Tag: Delhi High Court

Should Lawyers, Law Firms come under GST? Delhi High Court Asks Government to clarify

Source – barandbench.com Moreover, do the notifications for collecting such tax – issued under Section 9 (4) of CGST Act, Section 5(4) of the IGST Act and Section 9 (4) of the DGST Act fall foul of the recommendations of the GST Council? These were the questions posed by a Division Bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Pratibha Singh of the Delhi

Zakir Naik’s IRF moves Delhi High Court against order upholding organisation’s ban under UAPA

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: Controversial preacher Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) on Friday moved the Delhi High Court challenging a tribunal’s order upholding the Centre’s decision to ban the organisation under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The matter came up for hearing before a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, who recused herself

Delhi High Court has curtailed women’s access to justice by terming rape laws as weapons of vendetta

Source – firstpost.com The judiciary isn’t quite helping the cause of women’s rights in India. On 31 July, the Delhi High Court, while upholding the acquittal of a government employee in a rape case, remarked that “women use law as weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta and tend to convert consensual physical relations as an incident of

Delhi High Court dismisses NDTV’s plea against I-T reassessment

Source – newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has upheld the Income Tax department’s decision to initiate re-assessment proceedings against media house NDTV for the assessment years 2008-09 and 2009-10, holding that the authority had reasons to believe that some transactions of those years were “bogus”. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Najmi

Blue Whale: Delhi High Court expresses concern over children’s suicide

Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today expressed concern over children allegedly committing suicide while playing the ‘Blue Whale’ Challenge, a internet suicide game, that has been allegedly linked to the deaths of several children worldwide. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also wondered why adults

Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Ashutosh pulled up by Delhi High Court, says judge cannot be blamed for speedy trial

Source – financialexpress.com Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ashutosh was pulled up by the Delhi High Court on Friday for filing a plea to set aside an order of a single judge, which had directed that the trial in the Rs 10 crore defamation suit filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley be conducted expeditiously, as per Indian Express

Delhi High Court helps man get passport back

Source – dnaindia.com A man whose passport was revoked by the Regional Passport Office (RPO) on charges that he had concealed information about the origin of his parents belonging from Tibet has been given his passport back by the Delhi High court after observing that the authorities have conducted themselves in a callous manner. “The respondents