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PUCL Moves High Court Over Rape-Murder Of Trainee Doctor At Kolkata Hospital, Seeks State's Report On Compliance With POSH Norms
The People's Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL) has approached the Calcutta High Court over the incident of the brutal rape and murder of a 2nd year PG Medical student on the RG Kar College and Hospital campus in Kolkata after she had finished her night shift.The petition moved by Advocate Jhuma Sen prays for a court-monitored investigation into the brutal rape and murder and seeks a...
Not Mandatory To File Audit Report Along With Return, Can Be Filed Anytime Before Assessment Completion: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that the assessee was entitled to claim deductions even where the audit report had not been filed with the return but was submitted before the assessment was completed. The bench of Justice Yashwant Varma and Justice Ravinder Dudeja has observed that Section 10B(8) is clearly couched in terms more imperative than Section 80-IA(7). This becomes manifest from a...
Delhi High Court Restores Ad-Hoc Committee Appointed By Indian Olympic Association To Run Affairs Of Wrestling Federation
The Delhi High Court on Friday restored the mandate of the ad-hoc committee appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on December 27 last year for overseeing and taking over all the activities and management of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).The ad-hoc committee was dissolved by IOA on March 18 after the ban on WFI was lifted in February by the United World Wrestling. Justice...
Allahabad High Court Refuses Relief To 6 Muslim Men Accused Of Carrying Tiranga Containing Quranic Verses
The Allahabad High Court recently refused to quash the criminal proceedings initiated against 6 Muslim men who had allegedly carried a Tiranga in their hands in a religious procession, on which Quranic verses (Ayat and Kalma) were inscribed. In a prima facie observation, a bench of Justice Vinod Diwakar said that the applicants' act was punishable under the Flag Code of India, 2002,...
Rajasthan High Court Quashes Income Tax Reassessment As Income Tax Dept. Failed To Hold Proper Investigation
The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court has quashed the income tax reassessment and held that the Income Tax Department had not done any investigation or held an inquiry. There was no other material except the value determined by the A.O. The bench of Justice Avneesh Jhingan and Justice Ashutosh Kumar has observed that the additions were made solely based on the order passed by the...
Appeal Against Endorsement Seeking Production Of Account Books Lies Before Joint Commissioner Of Appeals: Karnataka High Court
The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court has held that the appeal against endorsement seeking production of account books lies before the joint commissioner of appeals.The bench of Justice Jyoti Mulimani has observed that there is an alternative efficacious statutory remedy under Section 62 of the KVAT Act, 2003.The petitioner/assessee is a partnership firm running a bar, restaurant,...
Don't Want To Open Pandoras Box: Madras High Court Junks Plea To Declare Thirukkural As National Book
The Madras High Court recently dismissed a petition seeking to declare Thiru Kural as a “National Book with high values and virtues of India” or the “National Literature of virtue with Ethics of India”. Thirukural, written by Saint Thiruvalluvar, is a Tamil language text containing short couplets that deal with teachings on virtue, wealth, and love among other social and...
MP HC Grants Interim Relief To Private Schools Ordered To Refund Allegedly Excessive Fees Levied In Violation Of 2017 Fee Regulation Rules
In a recent decision, the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur granted an interim stay on orders mandating the refund of school fees collected by private institutions from the academic year 2017-18 onwards. The case involves an appeal by St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School which challenged the orders of the district authorities directing them to refund fees collected in excess of...
Unfair, Tainted Probe: Rajasthan High Court Transfers To CBI Murder Case Of 22Yr Old From "Marginalised Community"
While hearing a murder case involving the bajri (sand) mafia the Rajasthan High Court transferred the matter to CBI after observing that the investigation conducted by the State Police and CID had been so "unfair, tainted and incomplete" that it had "pricked the judicial conscience" of the Court.A single judge bench of Justice Sameer Jain was hearing a plea moved by two men in a case...
Gujarat High Court Issues Show-Cause Notice To Forest Authorities Over Failure To Prevent Asiatic Lion Deaths From Train Collisions
The Gujarat High Court has issued show-cause notice to the State forest authorities for their failure to adhere to court directives aimed at preventing Asiatic lion deaths caused by train collisions near the Gir sanctuary.This was after Amicus curiae advocate Dharmesh Devnani submitted a report detailing two lion deaths due to passenger trains near Amreli.The division bench consisting of...
FIR Lodged On Or After July 1 Would Be Under IPC If Offence Committed Before That Date; Investigation Will Be As Per BNSS: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has observed that in a particular case, if the FIR is lodged on or after July 1, 2024 (the date of commencement of 3 New Criminal Laws), for an offence committed before that date, it would be registered under the provisions of the IPC. Still, the investigation will continue as per Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).The Court also held that in a particular case,...
Section 354A IPC Not Attracted On Alleged Sexual Harassment Of A Woman By Another Woman: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has quashed the proceedings initiated by a woman under Section 354A of the IPC alleging sexual harassment by her sister-in-law and mother-in-law.The sister-in-law (3rd accused) and mother-in-law (4th accused) of the de facto complainant had approached the High Court seeking to quash the offences alleged against them under Sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of...