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Posted On: 17 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION As per the Income Tax Act, 1961 when the Assessing Officer has a reason to believe that any income which is chargeable to tax has escaped assessment for any assessment year, he has the power to reassess such income and any other income which comes to his notice subsequently in the course of the proceeding.
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Posted On: 16 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court has dismissed pleas to review the judgement that annulled the Modi Government’s Electoral Bonds Scheme, affirming no apparent error in the initial ruling, thereby upholding the decision to scrap the electoral bonds scheme. The request to list the petitions in the open court was also denied, asserting the issue falls within the legislative and executive policy.
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Posted On: 16 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION In the view of recent Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, A new plea was filed in the Supreme Court asking for the direction to the Centre to restore the statehood of the Jammu and Kashmir in two months. They pleaded that non restoration of the statehood is the violation of Federalism.
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Posted On: 16 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION The Bombay High Court clarified that recording the conversation within the premises of the police station does not violate any provision in the Official Secrets Act, 1923 giving a much required clarity in relation to a citizen’s right.
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Posted On: 15 October, 2024
BACKGROUND- After a Nashik court recently summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case related to his alleged objectionable remarks against late Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a Pune court has also issued summons to him in a separate defamation case. A special court in Pune has summoned Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case filed by the grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, accusing the Congress leader of making objectionable remarks against the Hindutva ideologue. Last month, the case was transferred to the special court for MPs and MLAs from the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court.
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Posted On: 15 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION The issue of marital rape and the specific defense of marital rape exemption has been raising a lot of public and legal awareness in India. This exception was recently taken to the Supreme Court with activists and petitioners calling for this provision to be expunged as archaic while the Centre has elected to fight for this provision. This paper focuses on the background, the arguments and the controversy of the marital rape exception in an attempt to provide a glimpse of what might prove to be one of the biggest shifts in the Indian Criminal law
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Posted On: 15 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION This controversial debate regarding the criminalizing of marital rape continues to provoke heated debate in legal and social circles. Despite years of mounting pressure from all possible advocacy groups and legal experts, the central government is not inclined to bend on its stance against criminalizing marital rape. The justification for this rejection is that the criminalization of marital rape may come to disturb the very institution of marriage, which would thus affect the sanctity of marital relationships.
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Posted On: 14 October, 2024
ABSTRACT Under the Indian Constitution, there is a two-fold distribution of legislative powers, that includes, with respect to territory, and with respect to subject matter. With respect to subject matter, the Indian Constitution, adopts a distribution scheme by placing the legislative powers in any of the three lists prescribed, i.e., the Union List, the State List, and the Concurrent List. Art. 246 of the constitution, deals with the distribution of legislative powers between the central government and the state governments.
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Posted On: 11 October, 2024
ABSTRACT- The Competition Act, 2002 (the "Act") was formulated with the intent to address the lacuna in the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 and to prevent inequity, while sustaining the competition, in the Indian market and ensure free and ethical trade carried on by the participants in the market.
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Posted On: 11 October, 2024
INTRODUCTION In the light of a recent incident that occurred, the Bombay High Court took suo motu cognizance of a disturbing case that involved two kindergarten girls at a school which is in Badlapur, Thane on August 22, 2024. The court expressed serious concerns in the delaying of the lodging of FIR by the Badlapur police as well as in its lapses in conducting the preliminary investigation. The court comprised of comprising Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan, who voiced their lament over the grave incident that it happened within the premises of a school, which raises questions about the safety of schools and the immediate response of the police officers in handling cases of sexual offences that involves minors should be given sensitization and procedural adherence.
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