Latest legal updates 06.11.2017

LATEST LEGAL UPDATES:-

Supreme Court has restrained all deemed universities across the country from continuing any distance learning courses from the academic year 2018-19 without prior approval of the regulatory authorities and ordered a CBI probe into granting of retrospective approvals to four of them.

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Supreme Court has upheld a Chhattisgarh High Court judgment that allowed legal heirs of the complainant to prosecute the petition before the high court.

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Supreme Court has directed the Registry to ensure that all cases filed before it against an acquittal must mention the period of custody undergone by the accused.

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Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea challenging Tamil Nadu government's decision to set up a one-man Commission to probe death of AIADMK Chief and former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

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Chhattisgarh High Court has held that right to property is not only constitutional right, but also human right and it can be deprived of only by the authority of law.

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Punjab & Haryana High Court has allowed the petitioner to be granted child care leave despite the plea of the government that there were insufficient number of medical specialists available in the hospital, with only one other medical specialist available other than the petitioner.

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Delhi High Court has directed the authorities to cancel the allotment of Chambers that have been left unutilized in District Courts at Dwarka.

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Delhi High Court has quashed reassessment order of the revenue by holding that Assessing Officer cannot disallow any claim made by the assessee by invoking Section 14A read with Rule 8D merely on ground of ‘change of opinion’.

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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Bangalore has ruled that if the gift is invalid then no addition can be done in respect of the same under the provisions of the Income Tax Act since assessee is not even owner of any property.

*6th November, 2017*