Layers Of Corporate Subsidiaries Capped To Two To Check Money Laundering, Protect Investors [Read Notification]

Companies can now have only two layers of subsidiaries with the government bringing in new rules effective from September 20 putting restriction on the number of layers for corporates to check money laundering and protect investors.No company, other than banking, non-banking financial company or an insurance firm, can have more than two layers of subsidiaries.The restrictions have been put...

Madras HC Asks Govt To Appoint Law Officers Within 6 Weeks [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has expressed hope that Tamil Nadu Government will make expeditious appointment to vacant posts of law officers to enable speedy disposal of cases, while underlining that such appointments should be made within six weeks.The Madurai bench of Madras High Court comprising Justice KK Sasidharan and GR Swaminathan disposed of a PIL moved by Madurai resident R Rajaselvan...

HC Issues Directions To Delhi, Neighboring States To Check Air Pollution Though Crop Burning [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Friday, issued a slew of directions to the States of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, highlighting the urgency of the need to check air pollution arising out of crop burning.The Court had taken suo motu cognizance of the deteriorating air quality in the Capital and the National Capital Region (NCR). During a recent hearing, the Bench comprising...

DHJS Exam: Delhi HC Tells HC PIO To Share Breakup Of Marks Awarded To Candidates In Interview Round [Read Order]

Marks awarded to candidates in the interview round of the Delhi Higher Judicial Service Examination are not confidential, but public information, the Delhi High Court has said.The same flows from the order of Justice Vibhu Bakhru, who directed the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the Delhi High Court to share with the petitioner the tabulated statement of marks awarded to all candidates in...

Gujarat HC Raps Lower Court For Keeping Juvenile In Police Custody [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court recently rapped a lower Court for sending a juvenile delinquent to jail and treating him as an adult under the law, despite having been apprised of the fact of him being a juvenile.Terming the incident as “unfortunate”, Justice G.R. Udhwani observed, “It is unfortunate that the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Talod was unmindful of the provisions of the...

Sexual Molestation In NCW: CIC Asks Member Secretary To Look Into Commission’s Anti-RTI Attitude [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission has asked Satbir Bedi, member secretary, National Commission for Women, to look into the anti-RTI working in the organisation where a contractual research assistant was allegedly sexually harassed by the NCW deputy secretary and denied information that she had sought after being thrown out of job, leading to further harassment.Information Commissioner M...

Bombay HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To Woman After Holding That FIR Against Her Was An Afterthought

The Bombay High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman booked under Section 3 (x)(xi) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, as it was found that the FIR was registered against her by people against whom she had filed a case of assault five months earlier.A bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Sadhana Jadhav was hearing an anticipatory...

NUSRL Ranchi Students End 9-Day Agitation

The nine-day long dharna staged by the students of National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), Ranchi, has ended, stated a press release issued by the university on Thursday evening.The university informed that Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh of Jharkhand High Court visited the university after the calling off of the agitation and listened to the issues raised by the students. Justice Singh said works were continuing on war footing for the development of the law university since the...

Reliance Jio Vs Other Telcos: Bombay HC Terms CCI Order Illegal, Says Every Majority Decision Is Not ‘Cartelisation’ [Read Order]

In a huge relief to telecom giants, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel Limited, the Bombay High Court quashed and set aside an order of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) which directed a probe into the ‘cartelisation’ charge leveled against them by new market player Reliance Jio.A bench of Justice Anoop Mohta and Justice Bharati Dangre quashed and set aside the...

Relief For Harish Salve As ITAT Says Deferral Of Depreciation Allowance Doesn’t Result In Concealment Of Income [Read Order]

Deferral of depreciation allowance does not result into any concealment of income or furnishing of any inaccurate particulars, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has held while setting aside the penalty imposed on eminent lawyer Harish Salve for alleged concealment of income as it said his tax payments running into crores show his intention to be “tax compliant”.A bench of HS Sidhu...

Jharkhand HC Disposes Of Over 1,250 Bail Pleas In Two Days

The Jharkhand High Court has disposed of over 1,250 bail applications in a special drive during the last two days. Almost all courts here took up bail applications in large numbers and achieved a high disposal rate.Secretary of High Court Bar Association Hemant Shikarwar had approached the HC Acting Chief Justice Justice DN Patel with the request to constitute special benches for bail in view...

MPHC Asks Centre To Frame Recruitment Rules For Bhopal Memorial Hospital [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has asked the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to frame recruitment rules for teaching and non-teaching posts in Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC) by the next date of hearing or else it will be constrained to summon the Secretary of the Ministry.The BMHRC was opened particularly to provide advanced super-specialty care to victims...