1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1064+ words) The Allahabad High Court has set aside four ex parte appellate orders passed against a company after it had been ordered to be wound up, observing that the liquidator’s authority to appoint counsel and safeguard the company’s interests was a…...

4+ day, 55+ min ago   (1635+ words) The Supreme Court has held that government authorities must decide requests concerning national sporting assignments with promptitude, observing that a delayed administrative decision may itself defeat the purpose for which the authority’s discretion is required to be exercised. The bench…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1115+ words) The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), New Delhi, has set aside a central excise duty demand of ₹72.33 lakh against an evaporative air cooler manufacturer after finding that the alleged clandestine clearances were calculated primarily from documents whose…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (394+ words) The operation resulted in the recovery of 27.45 kilograms of a green-coloured substance suspected to be hydroponic weed or ganja. Buy Now: Think Before You Pay Cash: 50+ Landmark Rulings on Section 40A(3) Of The Income Tax Act, 1961 The action was carried out…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (448+ words) The Gauhati High Court has quashed a show-cause notice proposing cancellation of a company’s GST registration after finding that the notice was vague and failed to identify the specific provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 or the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1552+ words) The Allahabad High Court has held that scrutiny of returns under Section 61 of the Goods and Services Tax Act is not an invariable condition precedent for issuing a show-cause notice under Section 74A where the proceedings originate from independent verification indicating…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1423+ words) The Supreme Court has declined to disturb the appointment of an Assistant Professor whose PhD degree was alleged to be forged, holding that the appointee’s UGC-NET qualification independently satisfied the mandatory eligibility criteria for the post. However, the bench of…...

5+ day, 38+ min ago   (1319+ words) The Supreme Court has held that a development authority cannot deny the benefit of its “Zero Period Policy” merely because a developer had some physical access to the allotted plot when the authority failed to provide the effective and legitimate…...

5+ day, 56+ min ago   (1437+ words) The Supreme Court has held that an arbitration clause contained in a loan agreement can bind a personal guarantor where the guarantee has been expressly incorporated into the loan agreement and forms an integral part of a single composite transaction....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1373+ words) The Supreme Court has held that assets belonging to a dissolved partnership firm cannot be retained by a newly constituted firm without purchasing them from the erstwhile partnership and settling the shares of all former partners. Upholding an Andhra Pradesh…...