The Delhi High Court has ruled that the Commercial Courts (Amendment) Act, 2018, cannot be retroactively applied. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad held that there is no lack of clarity or ambigu ..
The Supreme Court stated that when considering a transfer petition under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the wife's convenience must be considered. In this case, the husband petitioned the Family Court in Vellore for annulment of marr ..
According to the Supreme Court, trust property cannot be alienated unless it is for the benefit of the Trust and/or its beneficiaries. When a Trust property is transferred without the prior sanction of the Registrar under Section 14 [of the Madhya ..
The Delhi High Court ruled that in the case of a short deduction of TDS, no disallowance under Section 40 (a)(ia) of the Income Tax Act is required, and that the correct course of action would have been to invoke Section 201 of the Income Tax Act. ..
In this case, the petitioner ordered an Acer laptop for around Rs 54,000 from the online shopping portal Flipkart. Tech Connect Retail Pvt Ltd was the product's seller. However, the petitioner received a laptop worth around Rs 35,000 from I-Life ..
The Supreme Court expanded the scope of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act to include unmarried women on Thursday, allowing a 25-year-old woman to abort her 24-week pregnancy arising from a consensual relationship. "A woman's right to ..
In the case of Priyasha Bhattacharyya vs State of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court recently held in a notable judgement, that under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, a police officer has no authority to disqualify the driving licence of a person. Ju ..
In the case of Bunker Partner OU v. MV MAIA-1, the Kerala High Court directed a Russian vessel by the name of MV MAIA-1 to be detained at the Cochin Port Trust for non-payment of dues to an Estonian firm namely, Bunker Partner OU. The Court was con ..
The observation was made by a bench of Justices R Mahadevan and Sathya Narayana Prasad while dismissing a petition that challenged show cause notices issued to the petitioner, who claimed that the notices were barred by limitation. "If the date ..
The Allahabad High Court has clarified that a charge under Section 326A IPC can be filed against the accused even if no grievous harm is done to an acid attack survivor, and that grievous harm to an acid attack survivor is not required in every case ..