Delhi High Court Upholds Corrigendum Correcting GST Portal Order That Showed Proceedings Dropped

The Delhi High Court has upheld a corrigendum issued by a GST officer to correct an inadvertent error on the GST portal, where the portal-generated order showed that proceedings against a taxpayer had been dropped even though the accompanying adjudication order had confirmed a tax, interest and penalty demand.The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Shail Jain held that the corrigendum merely corrected an inconsistent recital in the original order and did not create a fresh demand.The...

Customs Failed To Quantify Duty, Can't Blame Traveller For Delay In Redeeming Gold: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a passenger cannot be faulted for failing to redeem confiscated gold within the stipulated period when the Customs Department itself failed to quantify and communicate the applicable duty, despite receiving his request within time.The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Vimal Kumar Yadav accordingly directed the Customs authorities to communicate the duty payable on 12 gold bars weighing 1,200 grams and release the gold upon payment of the duty,...

Delhi HC Quashes ₹76.72L CENVAT Refund Demand, Says Authority Could Not Rely On CESTAT-Set Aside Order

The Delhi High Court has quashed a ₹76.72 lakh CENVAT refund recovery demand against an engineering products manufacturer, holding that the adjudicating authority could not rely on an order after it had been set aside by the CESTAT.The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Shail Jain observed that the Additional Commissioner, while confirming the demand, failed to take into account the CESTAT's subsequent order expressly upholding the petitioner's entitlement to refund of ₹76.72 lakh...

Delhi High Court Asks RBI To Mediate PayU's Dispute Over ₹6.88 Crore IRF Deductions

On 14 September, the Delhi High Court directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to facilitate mediation between PayU Payments Private Limited and other stakeholders in a dispute concerning deductions from PayU's settlement accounts towards Interchange Reimbursement Fee (IRF) claims.Justice Subramonium Prasad also ordered the RBI to depute a senior officer to mediate between the parties and attempt to resolve the dispute within 30 days. The Bench held: “In the opinion of this Court,...

Delhi High Court Gives Bombay Shaving Company 1 Day To Revise Disputed Ad In Gillette's Disparagement Suit

Today, on 15 September, the Delhi High Court indicated that it would pass an order against Visage Lines Personal Care Private Limited, the parent company of Bombay Shaving Company, if the company failed to satisfactorily revise an advertisement that Gillette India alleged disparages its products. Justice Jyoti Singh gave the company until the afternoon of 16 September to return with revised versions of the advertisement. The judge made clear that the company could either modify the...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On ANI Appeal Against Rejection Of Interim Injunction Plea Against OpenAI

On Tuesday, 15 September, a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court issued notice on Asian New International (ANI)'s appeal against the rejection of its interim injunction application against OpenAI Inc. in its copyright infringement suit. Justices Avneesh Jhingan and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora sought OpenAI's response and listed the appeal for further hearing on 8 December. Background: ANI sued OpenAI in November 2024, alleging that ChatGPT was trained on its copyrighted news content...

Delhi High Court Sets Aside 7 ITAT Orders In Patanjali Ayurved Tax Appeals Over Procedural Lapses

The Delhi High Court on 10 September set aside seven orders passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in tax appeals involving Patanjali Ayurved Limited, citing procedural lapses, non-application of mind and undue haste in passing a common order in seven appeals. A Division Bench comprising Justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta set aside the orders after the Income Tax Department challenged four of them, noting that the seven appeals had been heard and pronounced on different...

Vimal Elaichi Ad: Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea Against Maharashtra FDA Notice To Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, Tiger Shroff

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea by VIMAL Elaichi master licensee P.B. Agro LLP challenging a Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notice issued to its brand ambassadors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, and Tiger Shroff over alleged surrogate promotion of pan masala.The court rejected P.B. Agro's argument that its Delhi connections gave the Delhi High Court territorial jurisdiction over the Maharashtra regulator's action.“The factum of petitioner operating its business from...

'No Pressing Hurry': Delhi High Court Sets Aside Income Tax Order For Curtailing Assessee's Reply Time

The Delhi High Court has set aside an order passed under Section 148A(d) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, after finding that the Assessing Officer (AO) curtailed the assessee's statutory opportunity to respond and subsequently ignored the reply that had been filed before the order was passed.The Division Bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta observed that the assessee was entitled to 30 days to file its reply, whereas the AO had practically reduced the time available to it to...

Delhi High Court Directs Firm To Pursue Appeal Against GST Registration Cancellation Rejection, Refuses Writ

The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a firm's writ petition challenging the rejection of its application for cancellation of GST registration. The authorities had alleged that the firm sought registration on the basis of documents whose authenticity could not be verified and had availed or passed Input Tax Credit (ITC) from non-existent firms.The Division Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta observed that the dispute involved examination of the material and...

Delhi High Court Protects Rajat Sharma's Personality Rights, Bars Trademark Misuse of INDIA TV

The Delhi High Court has recently permanently restrained several individuals and YouTube channels from infringing journalist Rajat Sharma's personality and publicity rights and INDIA TV's registered trademarks. The decree was passed against the specified parties in terms of the permanent-injunction reliefs sought in paragraphs 100(a) to (e) of the plaint.Justice Jyoti Singh passed the order on August 24, 2026. The court also allowed Sharma and INDIA TV to seek a declaration that the INDIA TV...

MSME Registration Cannot Revive Abandoned Arbitration Claims: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that a supplier cannot revive claims abandoned in an earlier arbitration merely by subsequently obtaining registration under the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that a party that did not challenge the termination of the earlier arbitration cannot use subsequent MSME registration to reopen the same claims.The court held, “Having not availed the same, in the opinion of this Court, a party cannot be...