Gujarat High Court Says GST Arrest Valid Though Verbatim Signed 'Reasons To Believe' Copy Was Not Supplied

The Gujarat High Court has upheld the arrest of a person accused in a fake Input Tax Credit (ITC) racket, holding that while an arrestee must be furnished the “reasons to believe” forming the basis of arrest to enable a legal challenge, failure to provide a verbatim signed copy of the Commissioner's internal note does not vitiate the arrest. "Therefore, this Court, is of the opinion that the 'reasons to believe' recorded by the Commissioner has been furnished to the petitioner, facilitating him...

Andhra Pradesh HC Sets Aside Order Refusing Interim Arrest Protection As Debtor Was Yet To Be Adjudicated Insolvent

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has recently held said courts must exercise “extreme caution” in matters involving personal liberty even in civil proceedings, while granting relief to a man facing arrest in execution proceedings during the pendency of his insolvency case. Justice Ravi Cheemalapati observed, "It is relevant here to note that the Constitutional Courts have consistently emphasized that courts must exercise extreme caution when dealing with matters involving personal liberty,...

Punjab & Haryana HC Grants Landowners 2013 Act Interest Over Arbitrator Award In Land Acquisition For Highway

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that denying landowners whose compensation is enhanced in arbitration under the National Highways Act the same interest benefits available to similarly placed landowners would be discriminatory and violative of Article 14. Justice Harkesh Manuja held, “In the present case, the learned Arbitrator, by denying parity to identically placed landowners even though only with regard to the interest component of the compensation, has acted arbitrarily and in...

Mortgage Suit Transferred From Civil Court To DRT Does Not Become Money Recovery Proceeding: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has recently held that a mortgage suit does not become a simple money recovery proceeding merely because it is transferred from a civil court to the Debt Recovery Tribunal, holding that the lender's security interest and the borrower's equity of redemption continue to subsist. Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee made the observation while allowing UCO Bank's challenge to orders of the Debt Recovery Tribunal and Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal that had held the bank's SARFAESI...

Calcutta High Court Says IDFC First Bank Lost Right To Seek Arbitration After Waiting 11 Months In Loan Suit

The Calcutta High Court has dismissed IDFC First Bank Limited's appeal against a trial court order that refused to send a loan dispute to arbitration and struck off the bank's defence for failing to act within time. A division bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi upheld the order, finding that the bank had waited nearly 11 months after entering appearance in the suit before seeking arbitration. “In the case at hand, as noted above, the appellant/defendant came up...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of JFE Steel's Patent For Electrical Steel Sheet Manufacturing Method

The Delhi High Court has set aside a patent rejection order passed against JFE Steel Corporation. It held that the Controller of Patents should ordinarily not reject a patent application on a single technical ground while leaving other objections undecided, as such an approach could unfairly consume the limited 20-year patent term through repeated remands and appeals. A bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that patent applications must be considered as a whole. It said the Controller...

Treating Returns Of Allotment Penalty Provision To Exclude Adjudicating Officer's Discretion Unconstitutional: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has held that penalties for defective filings relating to the issuance of securities cannot be imposed through a mechanical computation exercise without examining the nature, gravity, and impact of the default. It also called arbitrary the multiplication of penalties based solely on the number of directors on a company's board, while modifying a ₹64 lakh penalty imposed on a Nidhi company and its directors. Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, hearing a petition by N.S.J.L...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside Royalty Order Against DVD Makers Over Philips' DVD Decoding Patent

The Delhi High Court has set aside a 2018 decree that had directed two DVD player makers to pay royalty to Dutch electronics company Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV for alleged infringement of its DVD decoding technology patent while also quashing punitive damages awarded against one of them.A Division Bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla allowed appeals by K.K. Bansal of Bhagirathi Electronics and his son Rajesh Bansal of Mangalam Technology, holding that Philips...

No Rectification For Debatable Points Under Section 254(2) Of Income Tax Act: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on 6 May held that only mistakes apparent from the record can be rectified under Section 254(2) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, and that debatable issues fall outside its scope. A Division Bench of Justices Shekhar B. Saraf and Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary dismissed the appeal filed by Abusaad Ahmad, upholding the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal's refusal to rectify its earlier order rejecting condonation of delay. It held: “In order to attract the power to rectify under...

Delhi High Court Restrains Unauthorised Use Of 'Bachpan Ka Pyar' Hook Line, Seeks Revenue Details From YouTubers

The Delhi High Court has granted temporary relief to Ivy Entertainment Private Limited in its copyright suit over the song Bachpan Ka Pyar and its hook line “jaane meri janeman bachpan ka pyar bhool nahi jaana re”. The court restrained certain YouTube channel operators and unidentified infringers from using it without authorisation, and directed three named channel operators to disclose revenue earned from exploiting the song. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the ex parte ad-interim order on...

Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Pirated Copies Of Sanjay Dutt-Starrer Aakhri Sawal

A day after its theatrical release, the Delhi High Court protected the Sanjay Dutt-starrer Aakhri Sawal from online piracy, directing Google and Telegram to take down infringing content within 72 hours and granting a dynamic+ injunction to tackle newly discovered infringing links during the pendency of the suit. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the ex parte ad interim order on May 16, 2026, on a suit filed by Nikhil Nanda Motion Pictures LLP, the film's production house, after it alleged that...

Calcutta High Court Refuses Arbitral Award Enforcement Over Indirect Unilateral Arbitrator Appointment

The Calcutta High Court has refused to enforce an ex parte arbitral award in favour of Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd., holding that a lender cannot indirectly secure the appointment of a sole arbitrator through an arbitral institution of its own choosing when the borrowers have neither consented to the process nor participated in it. Justice Gaurang Kanth held, “The law does not permit such a stratagem. The prohibition engrafted by Section 12(5) and the judicial decisions...