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Section 14A Disallowance Not Warranted If No Exempt Income Is Earned: ITAT
The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that the disallowance under Section 14A of the Income Tax Act is not warranted if no exempt income is earned.The two-member bench of Anubhav Sharma (Judicial Member) and Anil Chaturvedi (Accountant Member) has observed that Section 14A envisages that there should be actual receipt of income, and hence Section 14A of the Act...
Assessee Filed ITR of Company Being A Director, But Failed To File Individual ITR; Mumbai Court Upholds Conviction Under S. 276CC of ITA
While upholding the conviction for offence under Section 276CC of the Income Tax Act, 1961, for wilful failure to furnish income tax return, a Mumbai Court has remarked that presumption of a culpable mental state can be derived from the admission of the assessee, who having filed the Income Tax Return of the Company of which he is a director, failed to file his individual Income...
Bombay High Court Lifts Stay On Trial Of Shahid Azmi Murder Case, Dismisses Plea Of Accused For Transfer
Days before the 13th death anniversary of lawyer Advocate Shahid Azmi, the Bombay High Court rejected a plea seeking transfer of his murder trial."I do not find any reason to come to the conclusion that the learned Judge was biased against the applicant. There is no material to apprehend for the applicant that he would not get fair trial before the learned Judge. Hence, no case is made out...
PIL In Kerala High Court Seeks Ban On Circumcisions, Says It Violates Child Rights
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed by Non-Religious Citizens (NRC), a cultural organisation based in Kerala, before the High Court to declare the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision illegal. The Petitioners contend that the practice of circumcision is a ‘cruel’ and ‘unscientific custom’ that children are often victims of, terming it a human right violation. The...
Gujarat High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Disclosure Of Reasons For Withdrawal Of Sanjiv Bhatt’s Security In 2018
The Gujarat High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by former IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Sanjay Bhatt regarding disclosure of reasoning by the State Government for withdrawal of police protection of her husband. While dismissing the petition, the single judge bench of Justice Nirzar S. Desai said the reason behind granting police protection, at the relevant point...
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Inaugurates Monthly Stipend Scheme For Junior Lawyers In Kerala
The monthly stipend scheme mandating payment of Rs. 3000 per month for junior lawyers in Kerala was inaugurated by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday. The scheme promises a monthly stipend of Rs. 3,000 for junior lawyers in the State. Lawyers below 30 years of age with less than three years of practice and an annual income less than Rs. 1 lakh are eligible for the stipend.The event...
No Fetters Can Be Placed On Press Freedom By Registering FIRs Against Journalists Who Report On Information Given By Identifiable Source: JKL High Court
Quashing an FIR against a journalist, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday said that no fetters can be placed on the freedom of press by registering the FIR against journalists, who perform their professional duty by publishing news items on the basis of information obtained by them from an identifiable source. "However, they are also expected to report the coverage...
Exemption Of Newspaper’s Income Utilised For Charity: Supreme Court Remands The Matter To AO
The Supreme Court has remanded the appeal in respect of the exemption of newspaper income used for charity.The division bench of Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice Dipankar Datta has relied on the decision of CIT vs. Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority and remitted the matter to the AO for fresh consideration of the nature of receipts in the hands of the assessee, which is engaged,...
Data Shows Over 7 Lakh Cases Pending Due To Non Availability Of Counsel In Bihar; Patna High Court Calls Figures Alarming, Seeks Verified Data
The Patna High Court on Friday issued a slew of directions while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) dealing with the issue of effective implementation of Chapter XXI-A of the Cr.P.C that pertains to the disposal of the criminal cases through ‘plea bargaining’. The division bench of the Acting Chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh and Justice Partha Sarthy directed the...
24 Years After Forced Eviction By MoD's Badami Bagh Cantonment Board In Kashmir, High Court Awards 10 Lakh Compensation To Allottee
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday awarded Rs 10 Lakh compensation to a person, who was evicted from his shop-cum-residential premise in 1998 by Ministry Of Defence's Badamibagh Cantonment Board without following the due course of law as prescribed under the Public Premises (Eviction of Un-authorized Occupants) Act, 1971The compensation came to be granted by Justice Sanjay...
Judge Recuses Himself From Hearing Jamia Violence Case Citing ‘Personal Reasons’, Days After Discharging Sharjeel Imam, Others
Days after discharging Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and eight others in a 2019 Jamia violence case, the trial court judge has recused himself from hearing a similar case pertaining to the violence citing “personal reasons.”Additional Sessions Judge Arul Varma of Saket Courts has been hearing the cases connected to the violence that occured in 2019 near Jamia Millia...
NCLT Invites Applications For Law Research Associates At Various Benches
The National Company Law Tribunal has issued a notification dated 19.01.2023, inviting applications for the position of Law Research Associate at various benches of NCLT. At present the vacancies are for NCLT Jaipur, Guwahati, Kolkata, Kochi, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Allahabad, Indore, Amravati and Cuttack...