Month: January 2021

Yet more taxing at Indus with Shashi Mathews from PDS IndusLaw has hired its second tax lateral partner with PDS Legal director Shashi Mathews having joined as a partner in its Delhi office. Mathews, a 2009 Amity Law School graduate who had also worked at Economic Laws Practice (ELP) before PDS, specialises in indirect taxes

A petition was filed in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh questioning the entry of Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and some other Cabinet Ministers into Tirumala Tirupati temple. The contention raised was that the Chief Minister was Christian and had attended gospel meetings and sermons. The single judge bench of Justice Battu Devanand rejected

Arjun Goswami moves from ADB Manila to CAM India Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has announced the joining of former Asian Development Bank (ADB) regional chief Arjun Goswami as director in its public policy practice, heading the practice area from both Mumbai and Delhi. Arjun Goswami had been based in the Philippines as the ADB’s chief, regional

Banker Arijit Basu AZB & Partners has hired former State Bank of India (SBI) managing director Arijit Basu as a senior consultant according to a press release from the firm; the exact ambit of his role was not clear at the time of going to press though it is likely to be a part-time position.

On Monday Lahore High Court announced Two-finger test for the virginity test of a rape victim is unconstitutional and against the women rights and dignity of women. The court also added such examinations are absurd and unscientific with no medical ground.  Justice Ayesha A. Malik stated that such medical examinations are prejudiced and against the

Recently actor Anoop Menon, A-One Medicals, and Dhatri Ayurveda Private Ltd were held liable for false advertising at a consumer court in Kerala. The victim Mr. Francis Vadakkan filed a case back in 2012 saying that the Dharti hair oil which promised hair growth for the consumer in six weeks was a lie. Mr. Vadakken

Legal Developments of 2020: The pandemic and its consequential lockdown may taint the zeitgeist of the belated (finally) year to be one of global halt, idleness and ruin, but the legal fraternity did not succumb to its blow. The needs of the hours were met through the year with the luminaries literally burning the midnight

The judgment was pronounced in a series of petitions challenging the project Central Vista, concerning the renovation and development of nearly 86 acres of land in the centre of Lutyens Delhi, marked among others structures such as the Parliament, Rashtrapati Bhavan, India Gate, North Block, and South Block. The Central Vista project was challenged by the Petitioners for