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Chh HC | Principles governing determination whether a transfer is a Benami transaction has been reiterated; Petition allowed

Chhattisgarh High Court: Rajendra Chandra Singh Samant J., allowed the petition and quashed the order. The facts of the case are such

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

SEBI | On account of active and willful issuance of fake and bogus contract notes, stockbroker registration cancelled

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): G. Mahalingam (Whole Time Member), while exercising powers conferred under Section 12(3) read with Section

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Benefit under Rule 27 LIC Pension Rules was rejected to a LIC Agent working as a field officer as no special qualification was required; Appeal dismissed

Karnataka High Court: A Division Bench of Sreenivas Harish Kumar and E. S. Indiresh JJ., dismissed the appeal being devoid of merits.

Law made Easy

Criminal Contempt of Courts [What is contempt and what isn’t? Where falls the line?]

by Kamini Sharma†

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

ITAT| Whether amount deducted from the sale proceeds constitute trading receipts in the hands of the Assessee?

by Akshat Malpani†

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CBI | Otherwise difficult to get for ‘real’, procured for ‘imaginary’ house: ‘Builder’, ‘bogus allottees’ and ‘sanctioners’ in trouble for loan | Issues summons

Special Court, CBI, Ghaziabad: The Court of Shivank Singh, Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI), issued summons against the builder for the alleged unapproved imaginary

Case Briefs High Courts

[Transgender in NCC] “We cannot take recourse to the outdated provisions of 1948 to deal with the realities of life in the year 2021”; Kerala HC directs NCC to consider enrolment of a trans woman in the female wing

Kerala High Court: In a historic judgment Anu Sivaraman, J., had broken the norm by allowing trans women to appear for enrolment

Op Eds OP. ED.

Callout: When Voice against Oppression Metamorphoses to an Instrument of Collective Bullying

by Abhishek Goyal*

Case Briefs High Courts

[Judicial Bias] HP HC | Merely because persons are related do not establish that the relationships were working or cordial; Crucial aspect is time period of knowledge

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Anoop Chitkara J., dismissed the petition finding no discrimination or likelihood of bias in the instant case at

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | A quasi-judicial authority vested with the power for cancellation of a license, could not have acted under the ‘dictation’ of another authority

Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of S. Muralidhar and B. P. Routray, JJ., quashed the impugned suspension order and allowed the

Op Eds OP. ED.

SCC Times

Chh HC | Principles governing determination whether a transfer is a Benami transaction has been reiterated; Petition allowed

SEBI | On account of active and willful issuance of fake and bogus contract notes, stockbroker registration cancelled

Kar HC | Benefit under Rule 27 LIC Pension Rules was rejected to a LIC Agent working as a field officer as no special qualification was required; Appeal dismissed

Criminal Contempt of Courts [What is contempt and what isn’t? Where falls the line?]

ITAT| Whether amount deducted from the sale proceeds constitute trading receipts in the hands of the Assessee?

CBI | Otherwise difficult to get for ‘real’, procured for ‘imaginary’ house: ‘Builder’, ‘bogus allottees’ and ‘sanctioners’ in trouble for loan | Issues summons

[Transgender in NCC] “We cannot take recourse to the outdated provisions of 1948 to deal with the realities of life in the year 2021”; Kerala HC directs NCC to consider enrolment of a trans woman in the female wing

Callout: When Voice against Oppression Metamorphoses to an Instrument of Collective Bullying

[Judicial Bias] HP HC | Merely because persons are related do not establish that the relationships were working or cordial; Crucial aspect is time period of knowledge

Ori HC | A quasi-judicial authority vested with the power for cancellation of a license, could not have acted under the ‘dictation’ of another authority

In an interesting pursuit ― Tale of two judgments

Stage of consideration of objections under Section 16 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996

Constitutional regulation of the political parties: Need of a new legal order

Changing Facades of Law on Admissibility of Electronic Evidence

Issue of Convertible Notes by Indian Start-up Company

Discharge of an Accused in Summons Triable Case

Analysis and Explanation of the Scope of Singapore Mediation Convention

Impact of AI in due diligence and law practice

A Winner All Along – Justice Indu Malhotra

Compliance checklist for change of name of a company [PL Archives]