independent power producer of the InoxGFL Group and a subsidiary of Inox Clean Energy Limited, in its acquisition of a 640 MW AC wind-solar hybrid portfolio from the Evergreen Group, a global renewable energy developer.Evergreen Group has a strong presence in the renewable sector with projects across the USA, Mauritius and India.The transaction involved the acquisition of five hybrid wind-solar...
Delhi High Court Restrains Cosmetic Company From Copying Visage Beauty's O3+ Facial Kits Packaging And Mark
In a clash over look-alike facial kits, the Delhi High Court has granted Visage Beauty an interim injunction restraining Freecia Professional India from copying its packaging layout, usage instructions, ingredients text and from using the trademark 'DERMOMELAN'. A single bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the order on November 21 while hearing Visage Beauty & Healthcare...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : November 24, 2025
Links to today's reports : Justice Surya Kant Takes Oath As 53rd Chief Justice Of India'How Can Drunken-Driving Accused Go Scot-Free?' Supreme Court Questions UP Law Abating Trials Pending For MV Act Violations Till 2021'Seems Tax Department Has Not Trusted Even Its Lawyers' : Supreme Court Flags Procedural Delays In IT Dept's Petition FilingsPresident Nominates Justice Vikram Nath As...
Allahabad High Court Upholds Man's Conviction For Strangling Minor Daughter, Says Charges Proven Despite Mother Turning Hostile
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) today upheld the conviction and life imprisonment of a man for the murder of his 17-year-old daughter, who he suspected of having a relationship with a boy from the same locality. A bench of Justice Rajnish Kumar and Justice Rajeev Singh noted that despite the mother of the victim turning hostile during the trial, the chain...