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Whether confiscation by Custom & Excise Authority forfeits the claim of Secured Creditor over such property? Whether the dues of Excise department create a First Charge? SC answers

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of L. Nageswara Rao and Vineet Saran*, JJ., quashed the confiscation order of Customs and Central Excise

Case Briefs High Courts

Tri HC | Statement of the victim show exaggerations and improved versions; Court reduces sentence in POCSO matter

Tripura High Court: Arindam Lodh, J. partly allowed an appeal which was filed challenging the judgment of conviction and order of sentence

Case Briefs High Courts

Daughters and widow of a deceased would inherit properties of deceased as tenants in common or joint tenants? Bom HC explains

Bombay High Court: Mangesh S. Patil, J., expressed that, by virtue of Section 19 of the Hindu Succession Act, it has been

Case Briefs High Courts

Unity of India is not made of bamboo reeds which will bend to the passing winds of empty slogans; foundations of our nation are more enduring: All HC while granting bail to Kashmiri Students

Allahabad High Court: Expressing that Students travelling freely to different parts of the country in the quest for knowledge is the true

Case Briefs Supreme Court

“Land owner cannot be deprived of the use of the land for years together”; SC sets aside Bombay HC’s direction to acquire a land almost 20 years after finalisation of development plan

Supreme Court: In a case where the Development Plan was finalized in the year 2002, but the same was never implemented nor

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC │ The interest of revenue has been safeguarded; Order of detention against the State upheld in matter of GST Act

Calcutta High Court: The Division Bench of T. S. Sivagnanam and Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, JJ., dismissed an appeal and connected application which was

Case Briefs District Court

Merely because an accused is a Muslim, governed by personal laws, can be debarred from availing rights under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000? Delhi Court answers

Patiala House Courts: In a matter for grant of custody parole, Dharmender Rana, ASJ-02, held that, merely because the accused is Muslim

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Developer issued two allotment letters, increasing cost of a unit in second by correcting taxes, lease rent and advance maintenance charges: Read whether UPRERA finds it to be illegal

Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Appellate Tribunal, Lucknow: The Division Bench of Justice Dr D.K. Arora (Chairman) and Rajiv Misra (Administrative Member) set

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Refusal to continue to execute a contract unless reciprocal promises are performed by the other party is not abandonment of contract: SC

Supreme Court: Explaining the law on abandonment on contractual obligation, the bench of Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian*, JJ has held that

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | Economic offender should not be dealt as general offender because economic offenders run parallel economy; bail rejected

Rajasthan High Court: Narendra Singh Dhaddha rejected bail and dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The present bail application has been

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Declaration under the Income Declaration Scheme cannot lead to non-declarant’s immunity from taxation: SC

Supreme Court: The bench of UU Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat*, JJ has held that the declaration under the Income Declaration Scheme

Case Briefs High Courts

[SC Collegium December Meeting] Newspaper reports are of no evidentiary value and Courts would be transgressing their well settled limitation if cognizance were to be taken of such unsubstantiated and unverified reports: Del HC

Delhi High Court: In a matter wherein, details were sought with regard to Supreme Court Collegium meeting held on 12-12-2018, Yashwant Varma,

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | Society has a vital interest in grant or refusal of bail because criminal offence is the offence against the society; Bail applications rejected in fraud case under Epidemic Diseases Act

Uttaranchal High Court: Alok Kumar Verma, J. rejected three bail applications of the applicants who were in custody for the offence under

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can step-children claim property right in mother’s mehar after her death? Does a registered mehar deed become unenforceable for being nominal? SC answers

Supreme Court: The Division Bench of L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai*, JJ., upheld the impugned judgment of the High Court wherein

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Forcing buyers to purchase insurance policies? Even if dealers offer to sell insurance policies to customers, customers may yet have option to buy such policies from alternative channels: CCI

Competition Commission of India (CCI): The Coram of Ashok Kumar Gupta (Chairperson) and Sangeeta Verma and Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi (Members) addressed a

Case Briefs High Courts

In view of changed definition of rape under S. 375 (b) of IPC pari materia to S. 3(b) of POCSO Act, whether sexual intercourse is necessary to attract ingredients of offence of rape or penetrative sexual assault? Chh HC elaborates

Chhattisgarh High Court: Addressing a case wherein a minor girl was subjected to sexual, Deepak Kumar Tiwari, J., held that, In view

Case Briefs District Court

Can Director of a company be automatically, vicariously liable for commission of an offence on behalf of company under S. 138 NI Act? Patiala House Courts answers

Patiala House Courts, New Delhi: Shreya Arora Mehta, Metropolitan Magistrate, while addressing a matter with regard to Section 138 of the Negotiable

Case Briefs High Courts

Guj HC | Simplicitor registration of FIR/s by itself cannot have any nexus with the breach of maintenance of public order; Detention order quashed

Gujarat High Court: Rajendra M. Sareen, J. allowed a petition which was directed against the detention order passed by respondent–detaining authority in

Case Briefs High Courts

Illegitimate child’s right to be considered for Compassionate appointment: Read what Chh HC says

Chhattisgarh High Court: Sanjay K. Agarwal, J., held that an illegitimate son would be entitled to consideration on compassionate ground and cannot

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | State directed to take steps to frame and notify Rules for Registration of Sikh Marriages

Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, ACJ. and Ramesh Chandra Khulbe, J. took up a PIL filed by