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New Delhi: In a significant boost for Indian agencies in the extradition case against Mehul Choksi, an Antwerp court of appeal has ruled that there is a valid legal basis to extradite the fugitive diamantaire to India, while rejecting his allegations that the Indian government abducted him in Antigua and Barbuda in 2021. Choksi is also understood to have applied for asylum in Belgium, anticipating an adverse outcome, people familiar with the matter said. The chamber of accusation, part of the A ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Antwerp Court of Appeal has given a positive advice to the Belgian government to clear fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi's extradition on six of the seven counts of alleged charges he is facing in India. In its advice to the Belgian government on April 3, the 'kamer van inbeschuldiging' (chamber of accusation) of The Antwerp Court of Appeal has said that all the alleged crimes for which Choksi is wanted in India -- criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forgery or fraud, ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Antwerp Court of Appeal has given a positive advice to the Belgian government to clear fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi's extradition on six of the seven counts of alleged charges he is facing in India. In its advice to the Belgian government on April 3, the 'kamer van inbeschuldiging' (chamber of accusation) of The Antwerp Court of Appeal has said that all the alleged crimes for which Choksi is wanted in India -- criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forger ...Read More >
Vedanta had approached the court seeking a stay on Adani Enterprises' Rs 14,500-crore resolution plan. In a setback to Vedanta Group, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the implementation of Adani Enterprises' resolution plan for debt-ridden Jaiprakash Associates Ltd. A bench, led by Chief Justice (CJI) Surya Kant, noted that the insolvency proceedings are already listed for final hearing before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on April 10, and therefore found no r ...Read More >
In a significant pre-poll development in West Bengal, a tribunal headed by former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court TS Sivagnanam has ordered the reinstatement of Congress candidate Motab Sheikh in the electoral roll, resolving a "deletion" dispute that had briefly blocked his nomination process. Sheikh, the Congress nominee from Farakka in Murshidabad district, expressed relief after the ruling, saying the order had restored both his voting and political rights. "Justice has finally be ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday refused to stay the implementation of Adani Group's ₹14,500-crore debt resolution plan for debt-laden Jaiprakash Associates (JAL). A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said it didn't see any reason to interfere with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) interim order allowing the implementation of the resolution plan, a decision challenged by Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta. Noting that Vedanta's appeal is now listed for final hearing on April 10 ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday did not interfere with the order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), which had refused to stay Adani Group's Rs 14,535 crore bid to acquire Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL). The bench, however, restrained the monitoring committee of ailing JAL from taking any major policy decision without a prior nod from the NCLAT. The top court asked mining giant Vedanta Ltd and successful resolution applicant, Adani Enterprises Ltd, to raise contentio ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday did not interfere with the order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), which had refused to stay Adani Group's Rs 14,535 crore bid to acquire Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL). The bench, however, restrained the monitoring committee of ailing JAL from taking any major policy decision without a prior nod from the NCLAT. The top court asked mining giant Vedanta Ltd and successful resolution applicant, Adani Enterprises Ltd, to ra ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 5 (PTI) Congress candidate Mohtab Sheikh, whose name was earlier put under the adjudication cases column of the final electoral roll on February 28, was a happy man Sunday evening after a tribunal ordered that his name be reinstated. A relieved Sheikh told mediapersons, "Justice has finally been delivered. My name has been cleared and restored, and I can now proceed with filing my nomination." This was apparently the first such ruling by any tribunal involving a candidate to reso ...Read More >
BHOPAL: Hours after a Delhi court sentenced Congress' Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti to three years in jail in a bank fraud case on Thursday, the Madhya Pradesh assembly secretariat hurriedly opened its office around midnight, issued a notification on Bharti's disqualification from the assembly and declared the seat vacant.The disqualification, however, has triggered a political row, with the opposition party terming the "midnight" move a "blatant violation of the democratic process". The Delhi court ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced Congress' Madhya Pradesh MLA, Rajendra Bharti, and co-accused Raghuvir Sharan Prajapati to three years of imprisonment in a document forgery and bank fraud case, a day after finding them guilty of conspiring to cheat a cooperative bank while holding positions of responsibility. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on both.The defence submitted that Bharti is a "sitting MLA from Datia, and is a third-time MLA who is responsible for the dis ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted an aspiring candidate of the Congress to approach the newly constituted appellate tribunal in Kolkata against the deletion of his name from the electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was hearing the plea of Motab Shaikh, a probable Congress candidate, challenging his inclusion in the "adjudication deletion l ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has set aside an NCLT order rejecting Belgotex India's insolvency plea against Puneet India on the ground of a pre-existing dispute. Allowing the Belgotex India appeal, a two-member NCLAT bench has remanded the matter back to the New Delhi bench of NCLT, directing it to pass a fresh order after hearing all the parties. The appellate tribunal said a "patent illegality has been committed" by the National Company Law Tribu ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Baltej Singh, nephew of Satwant Singh, one of the two bodyguards who had assassinated the then PM Indira Gandhi in Oct 1984, was running an international Meth cartel spanning Canada, India and New Zealand in cahoots with pro-Khalistan elements in these countries. The drug money was funding the so-called Khalistan movement, and Baltej was one of the masterminds and main fundraisers for the anti-India and pro-Khalistan rallies in Auckland, sources said.A probe into his pro-Khalistan dru ...Read More >
