ITC Can't Be Availed By Housing Society On Works Contract Services Of Repairs, Renovations, Rehabilitation: AAAR

The Maharashtra Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling (AAAR) has ruled that the housing society is ineligible to claim input tax credit (ITC) on contract services received from their appointed contractor due to the housing society's ineligibility to claim ITC on repairs, renovations, and rehabilitation works.The two-member bench of Ashok Kumar Mehta and Rajeev Kumar Mital has observed that...

Gurugram Consumer Forum Directs Municipal Corporation To Allow Maximum One Pet Dog For One Family, Bans 11 Foreign Breeds

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission at Gurugram on Tuesday directed the Municipal Corporation to require that one family will keep only one dog. It further banned petting of 11 "foreign breeds" and asked the Corporation to cancel the registration granted in respect of any such banned dogs and take them into its custody.While issuing general directions in a dog-bite...

M-seal vs R-seal: Bombay High Court Grants Interim Relief To Pidilite In Trademark Infringement Suit

Granting interim relief to Pidilite Industries Limited, the Bombay High Court has restrained Riya Chemy from using the mark 'R-Seal' or any other mark similar to Pidilite's 'M-Seal' mark, in a trademark and copyright infringement suit. Justice R. I. Chagla held that prima facie, the defendant secured the registration of the mark 'R-Seal' fraudulently by concealing the existence of...

NI Act | Complainant Can't Seek To Prosecute Company's Former Directors For Cheque Issued To Repay Amount Invested When They Held Office: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has quashed the proceedings initiated against two former directors of a company under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act by the complainant claiming that when he invested the money in the company they were directors. A single judge bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar allowed the petition filed by Sunita and Vidya and quashed the proceedings...

'Drug Menace Affecting Entire Society': Karnataka High Court Denies Bail To Medical Shop Owner In NDPS Case

The Karnataka High Court has rejected the bail petition filed by one Thaha Ummer, a resident of Kerala, who was arrested on August 25 for allegedly exporting banned Clonazepam Tablets. Ummer has been booked under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) by the Narcotic Control Bureau. A single judge bench of Justice Rajendra Badamikar while rejecting the bail...

Kottayam Shelter Homes Missing Girls Cases | NHRC Takes Suo Motu Cognisance, Kerala Gov Asked To File Action Taken Report

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken a suo moto cognizance of the media reports pertaining to the case of 9 girls who recently went missing from a shelter home at Manganam in Kottayam, Kerala. Though the girls were later on traced at the residence of one of the inmates by the Kerala police, however, the girls resisted their return back to the shelter home. This is 3rd...

Plea In Varanasi Court Prays For Transfer Of Suit Seeking Possession Of Gyanvapi Mosque Premises From FTC To District Judge

An application has been moved before the District Judge, Varanasi to transfer a suit, seeking handing over of the possession of the Gyanvapi Mosque premises to 'Lord Adi Vishweshwar Virajman', pending before the FTC/Civil Judge (Senior Division), to the Court of District Judge, which is presently hearing another suit of a similar nature.The transfer application has been moved under Section 24...

Madras HC Permits Online Gaming Companies To Withdraw Petitions Against TN Ordinance Which Is Yet To Come Into Force

The All India Gaming Federation and other online gaming companies on Wednesday withdrew all petitions challenging Tamil Nadu government's ordinance for Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games, after State informed that it is yet to be notified.The bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice D Krishnakumar also gave liberty to the petitioners to file fresh petitions...

Practice Of Duping Innocent People On Pretext Of Sending Them Abroad 'Rampant': Punjab And Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that the practice of duping innocent people on the pretext of sending them abroad is rampant and the same is required to be curbed with an iron hand to save such innocent people.The bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Verma observed thus while hearing an anticipatory bail plea filed by a woman who has been booked for cheating and criminal conspiracy...

J&K&L High Court Keeps In Abeyance FFRC Order Restraining Private Schools From Charging Annual Fee From Nov 2022 Till March 2023

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday stayed an order of Committee for Fixation and Regulation of Fee of Private Schools, J&K, Srinagar (FFRC) in terms of which it had restrained all the school managements of the private schools from charging and collecting annual fee for the period of November 2022 to March, 2023. "The impugned order dated 2nd of November,...

Karnataka High Court Grants Pre-Arrest Bail To Govt Hospital Nurse Accused Of Facilitating Infant's Sale

The Karnataka High Court recently granted anticipatory bail to a government hospital nurse accused of mediating the sale of a new born baby-girl, after the infant's mother expressed undesirability to raise her on account of financial hardship.A single judge bench of Justice Shivashankar Amarannavar sitting at Dharwad observed that there is no specific averment in the complaint that...

"Mentioning Citations In Pleadings Sufficient": Madhya Pradesh HC Requests Bar To Avoid Unnecessarily Filing Judgment Photocopies With Petitions

Explaining the financial burden of filing unnecessary documents with petitions/applications on litigants and its Registry, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench requested the members of the Bar to avoid filing judgments that could be relied upon by them at the time of arguments by providing citations to the bench. The division bench comprising Justices Vivek Rusia and...