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What Is The Scope Of Limitation In Suit For Specific Performance Where No Time Was Mentioned For Execution Of Sale Deed? MP High Court Answers
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently held that the limitation period in a suit for specific relief with respect to a sale deed, where no time was mentioned for its execution, would commence from the date it comes to the notice of the Plaintiff that specific performance is being refused to them by the Defendant. After perusing the jurisprudence laid down by the Apex Court in...
High Court Seeks Delhi Police's Stand On PIL Alleging Non-Invocation Of IT Act In Cyber Crime Cases
The Delhi High Court has asked Delhi Police to respond to a public interest litigation which alleges that its officials fail to invoke provisions of Information Technology Act, 2000 while registering cases related to cyber crimes.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad was hearing a PIL moved by Ananya Kumar, a Ph.D. scholar doing research on...
Delhi High Court Grants Bail To CA In Money Laundering Case Against Shakti Bhog
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to the Auditor of M/s Shakti Bhog Foods Ltd in the money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against the company. The ED had opposed the bail application, alleging that the company’s Internal Auditor Raman Bhuraria was the mastermind of the whole operation. Observing that no satisfactory explanation has been given by the...
Delhi High Court Disposes Of Plea By Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita Seeking E-Mulaqat, Other Facilities For Tihar Jail Inmates
The Delhi High Court on Thursday disposed of Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita's plea seeking various facilities of prisoners in Tihar jail. Narwal and Kalita are accused in the larger conspiracy case of the 2020 North-East riots.Both Narwal and Kalita moved the plea in 2020 in wake of the restrictions imposed on account of COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting multiple issues faced by...
Delhi LG’s Reference To President On Removal From Post Of DDCD Vice Chairperson Not As Per Law: Jasmine Shah To High Court
Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDCD) Vice Chairperson Jasmine Shah on Thursday told Delhi High Court that reference made by Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena to the President of India regarding the issue of his removal from the post was not as per law. Justice Prathiba M Singh was hearing Shah’s plea against LG's decision asking Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to remove...
Karnataka High Court Dismisses PIL Challenging Isha Yoga Centre's Construction Activities Near Nandi Hills
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation which alleged that construction of Isha Yoga Centre is allegedly causing environmental degradation and defacing entire ecosystem in the Foothills of Nandi Hills and Narasimha Devaru Range (Betta) NDB. The plea had alleged that permission have been granted by the authorities in utter violation of environmental...
Illegal Hoardings: Karnataka HC Directs BBMP, Bangalore Development Authority To Initiate Action Against Erring Officers
The Karnataka High Court has called for a comprehensive report from the State government, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Bangalore Development Authority on the action taken to prevent putting up of alleged illegal hoardings and flexes across Bangalore city. A division bench of Chief Justice Prasana B Varale and Justice Ashok S Kinagi has called for the report to be submitted...
'Will Benefit Large Sections Of Population': Bombay HC Permits Felling 350 Mangrove Trees For Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway
The Bombay High Court recently allowed felling of mangrove trees within the construction zone of the Vadodara Mumbai expressway observing that the proposed expressway will benefit large sections of the population.A division bench of acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep V Marne held –“Its (Bharatmala Pariyojana) an ambitious and mammoth project of Government of India,...
Unmarried Daughter’s Jewllery And Mother’s Jewellery Can Be Kept In Family Home: ITAT Deletes Addition
The Allahabad Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has deleted the addition as the jewellery belonging to unmarried daughters will be kept along with the assessee’s jewellery in a family home where they are living together.The two-member bench of Vijay Pal Rao (Judicial Member) and Ramit Kochar (Accountant Member) has observed that the assessee has discharged her primary burden by...
Pendency Of NIA Cases In Designated Special Courts: Delhi High Court Seeks MHA’s Response
The Delhi High Court has sought response of Ministry of Home Affairs on a plea highlighting the pendency of cases registered under National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act in two designated special courts of the national capital.At present, the NIA cases in Patiala House Courts are being heard by two special courts i.e. Principal District and Sessions Judge and an Additional Sessions Judge...
Arbitral Tribunal Not Justified In Dismissing Claim Petition For Not Being Verified As Per CPC: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has ruled that failure to abide by the procedural laws would not be fatal to the arbitral proceedings and thus, the Arbitral Tribunal was not justified in dismissing the claim petition/ statement of claims solely on the ground that it was not verified as contemplated under Order VI Rule 15 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC). The bench of...