New Delhi: Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta has moved the Supreme Court, seeking stay on the Adani Group's ₹14,500-crore debt resolution plan for now insolvent Jaiprakash Associates (JAL). Challenging the rejection of its revised bid, Vedanta told the apex court that the insolvency process lacked transparency and failed to maximise value for creditors. It alleged that the process followed by the JAL's committee of creditors in approving the plan of Adani Enterprises (AEL) was "unfair, opaque, and ine ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 30 (PTI) Mining giant Vedanta Ltd has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the NCLT's order approving Adani Group's Rs 14,535 crore bid to acquire Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL). According to the information available on the top court's website, Vedanta filed its appeal on March 25, a day after the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) refused to stay implementation of the plan. Adani Enterprises Ltd., meanwhile, has also filed a caveat in the Supreme Court, requ ...Read More >
Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) Chairperson Ahmed Isaack Hassan, High Court Judge Chacha Mwita, and lawyer Katwa Kigen are among those shortlisted for appointment as Judges of the Court of Appeal. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has published a list of 35 candidates, including 19 serving High Court judges and 15 advocates drawn from the Bar and academia, who will compete for 15 available positions. Renowned law lecturer Professor Migai Oketch, Environment and Land Court P ...Read More >
A Delhi court has transferred journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's appeal in a defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises Limited (AEL) to the district court, with a hearing scheduled for September 23. This follows the same court's decision on September 18 to overturn an earlier order that had directed journalists to remove allegedly defamatory content against AEL. A Delhi court on Monday transferred the appeal of journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the district court which on September 23 hear ...Read More >
Mumbai: The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has cleared the way for Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd's (TSPL) demerger from its parent company Vedanta Ltd, setting aside a lower court's order that put the proposed demerger on hold. The order comes after the counsel for Talwandi Sabo informed the NCLAT that it has reached a settlement with China's Sepco Electric Power Construction Corp. (Sepco) on 11 September. Sepco is one of the creditors of TSPL that objected to the demerger for allege ...Read More >
The Allahabad High Court overturned Abbas Ansari's conviction in a 2022 hate speech case, setting aside the special MP MLA court's order of two years' imprisonment. Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, was convicted for threatening government officials during an election speech. He was booked under several sections of the IPC and also faced a fine. The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed the conviction of Mukhtar Ansari's son Abbas Ansari in a 2022 hate speech case. Justice Samir Jain set asid ...Read More >
Women in tribal communities, and their legal heirs, are entitled to an equal share in ancestral property and assets, the Supreme Court said Thursday afternoon in a landmark judgement for gender equality amongst some of the most marginalised sections of society. A bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said depriving women of ancestral inheritance was both unfair and discriminatory, and a violation of their right to equality, pointing to Article 14, which guarantees equality b ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an order declaring a deceased man's wife the rightful owner of his land and said the non disclosure of her status or the reason of her disinheritance in the will ought not be examined in isolation but in light of the case's facts. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Joymalya Bagchi therefore dismissed the challenge to a Punjab and Haryana High Court order passed in November 2009, declaring the wife as the owner. The bench noted afte ...Read More >
Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Tuesday opposed activist Medha Patkar's plea before the Delhi high court challenging her conviction and sentencing in a 2001 criminal defamation case, contending that she had played an active role in authorising the contents of a press release alleging that a cheque issued by his NGO to the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) had bounced. A bench of justice Shailender Kaur reserved its verdict on Patkar's challenge to the sessions court's April 2 order upholding her co ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will soon launch a premium housing scheme for 2025, offering 177 residential HIG, MIG, and LIG flats and garages across the city. The flats will be offered through e-auction at Vasant Kunj, Dwarka, Rohini, Pitampura, Jasola, Ashoka Pahari, and other areas."The authority, in a meeting chaired by lieutenant governor VK Saxena, approved the DDA Premium Housing Scheme, 2025," a DDA official said. The e-auction, apart from the flats, will be done for 67 ca ...Read More >
New Delhi: With 15 million registered taxpayers and robust growth in the revenue receipts, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) ecosystem is continuing to evolve with a focus on ease of doing business, better compliance and wider economic participation, the finance ministry said on Monday as the indirect tax system completed eight years. Annual revenue from GST, introduced on 1 July 2017, has doubled to ₹22.08 trillion in FY25 from five years ago and micro, small and medium enterprises are finding ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has dismissed a plea filed by the Resolution Professional (RP) of the Think and Learn Private Limited (TLPL), the parent company of edtech firm Byju's, against an earlier order by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). The NCLT had directed that the shareholding in Aakash Educational Services should remain unchanged until further hearings. A two-member bench of the NCLAT, comprising Justice Sharad Kumar S ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has ruled on the suo motu revision powers of high courts. High courts cannot enhance sentences without appeals from victims. This applies to convictions on other charges too. The ruling came in a case involving Nagarajan. He was convicted by the Madras High Court. The Supreme Court set aside part of the high court's order.The Supreme Court on Wednesday held high courts cannot exercise suo motu revision powers either to enhance the sentence or to convict an accused on any other ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday said that appeals challenging the acquittals of accused persons in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases need to be filed seriously by prosecution agencies and not just for the sake of it. A bench of justices, Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, was informed by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Aishwarya Bhati, who represented the Delhi Police, that the state has asked prosecuting agencies to file Special Leave Petitions (SLPs). Also R ...Read More >
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