Madras High Court Dismisses Thirumavalavan's Plea To Review Order Granting Permission For RSS Route March

The Madras High Court on Tuesday rejected a review application filed by Thol. Thirumavalavan, leader of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, seeking a review of the September 22nd order passed by the court granting permission to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to conduct their route march.The bench of Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan observed that the petitioner was not a party to the Writ Petitions...

Orissa HC Grants ₹10 Lakhs Compensation To Father Who Lost Son To Injuries Sustained While Playing Cricket In School

The Orissa High Court has ordered Rs. 10 Lakhs compensation to the father of a boy who died in 2011 after receiving injuries while playing cricket in the school premises. While holding the school liable for contributory negligence, a Single Bench of Justice Arindam Sinha held, "Court is convinced there was contributory negligence on part of the school leading to loss of the young...

SCN Without Any Reasons: Delhi High Court Quashes Order Cancelling GST Registration

The Delhi High Court has quashed the order cancelling the GST registration as the Range Inspector has physically verified the premises, neither by serving any notice of the physical verification nor in the report generated after the verification was uploaded on the portal.The division bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju has observed that there was an infraction of...

Article 243Q | Governor's Power To Specify Municipality's Transitional Area Circumscribed By Statutory Stipulations: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has made it clear that the Governor's power under Article 243Q of the Constitution, with respect to specifying transitional area of a Nagar Panchayat, is circumscribed by statutory stipulations.A Division bench of Justices Manoj Kumar Gupta and Rajendra Kumar-IV observed,"The Governor while being invested with power to include or exclude any area in a transitional...

Charges Of Clandestine Removal Cannot Be Confirmed On The Basis Of Private Records Without Corroborative Evidence: CESTAT

The Ahmedabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has held that charges of clandestine removal cannot be confirmed on the basis of private records, the authenticity of which was doubted by the manufacturer without any corroborative evidence.The two-member bench of Ramesh Nair (Judicial Member) and Raju (Technical Member) has observed that the onus to...

Bihar Citizens' Lives At Risk Due To Govt's Failure To Implement Liquor Ban: Patna HC Requests CJ To Take Cognizance Of Issue

In a strongly worded order, the Patna High Court has recently observed that the Bihar State Authorities have failed to implement a complete liquor prohibition in the State and the lives of Bihar citizens have been risked due to the state's failure to effectively implement the ban.With this, the bench of Justice Purnendu Singh directed the HC Registry that its order and the observations therein...

J&K&L High Court CJ Ali Mohammad Magrey Launches App To Enable E-Service Of Notice/ Summons In Srinagar

After assuming the office as the Chief Justice, Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey of the Jammu & Kashmir & Ladakh High Court today paid his maiden visit to District Court Complex Moominabad, Srinagar. On this occasion, the Chief Justice launched an application called National Services and Tracking of Electronic Processes (NSTEP) for Srinagar district, an initiative of e-Committee of...

Karnataka High Court Issues Notice To Lokayukta Police On Plea To Upload FIRs On Website

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued notices on an Advocate's PIL seeking direction to upload the First Information Reports (FIRs) on the website of Police wing of Karnataka Lokayukta, within 24 hours of registration. A division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi issued notices to the State government and the Additional Director General of...

TDS On NRI Payment: Delhi High Court Rejects Appeal By Revenue- Payment Found As Salary, Not Fees

The Delhi High Court, while upholding the order passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), has held that the provision of TDS on NRI payments under Section 195 of the Income Tax Act has no application once the nature of payment is determined as salary and a deduction has been made under Section 192.The division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora has...

PIL In Bombay High Court Seeks CBI, ED Probe Into Ex-Maha CM Uddhav Thackeray's Wealth

A PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI and ED investigation into the wealth of ex-Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, his wife Rashmi and two sons Aditya and Tejas. The criminal PIL is filed by Gouri (38) and Abhay Bhide (78), whose family had briefly printed Shiv Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray's weekly during the emergency. Gouri said she was inspired by the motto...

Authorized Officer Not To Await Expiry Of Appeal Period To Take Over Possession Of Attached Property U/S 8(4) PMLA: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday observed that Section 8(4) of the PMLA Act clearly provides that the authorized officer can forthwith take over possession of the attached property once the order of provisional attachment is confirmed by the Adjudicating Authority. It clarified that the expression "forthwith" used in Section 8(4) of the Act denotes clear intention of...

Close Relative Of Arbitrator Must Be 'Controlling The Company' To Make Him Ineligible: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has clarified that to make an arbitrator ineligible under Clause 9 of the Seventh Schedule read with Section 12(5), the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the arbitrator must have a close family relationship with a party and in case of companies, he must have a close relation with the person(s) in the management who should be...