The Calcutta High Court order directing the CBI to probe into the role of West Bengal government officials in an alleged teacher recruitment scam was stayed by the Supreme Court on Monday, in a huge relief to the Mamata Banerjee-led government. The top court was hearing a petition by the state government against a high … Read more
Three trade bodies have moved the Supreme Court against a new income tax provision related to payment to micro and small enterprises. Federation of All India Vyapar Mandal, Federation of Madras Merchants and Manufacturers Association and Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations have sought interim stay and finally quashing the amendment in the Income Tax … Read more
The top court said matters of matrimony can rarely be said to be simple or straightforward. New Delhi: A husband has no control over his wife’s ‘streedhan’ (woman’s property) and while he may use it during the time of his distress, he has a moral obligation to return it to his wife, the Supreme Court … Read more
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested after he evaded nine summons and only after the High Court refused to grant him interim relief, the Enforcement Directorate has told the Supreme Court. Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party alleged the Central agency was just a “machine churning out lies” at the behest of the … Read more
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said we regard property as something of holding in trust New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Constitution intended to bring about a “sense of social transformation” and it would be “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be regarded as material resources of community … Read more
The Supreme Court has reserved the verdict in the VVPAT case New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it is not the controlling authority for elections and cannot dictate the functioning of Election Commission, a constitutional authority. The remarks came during the hearing on petitions seeking thorough cross-verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines … Read more
The court had said that the electoral process has to have sanctity New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking directions to tally Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with votes cast through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and … Read more
Rejecting another set of apologies filed by Patanjali founders Ramdev and Balkrishna for the company’s misleading ads, the Supreme Court today said “we are not blind” and that “it does not want to be generous” in this case. The court tore into the Uttarakhand licensing authority for not acting against Patanjali for so long, and … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has restored the bail granted to a Youtuber who allegedly made derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin saying that everyone who makes allegations on social media cannot be jailed. The bench, comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, said that there was no evidence to suggest … Read more
Online Gaming & Casinos emerged at the top in terms of detection of GST evasion during Fiscal Year 2023-24, annual data compiled by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) showed. This sector alone accounted for more than 40 per cent of the amount involved in GST evasion detection DGGI detected over 6,074 cases involving … Read more