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Tax Cases Weekly Round-Up: 24 July To 30 July, 2022
Supreme Court Supreme Court Allows 2-Months Extra Window For Availing Transitional Credit; Directs GSTN To Open Portal For TRAN-1/TRAN-2 Forms Case Title : Union of India vs. M/s Filco Trade Centre Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. Citation : 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 628 In a relief to several assessees who missed the statutory deadline, the Supreme Court has directed the Goods and...
Kerala High Court Weekly Round Up: July 25 To July 30, 2022
Nominal Index [Citations 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 375 - 390]NTPC v. Aishwarya Mohan, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 375Nimal James & Ors v. State of Kerala & Ors, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 376R. Karthik v. State of Kerala & Ors, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 377KSRTC & Ors. v. K. Venu Kumar, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 378XXXX v. State of Kerala and others, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 379MES Dental College v. Shahana P.S &...
Six Persons Arrested For Allegedly Offering Namaz At Lulu Mall In Lucknow Granted Bail By Local Court
Six persons who were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police for allegedly offering namaz in Lucknow Lulu Mall have been granted bail on Thursday by a local Court in Lucknow.The Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lucknow granted bail to Accused Mohammad Adil, Mohammad Sayeed, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Atif, Mohammad Rehan, and Mohammad Luqman on the condition of furnishing a personal...
Kerala High Court Monthly Digest: July 2022 [Citations 314 - 390]
Nominal Index [Citations 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 314 - 390]Bharat Petroleum Corporation & Anr v. Saju A.R & Ors, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 314Southern Railway v. M/s Cherian Varkey Construction Co. Pvt Ltd, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 315Abdul Jaleel v. Cabinet Principal Secretary & Ors, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 316R. Baji v. Kerala State Road Transport Corporation Ltd, 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 317Saritha S. Nair...
Cases Valued Below ₹10 Lakhs Pending Before Commercial Courts Need Not Be Transferred Despite Increase In Pecuniary Limit: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday held that cases pending before commercial courts in the State as on 18.03.2022 which have a pecuniary value less than Rs.10 lakh shall continue before the commercial courts.Justice A. Badharudeen observed that a transfer of such pending cases was not necessary since the Government Order increasing the pecuniary limit of commercial courts did not communicate...
Kerala Court Pulls Up State Police For Not Registering FIR On Complaints of Illegal Mining Against Company Engaged In NH Widening Work
The Nedumkanam Magistrate Court in Kerala recently pulled up the State Police for not registering a case based on a complaint alleging illegal mining and granite theft worth crores by those engaged in widening of National Highways in Kerala and has directed the SHO, Shanthanpuram, to register the FIR on the complaint filed by the petitioner. The petition points out that the project to widen...
Supreme Court Orders Status Quo On Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project
The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, directed status quo on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP), including land acquisition process with respect to the said project. The KLIP, at present envisages to provide irrigation facilities by diverting 3 TMC of water per day from inter-state River Godavari till State of Telangana exhausts the entirety of its annual entitlement of...
'Vicious Character Attacks Not Journalistic Freedom' : Delhi High Court Directs Mint To Take Down Article Against Gaurav Taneja
Granting ad-interim relief to Youtuber Gaurav Taneja, popularly known as 'Flying Beast', the Delhi High Court has directed Mint Newspaper to take down an article published by it on May 8, 2022, which had alleged defamatory statements against him.The article in question titled "Shouldn't brands stop supporting sordid influencers?" was published after Taneja had posted a picture on Twitter...
Bombay High Court Directs National Board To Decide Couple's Plea To Import Cryo-Preserved Embryos From US Lab
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the National Board – constituted under the 2021 new Assisted Reproductive Technology Act (ART) and Surrogacy Act to decide a couple's plea to import their cryo-preserved embryo to India, stored in a laboratory in the United States since 2016. A division bench of Justices SV Gangapurwala and SM Modak asked the couple in their 40s to appear...
S.195(1) CrPC Does Not Bar Registration Of FIR Or Require That Written Complaint By Public Servant Be Filed Before Court: MP High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench, recently held that Section 195(1) of CrPC nowhere states that that written complaint by the public officer has to be filed before the Court. The Court noted that the said provision also does not debar registration of FIR.Rejecting the application to quash the FIR against the Applicant/ accused, Justice S.K. Singh observed- Section 195(1)...
Right To Property May No More Be A Fundamental Right, But Its Sanctity As Human Right Is Still Intact: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday ruled that the Right to property might have fell from the pedestal of being a fundamental right but it continues to enjoy the sanctity of being a Human Right. A bench comprising Justices Tashi Rabstan and Wasim Sadiq Nargal observed: "No person shall be deprived of his/her property saved by authority of law or procedure...