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Society Supplying Free Textbooks To Students Is Not "State Government": Karnataka AAR
The Karnataka Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that a society registered under the Karnataka Societies Act, 1960 and receiving grants from the Government of Karnataka for the supply of free textbooks to students cannot be considered as "State Government".The two-member bench of M.P. Ravi Prasad and T. Kiran Reddy has observed that the rate of tax being charged by the printers...
Failure Of Assessee To Explain Identity And Creditworthiness Of Creditors And Genuineness Of Transaction: ITAT Sustains Addition
The Allahabad Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has sustained the addition as the assessee failed to explain the identity and creditworthiness of the creditors and the genuineness of the transaction.The two-member bench of Vijay Pal Rao (Judicial Member) and Ramit Kochar (Accountant Member) has observed that fresh deposits being advanced for land from members raised by...
Licensing Authority Cannot Discriminate Between Co-Accused Persons In Renewal Of Their Arms Licenses: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has held that a licensing authority under the Arms Act cannot discriminate between two persons, who were co-accused in the same matter, by renewing the license of one of them and refusing the same treatment to the other citing criminal antecedents.Justice AS Supehia held so while deciding the case of a Petitioner whose renewal application under the Act was declined...
Bombay High Court Directs WFI To Decide Plea Against Dissolution Of Sharad Pawar-Led Committee Of State Wrestling Association
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra State Wrestling Association (MSWA) to appeal against the "sudden dissolution" of its elected executive committee led by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, before the Wrestling Federation of India within 10 days.A division bench of Justices SV Gangapurwala and Madhav Jamdar further directed the president of WFI to decide the appeal...
KSRTC Workers' Woes : Kerala High Court Directs State To Release Amounts Required To Pay Salaries Of July & August Before Sep 1
The Kerala High Court, on Wednesday, in the plea moved by the KSRTC employees alleging that they were not being paid salary promptly has directed the competent authority to release the requisite amount required to the KSRTC to pay the salaries for the months of July and August along with the bonus eligible to all the employees below the managerial cadre on or before the 1st September....
Jurisdiction Of Second Appellate Authority Confined To Issue Of Limitation Where First Appeal Is Dismissed Citing Delay: MP High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench recently held that if the first appeal is dismissed by the first appellate authority solely upon rejection of the application for condonation of delay in filing the same, the jurisdiction of the second appellate authority would be confined to determining if the delay in filing the appeal before the first appellate authority should have...
Karnataka High Court Quashes POCSO Case After Prosecutrix Admits Consensual Relationship, Marries Accused On Attaining Majority
The Karnataka High Court has quashed a rape complaint registered against an accused after he married the prosecutrix during the pendency of the proceedings and produced adequate documents in that regard. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna allowed the petition filed by Rama @ Bande Rama, after the Petitioner-accused and victim filed a joint memo seeking closure of...
Show Cause Notice U/S 93 Gujarat Cooperative Societies Act Can't Be Issued For Transactions Prior To 5 Yrs From Date Of Inquiry: High Court
The Gujarat High Court, while exercising its extraordinary jurisdiction, has held that the show cause notice issued by the Registrar, Cooperative Societies under Section 93 of the Gujarat Cooperative Societies Act is not maintainable against the writ applicants on grounds of delay. The Bench comprising Justice Vaibhavi Nanavati noted that the writ-applicants were Chairman/ Managing...
[Qutub Minar Row] "Was Sitting Idle For Last 150 Yrs": ASI Opposes Intervention Claiming All Land Between Ganga & Yamuna From Agra To Gurugram
In connection with the appeals seeking restoration of alleged temples in Delhi's Qutub Minar complex, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has opposed an intervention application filed by one Kunwar Mahendra Dhwaj Prasad Singh seeking right over the territories running between the river Yamuna and Ganga from Agra to Meerut, Aligarh, Bullandshahr and Gurgaon.In the response filed by ASI,...
Kerala High Court Directs Regularization Of Its Court Managers As One-Time Measure
The Kerala High Court on Monday held that there can be no discrimination between the appointment of Court Managers in the High Court and the District Court, particularly when the same selection procedure is being followed for both.A Division Bench comprising Justices SV Bhatti and Basant Balaji, while holding so, observed that merely because notifications were different for the two and...
Madras High Court Seeks Centre's Stand On Plea To Constitute 9th National Commission For Backward Classes
The President of Advocates' Forum for Social Justice, K Balu has moved the Madras High Court seeking to constitute 9th National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) and to appoint Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and members in the Commission. The petition also seeks to set up State/ Regional units of the NCBC. When the matter was taken up on Wednesday, the bench of Chief Justice Munishwar...
NDPS Act | MP High Court Denies Default Bail Despite FSL Report Not Being Submitted With Chargesheet, Differs From Punjab & Haryana HC
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently differed from the viewpoint taken by the Punjab and Haryana High Court by observing that an accused in NDPS case is not liable for grant of default bail despite the prosecution failing to submit the FSL report along with the Challan (Chargesheet). The bench comprising of Justice Sujoy Paul accordingly observed- In the considered opinion of...