New Khaitan partners and director Khaitan & Co has promoted a total of 22 principal associates and counsel to salaried partner positions. One counsel – Sumit Chakraborty – was promoted to the partner-equivalent director position in Kolkata’s corporate team. A total of four principal associates were promoted to counsel. The Mumbai office – the firm’s
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Supreme Court: GST Act Doesn’t Affect Right of Purchaser of Non-GST Goods to Avail Concessional Rate The Supreme Court (SC) on 24 March 2021, in the case titled, Commissioner of Commercial Taxes & Anr. (Petitioners) v. The Ramco Cements Ltd. (Respondents) has upheld the decisions of various High Courts (HCs) that the purchasers of Non-GST
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For the three controversial farm bills, a bench guided by CJI SA Bobde gave a heads up to execute the bills. Further, the Supreme Court appointing a three-member committee to scrutinize these bills and the report for the same submitted in a sealed cover as reported by the ANI. The farm laws studied for about
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NCLT Admits Insolvency Application Filed by Wave Group The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLT) admitted an insolvency application filed by Wave Group stating that it is trying to protect the interest of the homebuyers after Noida authority sealed its’ under-construction project and taken over the possession of over one million sq ft. The well-known
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Karnataka High Court: Police Need Not Wait for Magistrate’s Order to conduct Raid The Karnataka High Court (HC) held in the case titled that Gopal Krishna and Ors. v. State of Karnataka that a raid conducted by the Police will not come under the purview of investigation. The HC noted that the raid was conducted
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The Supreme Court has once again reiterated that the High Court should not interfere with the decision of the first appellate court using its jurisdiction under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) unless a broad question of law is involved. A division bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice S Ravindra
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Sapan Gupta moves to head AM legal from London Arcelor Mittal Mumbai-based vice president legal and effective regional general counsel Sapan Gupta, who had joined in January 2020 from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, has been promoted to group general counsel based in London, moneycontrol and others reported yesterday. He will be based in London and heading
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It has to be said in all fairness that in the fitness of things, a Single Judge Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V of Kerala High Court has on March 17, 2021 in a persuasive, pertinent, penetrating and powerful judgment titled The State Public Information Officer and Deputy Superintendent of Police vs The State Information
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It has to be mentioned before mentioning anything else that in a fresh, welcome and worth mentioning development, the Delhi High Court just recently on 26 March 2021 in a latest, learned, laudable and landmark judgment titled Arun Kumar Parihar vs State (Govt NCTD) in Crl.M.C.No. 863/2021 has minced just no words to hold that a
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The Hon’ble Delhi HC has observed that “an FIR filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereinafter referred to as “POCSO Act, 2012″) cannot be quashed on the ground that the victim after attaining majority decided to compromise the matter with the accused.” The Hon’ble single judge bench while hearing the
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