A. Subair vs The Chief Election Commissioner of Kerala

  In the High Court of Kerala2019 (3) KHC 548, 2019(3) KLJ331PetitionerA.SubairRespondentThe Chief Election Commissioner of KeralaDate of Judgement10 June 2019BenchHon’ble Justice S.P. Chaly Facts of the case Petitioner is a permanent resident of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, and he holds an Electoral Identity Card issued by the Election Commission of India. According to the petitioner, name

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SEBI’s Proposed Framework for Corporate Bonds and Debenture Trustees

[Rashmi Birmole is a III year B.A., LL.B. student at ILS Law College, Pune] Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (“IL&FS”), a non-banking finance company (“NBFC”) belonging to a sub-category of systemically important non-deposit accepting core investment companies was, at the time, engaged in  financing and developing infrastructure projects. In June 2018, the collapse of IL&FS emerged

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Covid 19: Consequences on Contractual Obligations

[Meenal Maheshwari is the lead transactional counsel at Essar Group] With the pandemic that has subsumed the world, a common question that corporates are dealing with is the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on already contracted obligations. The most relevant question raise is: at what point does Covid-19 pandemic allow a party to delay performance,

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SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT LENDING BANKS OF JAYPEE INFRATECH LIMITED CANNOT BE CONSIDERED AS FINANCIAL CREDITORS

Recently, the Supreme Court passed a Judgment dated 26-02-2020 in Anuj Jain v. Axis Bank Ltd and others, wherein the Apex Court held that lenders cannot initiate corporate insolvency resolution process as a financial creditor under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 as amended thereof (the Code) against a third party, which has only created

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HIGH COURT OF DELHI HOLDS MAINTENANCE UNDER SECTION 125 CRPC IS FOR THE WELFARE OF NEGLECTED WIVES, CHILDREN AND PARENTS

Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri of the High Court of Delhi, while dealing with the Petition that challenged the Order passed by the Family Court which rejected the maintenance Petition filed by the Petitioner under Section 125 Criminal Procedure Code 1973. The High Court held that, in absence of documentary evidence on record showing that the

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SUPREME COURT LEGALISES CRYPTOCURRENCY

The Supreme Court quashed an Order which was passed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, 2018. In 2018 the RBI banned the financial services firms from trading in virtual currency or cryptocurrency. On 04th March, 2020 the Hon’ble Supreme Court made the decision after hearing several petitions challenging RBI’s April, 2018 Order

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