Tax Monthly Digest: February 2025

SUPREME COURTIncome Tax Act | Offence Committed Before Show-Cause Notice Compoundable As Covered By 'First Offence' In Compounding Guidelines: Supreme CourtCase title: VINUBHAI MOHANLAL DOBARIA Vs CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAXCase no.: SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (C) NO. 20519 OF 2024The Supreme Court on January 7 set aside the Gujarat High Court's judgment dated March 21, 2017, through which...

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024 [Arbitration And Conciliation Act]

Section 33 - Although the Arbitral Tribunal becomes functus officio after passing an award, it would still retain the limited jurisdiction to clarify or correct errors in an award. North Delhi Municipal Corporation v. S.A. Builders Ltd., 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 1010Section 11 (6) - Arbitration clause - Interpretation - Pro-arbitration approach - Mutual Consent - Validity and interpretation...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: February 17, 2025 To February 23, 2025

Nominal IndexCitationsPublic Information Officer and Registrar & Anr v. Onkar Dattatray Kalmankar & Anr.| Special Leave To Appeal (C) No. 2783/2025 2025 Livelaw (SC) 210Tapas Kumar Palit v. State of Chhattisgarh 2025 Livelaw (SC) 211Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation v. Mahadeo Krishna Naik 2025 Livelaw (SC) 212Sovaran Singh Prajapati v. State of Uttar Pradesh, Criminal...

POCSO Act: All India Annual Digest 2024

SUPREME COURTSections 4, 6, 29 and 30 - Presumption under the POCSO Act – Applicability and Conviction - Sentence Modification - Socio-Economic Considerations - Parole Denial - The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the appellant under Sections 302, 364, and 377 of IPC and Sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act for the aggravated penetrative sexual assault and murder of a four-year-old...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Monthly Digest: January 2025

Citations [2025 LiveLaw (PH) 01 - 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 44]XXX v. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 01ICICI BANK LTD. v. M/S ORIENT CLOTHING CO. PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 02Kuldeep Kumar Sharma v. Randeep Rana 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 03Amit Katyal v. CBI 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 04Devender v. State of Haryana [along with connected matters] 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 05PARVEEN ALIAS DADA v....

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: February 17 To February 23, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 61 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 69Nominal Index:Muniyappa A V AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 61Sangappa M Bagewadi AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 62Directorate of Enforcement AND Union of India & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 63Dr Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 64Suvarana AND State of...

Supreme Court Monthly Digest- January 2025

AdalatRefund court fees - The petitioner sought a refund of court fees paid in the trial court, first appellate court, and second appellate court after the High Court decided the second appeal based on an amicable settlement between the parties. The High Court rejected the petitioner's prayer for a refund, holding that no grounds for refund were made out. The Supreme Court upheld the High...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: February 10, 2025 To February 16, 2025

Nominal IndexCitationsHitesh Verma v. M/S Health Care At Home India Pvt. Ltd., Diary No. – 29293/2019 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 176Marippan & Anr. v. State Represented By The Inspector of Police 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 177AC Chokshi Share Broker Private Limited v. Jatin Pratap Desai & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 178Lalita v. Vishwanath & Ors., Criminal Appeal No. 1086 of 2017 2025 LiveLaw...

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024: Miscellaneous Acts

Airport Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act 2008The Supreme Court upheld the maintainability of appeals filed by Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) assailing orders of the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) under the AERA Act 2008 relating to tariff imposition on certain services. Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India v. Delhi...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: February 10 To February 16, 2025

Nominal Index [Citations 52 - 60] R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 52 V R Raghunathan AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 53 Sunil Yadav AND Y C Manju. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 54 Daniya Joy & Others AND The Indian Nursing Council & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 55 S.MUTHAIAH AND State By CBI. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar)...

Right To Information (RTI) Act: All India Annual Digest 2024

SUPREME COURTSection 12(4) – Validity of Central Information Commission (Management) Regulations, 2007 framed by the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) under Section 12(4) of the RTI Act – Powers of the CIC – Held, the use of the words “superintendence, direction and management” in Sections 12(4) of the RTI Act clearly provides the CIC an ambit of power wide enough to frame its...

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024 | Specific Relief Act, 1963

Section 16 - Whether the defendants were entitled to protection under Section 53A of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, based on an unregistered sale agreement - Whether the concurrent findings of the Trial Court, First Appellate Court, and High Court were perverse or erroneous. Held, the Supreme Court dismissed the Special Leave Petition, affirming the judgments of the High Court,...