Category - Latest Judgments

A. Taxation — Excise — Deductions — Deduction of the amount of liability to payment of sales tax on the excise duty component of the goods purchased by the assessee — Entitlement — Where in terms of an agreement, assessee had...

Excise — Central Excise Act, 1944 — S. 11-A — Extended period of limitation — When available — Where the facts which were supposedly suppressed by the assessee were already known to the Revenue — Revenue in an earlier case dealt...

Criminal Trial — Murderous assault — Conviction — Death sentence — Appreciation of evidence — Accused persons allegedly started assaulting victims, after an altercation in front of a shop, with a weapon, like a small axe, fired...

Suit for damages/compensation — Decree — Trial Judge had awarded damages with interest thereon @ 11% p.a. on account of damages suffered by plaintiff — Plaintiff/respondent purchased three confiscated fishing trawlers on an offer...

Narcotics and Intoxicants — Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 — Ss. 8(c) r/w 20(b) — Seizure of contraband — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Modification of sentence — Search of appellant’s...

A. Family and Personal Laws — Hindu Law — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Ss. 10 and 13 — Decree for divorce and decree of judicial separation — Distinction — In a decree for divorce, there is a severance of status and the...

Excise — Excise duty — Matter concerns printed PVC sheets, which have already borne duty of 25%, having been classified under Ch. 39 Heading 39.20, which deals with plastics and articles thereof — Case related to two Assessment...

A. Land Acquisition and Requisition — Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 — S. 24(2) — Lapse of proceedings — Applicability — Any determination under this...

It has come out that the plant and machinery owned by the respondent has already been sold in auction and, therefore, nothing survives in this appeal.  

A. Constitution of India — Art. 226 — Orders passed by the Labour Court/CGIT — Interference permissible by High Court — Extent of — Held, High Court is certainly not an appellate court in such cases and it can interfere only if...