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'With Proper Resolve Citizens Can Be Spared Of Unnecessary Inundation Every Year': Kerala HC Directs Authorities To Periodically Clean Drains
The Kerala High Court on Thursday issued directions to various competent authorities to clear up the drainage system and canals to prevent inundation of the city. The Court further directed the Cochin Corporation and the Police to ensure that waste is not being dumped in the drains while ordering that if any person found violating these orders shall be dealt with under the full warrant...
Compensation With Interest Received Up To The Date Of Land Acquisition Is Taxable Under The Head "Capital Gains": ITAT
The Mumbai Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that the compensation with interest received by the assessee up to the date of land acquisition should be taxed under the head "Capital Gains".The two-member bench of Amit Shukla (Judicial Member) and Gagan Goyal (Accountant Member) has observed that the interest paid to the assessee for any delay in payment of...
Citizens' Representations Reduced To Mere Paper, System Moves In "Snail Speed": High Court Pulls Up DDA Over Failure To Decide 35 Yrs Old Application
Calling it a sad state of affairs, the Delhi High Court has pulled up the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) over its failure to decide a 35 years old application filed in the year 1987. Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, who was hearing a plea filed by a poor farmer namely Ishwar Singh, was informed that petitioner's application was pending before Land and Building Department but could not be...
Delhi HC Directs Speedy Disposal Of Cases For COVID Protocol Violations; Disapproves Police Issuing 41A Notices In Such Cases
The Delhi High Court on Thursday observed that it would be appropriate for the Delhi police to take quick action in all the pending matters relating to violation of orders passed under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 by filing complaints as required under law before the appropriate court, adding that such courts ought to dispose of the matters without further delay.Justice Asha Menon...
26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack Survivor Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Allotment Of Residence
The youngest survivor of the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks, Devika Rotawan, has once again approached the Bombay High Court seeking allotment of a residential premises. Rotawan had earlier approached the High Court in 2020. The court had disposed of her petition with directions to the State government to consider her application. As the State rejected Rotawan's plea,...
Know GST Rate On 7 Goods
Based on the recommendations of the GST Council in its 47th meeting held on the 28th and 29th June at Chandigarh, the CBIC has issued clarifications with reference to the GST levy on various goods.5% GST on electrically operated vehicle The CBIC has clarified that an electrically operated vehicle is to be classified under HSN 8703 irrespective of whether the battery is not fitted...
"Gandhi Belongs To All": Gujarat Govt Opposes Tushar Gandhi's Locus In Filing PIL Against Sabarmati Ashram Revamp Plan In High Court
While defending its plan to revamp/redevelop the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad at the estimated cost of ₹1,200-crore, the Gujarat Government on Wednesday submitted before the Gujarat High Court that Mahatma Gandhi Ji belongs to all i.e., 140 Crore Indians.Gujarat's Advocate General Kamal Trivedi argued thus as he challenged the locus of Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi...
'Constitutional Functionaries Can't Be Summoned As Witnesses On Mere Asking': Karnataka High Court Quashes Subpoena Qua Ex-Chief Of ECI
The Karnataka High Court has "set at naught" a single bench order summoning Ex-Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora, as a witness in an Election Petition calling in question the election of BJP candidate Mahesh Kumatalli from Athani Assembly Constituency in 2019. A division bench of Justices Krishna S Dixit and P. Krishna Bhat observed,"Ordinarily, in...
Judge's Prerogative To Dispense With English Translations: Kerala High Court Clarifies Earlier Order
Clarifying its earlier order mandating the filing of English Translation of all Malayalam documents, a single bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday clarified that it is the prerogative of a judge to dispense with that requirement on a prayer to that effect being made.Justice Amit Rawal passed the clarification order in an interlocutory application moved by Kerala High Court...
Baba Ramdev's Allopathy Remarks: Delhi High Court Not Convinced With Proposed Clarification On Coronil
The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to accept the proposed clarification made by Baba Ramdev and other defendants in a suit filed by several doctors' associations against the Yoga guru for allegedly spreading misinformation about COVID-19 cure through his statements against allopathy and in favour of Patanjali's product Coronil.Justice Anup J. Bhambhani was of the view that the...
"He Had No Work In Hathras, Use Of Tainted Money Can't Be Ruled Out": Allahabad High Court While Denying Bail To Sidhique Kappan
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday denied bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in connection with the 'Hathras Conspiracy Case' as it noted that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the accusations against Kappan are prima facie true.At the outset, the Court noted that during the investigation, it had come on record that Kappan had no work at Hathras when he was...
Breaking: Mumbai Court Extends Sanjay Raut's ED Custody In Patra Chawl Scam Case Till August 8, Rejects Intervention Alleging Threatening Of Witness
A Mumbai Special Court today extended ED custody of Sanjay Raut in Patra Chawl Scam case till August 8. Special Judge MG Deshpande said that the agency has made "remarkable progress" in the investigation."It is a fact that trail of money 1.17 and 1.08 crore was not before the court earlier...some more amounts have been revealed. ED pointed out bank statements and further trail..."The Judge...