Supreme Court Allows Himachal Government To Shift RERA Office From Shimla To Dharamshala, Stays HC Order

The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the Himachal Pradesh Government to shift the office of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) from Shimla to Dharamshala, staying the Himachal Pradesh High Court's order that had restrained the move. A Bench comprising the Chief Justice Suryakant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed that “operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed.” The Court further ordered, “The State is permitted to shift the office of RERA to the place of its choice...

Direction To Deposit Proceeds In Escrow Warranted Only In Limited Circumstances: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has recently held that a direction to deposit proceeds in an escrow account cannot be issued as a matter of routine in arbitration dispute. The court observed that such an arrangement is ordinarily warranted only where the underlying contract providing for escrow is subsisting or where there is material to show that the party receiving the money is likely to divert it and lacks sufficient assets to satisfy the award if it goes against it. A Bench of Justices Manoj Misra...

Supreme Court Directs NHAI To Deposit 50% of ₹1,019 Crore Award In Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway Dispute

The Supreme Court has recently modified a Delhi High Court order that had directed the National Highways Authority of India to deposit the entire arbitral award of over Rs. 1,019 crore in its dispute with Vadodara Mumbai Expressway PKG-08 Pvt. Ltd., and instead ordered it to deposit 50% of the total amount referred to in its order. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan was hearing special leave petitions arising out of the High Court's November 19, 2025 order passed in...

Karnataka High Court Quashes Rs 85.51 Crore IGST Demand On Salaries Paid To Foreign Nationals By Huawei India

The Karnataka High Court has recently quashed a show cause notice issued to Huawei Technologies India Private Limited demanding Rs. 85.51 crore in Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST), along with interest and penalty, on salaries paid to foreign national employees. Justice S R Krishna Kumar held that this was not a case of secondment at all, but one where Huawei India had a direct employer-employee relationship with the foreign nationals working for it. The Court made it clear that once...

Calcutta High Court Sets Aside Rejection Of UPL's Herbicide Patent For Denying Mandatory Hearing

The Calcutta High Court has recently set aside an order of the Controller of Patents rejecting UPL Limited's patent application for a herbicidal combination, holding that the authority committed a “serious procedural infirmity” by denying the company a mandatory hearing under Section 14 of the Patents Act and improperly issuing a composite order in examination and pre-grant opposition proceedings. Allowing the appeal, Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur ruled that examination proceedings under Sections...

Supreme Court Allows Product-To-Claim Mapping In Nivolumab Patent Dispute Between ER Squibb and Zydus

The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a special leave petition filed by E.R. Squibb and Sons LLC against Zydus Lifesciences Ltd in a patent dispute over the anti-cancer immunotherapy drug Nivolumab, arising from a January 12 judgment of the Delhi High Court's Division Bench.A Bench of the Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that since Zydus had already marketed its product and it was readily available in the market, the petitioners would be at liberty to undertake a...

Bombay High Court Issues Bailable Warrants Against 4 Effingut Directors In Copyright Contempt Case By PPL

The Bombay High Court recently issued bailable warrants against four directors of the Pune-based Effingut Breweries, a popular largest craft beer brand and owners of pubs and lounges operating in major cities like Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram etc for failing to appear before the court as ordered in a previous hearing. Single-judge Justice Sharmila Deshmukh was hearing a contempt petition against Effingut Breweries and its directors - Vishal Makar, Manish Tandon, Upesh Gulati and Monika Gulati...

Andhra Pradesh High Courts Rejects Sales Tax Exemption Claim Over Defective Form A-5

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 9 February, refused to interfere with orders withdrawing sales tax exemption on commission sales, holding that Form A-5 declarations not bearing the official seal of the assessing authority cannot be treated as valid under the Andhra Pradesh General Sales Tax Rules, 1957. A dealer files Form A-5 to claim sales tax exemption on commission sales. A Division Bench of Justice R. Raghunandan Rao and Justice T.C.D. Sekhar was hearing a tax revision case filed by ...

Conciliation Gets Award Status Under Arbitration Act Unless Expressly Excluded by Parties: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has recently restored a civil suit challenging a family partition deed and an alleged conciliation award, observing that any conciliation conducted in accordance with Part III of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 would attain the status and effect of an award unless the parties have expressly agreed to exclude its application. “On a reading of Section 61, any conciliation between two parties brought about by following the procedure in Part III of the Act of 1996 would...

Karnataka High Court Invokes Writ Jurisdiction In RERA Matter To Enable Consideration Of Developer's Objections

The Karnataka High Court has recently held that the existence of an appellate remedy does not prevent it from exercising writ jurisdiction in a real estate dispute where due opportunity has not been afforded to one of the parties. The court set aside a Karnataka Real Estate Regulatory Authority order directing Embassy One Developers Pvt Ltd to pay over Rs. 4.24 crore as delay interest without considering its objections. Justice B. M. Shyam Prasad said, “An alternative remedy need not always...

Bank Can Exercise Lien On Guarantor's Salary, Section 60 CPC Not Applicable: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on 9 February held that a bank is entitled to exercise its right of lien over a guarantor's salary account. It clarified that protection under Section 60(1)(i) CPC does not restrict the bank's substantive right. A Division Bench of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice Muralee Krishna S, while deciding cross appeals filed by Canara Bank and the guarantor, Agi Kumar, allowed the bank's appeal and set aside the single judge's direction limiting the lien. The judges...

Delhi High Court Dismisses Revenue Appeals Against ITAT Order In Mahagun TDS Dispute Over NOIDA Lease Rent

The Delhi High Court has dismissed three appeals filed by the Income Tax Department challenging orders of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) that had granted relief to Mahagun developers in a long-running dispute over deduction of tax at source (TDS) on lease rent payments made to the NOIDA Authority.A Division Bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta and Justice Vinod Kumar rejected the appeals after noting that the controversy was squarely covered by its earlier ruling in Rajesh Projects (India)...