Delhi High Court Directs BCI To Constitute Special Teams For Conducting Surprise Visits To Law Colleges, Shut Those Lacking Minimum Infra

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to constitute special expert teams to conduct surprise visits of law colleges that lack minimum infrastructure and adequate facilities. Justice Chandra Dhari Singh added that the inspection reports of the law colleges shall be uploaded on its website, within one month of such inspection."If any colleges upon such...

ITC Refund Admissible If Output Supply Tax Rate Is Less Than Inputs Tax Rate: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has held that refund of accumulated input tax credit (ITC) on account of inverted structure would be allowed if accumulation of ITC is on account of the rate of tax on output supply being less than the rate of tax on inputs (same goods) at the same point of time as per some concessional notification issued by the government providing for a lower rate of tax for...

No Malice Or Vendetta In Sanjay Raut's Arrest: ED Opposes Bail In Patra Chawl Case

There is no malice or vendetta in Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's arrest, the Enforcement Directorate told a special court in its reply to the politician's bail application in the Patra Chawl money laundering scam.It is the ED's case that Guru Ashish Construction, a subsidiary of HDIL, in a tri-parte agreement with Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), had undertaken...

Kerala High Court Constitutes District Collector Led Committee To Resolve Issue Of Flooding In Kochi

The Kerala High Court, on Friday, directed the District Collector to convene a committee of all the stakeholders to resolve the issue of flooding in the city of Kochi.Justice Devan Ramachandran expressed his displeasure at the fact that despite various orders being issued by the Court, the City of Kochi was flooded due to heavy rainfall last month and observed that one agency alone "cannot...

Eight Law Students Move High Court Over Delayed Result By GLC Mumbai; Seek State Bar Enrolment, Admission To LLM

Eight students of Government Law College, Mumbai (GLC) affiliated with Mumbai University, have filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court praying for declaration of their final semester results. The petition, filed through Advocate Ajinkya Udane, alleges that the petitioners' results were not declared along with the rest of the students. Another sixty-four students of the...

Covenanted Contractual Levies Cannot Be Undone By Govt Through Any Unilaterally Made Notification: Punjab & Haryana High Court

Punjab and Haryana High Court while dealing with writ petitions challenging a notification recently held that the statutory provisions of the Northern India Canal, and, Drainage Act, 1873 pertain only to occupiers of the apposite land using water for cultivating crops. Hence, it cannot apply to industrial units. In consequence, the covenanted contractual levies, as occur in the...

Breach Of Settlement Agreement Not A Ground To Trigger CIRP: NCLT Delhi Rejects Application For Revival Of Petition

The National Company Law Tribunal ("NCLT"), New Delhi Bench, comprising of Shri Dharminder Singh (Judicial Member) and Shri L.N. Gupta (Technical Member), while adjudicating an application filed in Bajaj Rubber Company Pvt. Ltd. v Saraswati Timber Pvt. Ltd., has declined to revive a petition filed under Section 9 of IBC, which was earlier withdrawn due to Settlement Agreement being...

Kashmir Remark Row: Delhi Court Accepts Media's Apology For Incorrect Reporting Against Kerala MLA KT Jaleel, Advises Caution

Reminding the media of its "onerous duty of responsible reporting", a Delhi Court today accepted the apology tendered by various media persons for incorrect reporting about summoning of Kerala MLA K.T. Jaleel over his remarks made on Kashmir on social media platform Facebook a couple of months ago. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal of Rouse Avenue Courts, who...

Members Contributions To Club Towards Infrastructure, A Capital Receipt: ITAT

The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT)consisting of Aby T. Varkey (Judicial Member) and Gagan Goyal (Accountant Member) has held that the voluntary contributions received from the members of the club towards infrastructure facilities were contributions received for a specific purpose and should be treated as a capital receipt.The assessee submitted that...

Kerala High Court Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Unaffordability Of Patented Life-Saving Medicines Following Death Of Petitioner

The Kerala High Court on Friday took suo moto cognizance of the unaffordability of patented life-saving medicines. Justice V.G. Arun, on being informed of the petitioner's death during the pendency of the proceedings, observed that, "the unfortunate incident should not result in the cause disposed by the petitioner to go in vain."In the plea moved through Advocate Maitreyi Sachidananda Hegde,...

Sikkim Govt Service Rules | Retired Re-Employed Employees Can't Be Denied Leave Encashment Benefits Unless Contractual: High Court

The Sikkim High Court recently observed that retired re-appointed employees cannot be denied the benefit of leave encashment, unless the re-engagement was contractual in nature.Referring to Rule 36 of the Sikkim Government Service (Leave) Rules, 1982, Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan observed:"The respondents' suggestion that there was financial burden upon the state exchequer by providing the...

Fee Payable To Insolvency Professional ; IBBI Notifies Third Amendment To CIRP Regulations

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India ("IBBI") has amended the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 ("CIRP Regulations") for a third time and has notified the amendment on 13.09.2022. The amendment has introduced Clause 34B and Schedule II to the CIRP Regulations which have brought about the following changes: The fee of the...