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Coparcener's Release Deed Immediately Divests Rights In Joint Family Property; Unregistered Family Settlement Admissible To Prove Severance: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday (November 6) observed that a registered relinquishment deed releasing share of a coparcener in the joint family property, operates immediately regardless of its implementation. “A release by a coparcener for consideration operates immediately to divest his subsisting coparcenary interest; it does not depend for its efficacy on any further act...
Delhi High Court Rejects Lawyer's Plea To Contest Punjab & Haryana Bar Council Elections Citing Pendency Of Disciplinary Proceedings
The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea filed by a lawyer seeking to contest elections of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. Justice Mini Pushkarna found no merit in the plea filed by Advocate Lokinder Singh Phougat and rejected the same. The fresh application was filed in the pending petition filed by Phougat challenging an order passed by the Bar Council of India prohibiting him from...
Filing Written Statement Is Statutory Right, Cannot Be Denied Over Procedural Lapses: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday held that the right to file a written statement is a statutory right and that this right cannot be denied merely for procedural lapses if the filing is otherwise within the time allowed by law. A Single Bench of Justice Aniruddha Roy made the ruling while allowing several defendants in a commercial dispute involving the Central Bank of India to file...
Delhi State Consumer Commission Orders Parsvnath Developers To Refund ₹4 Lakh For Failure To Deliver Flat
The Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, presided over by Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal (President) and Member Bimla Kumari, has directed Parsvnath Developers Ltd. to refund ₹4,00,000 with interest to flat buyers for failing to commence construction and deliver possession of the allotted flat in Parsvnath Palacia, Greater Noida, terming the conduct as deficiency...
Madras High Court Reserves Verdict On TVK's Aadhav Arjuna's Plea To Quash FIR Over Social Media Post Allegedly Inciting Violence
The Madras High Court, on Friday (November 7) reserved its verdict on a plea filed by Aadhav Arjuna, General Secretary of Election Campaign Movement of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) party, seeking to quash an FIR registered against him for his social media post allegedly inciting violence. Justice AD Jagadish Chandira reserved orders after hearing the arguments of...
NCLT Delhi Sanctions Maruti Suzuki's Merger With Suzuki Motor Gujarat
The Principal Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal on Thursday approved the merger of Maruti Suzuki India Limited with its wholly owned subsidiary, Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited. The coram, comprising President Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar and Technical Member Ravindra Chaturvedi, noted that there was no impediment to approving the scheme, given the positions taken by the...
Delhi High Court Orders Enquiry Against Judges For Allegedly Attempting To Influence Woman Lawyer To Drop Rape Case
The Delhi High Court has ordered administrative inquiry action against two judicial officers of the national capital for their alleged role in influencing a young lawyer for influencing and coercing her to retract her allegations in a rape case filed against a lawyer. “Before delving into the same, this Court considers it apposite to mention that it is conscious that considering the...
Lucknow Court Acquits Samajwadi Party Leader Azam Khan In RSS-BJP Defamation Case
A Magistrate Court in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow district on Friday acquitted senior Samajwadi Party leader and former MP Azam Khan in a case related to the alleged misuse of a government letterhead and stamp to malign the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division)/ACJM Alok Verma granted relief to Khan, observing that...
Advances Made By Shareholder After Lapse Of Shareholders Agreement Amount To 'Financial Debt': NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai Bench, has admitted a Section 7 application filed by Euro Corporate Services Pvt. Ltd. against Royal Fantasy Constructions Pvt. Ltd. The bench comprising Judicial Member Sushil Mahadeorao Kochey and Member Technical Prabhat Singh has ruled that the advances made by the shareholder after the expiration of the shareholder agreement amount...
Supreme Court Constitutes Committee Headed By Former Allahabad HC Judge To Resolve 20-Year Old Stalled Housing Project In Greater Noida
The Supreme Court has directed the constitution of a one-member committee headed by Justice Pankaj Naqvi (Retd.), former Judge of the Allahabad High Court, to conduct an independent inquiry into the long-pending housing dispute involving the Shiv Kala Charms Project in Greater Noida. The case, pending for nearly two decades, involves hundreds of defrauded homebuyers who had invested in...