Important Legal Updates in India 13th December, 2017

Important Legal Updates in India
13th December, 2017

Supreme Court has stayed an order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) that allowed the government to take control of Unitech Ltd by suspending its board of directors.
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Supreme Court has allowed hotels and restaurants to sell bottled water and other packaged products at above the maximum retail price, saying they also render a service and cannot be governed by the Legal Metrology Act.
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Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the manner in which the government had approached the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the case of Unitech Ltd and the tribunal’s order allowing the government to take control of the company.
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Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on a plea by death row convict Mukesh Singh seeking review of the top court judgment upholding his death sentence in the 16 December, 2012, New Delhi gangrape case.
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Delhi High Court has directed the DG (Prisons), the city government and the police to implement a system which would put in public domain the records of the undertrials lodged in jails.
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Delhi High Court has asked the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to state whether it fell under the ambit of the Right to Information Act in cases where information about corruption or human rights violation is sought from it.
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Delhi High Court has held that arbitration and SARFAESI proceedings can be resorted to simultaneously for recovery of loan arrears.
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Delhi High Court has dismissed Arvind Kejriwal's plea to strike down Arun Jaitley's reply filed in response to his written submission in the second Rs 10 crore defamation suit against the Chief Minister.
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Bombay high court has said that "imprudent acts of investigators (police)" were "overburdening criminal courts" and summoned a joint police commissioner on December 20 to explain what steps, if any, are taken to ensure investigations are "honestly done''.
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Bombay High Court has directed the Mumbai University to file a reply justifying its decision to not provide supplements or additional answer sheets to students during exams.


13th December, 2017