Pranav B Prem The Kerala High Court on Wednesday acquitted all police officers who had been convicted for the custodial death of 28-year-old Udayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, setting aside the 2018 judgment of the CBI Special Court which had awarded death penalty to two policemen and imprisonment to their superior officers. A Division Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V and
Pranav B Prem The Ministry of Law and Justice on August 22 published the Income Tax Act, 2025, in the Official Gazette after it received the President's assent on 21st of this month [Thursday]. The Act consolidates and amends the law relating to income tax, repealing and replacing the Income-tax Act, 1961. It will come into force on April 1, 2026, as notified in the Gazette. The Act was passed by the Parliament in the current monsoon session.
Pranav B Prem The Kerala High Court Advocates’ Association (KHCAA) has addressed a letter to the Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court expressing its “strongest displeasure” over the appointment of two second-year law students as Amicus Curiae in a bail matter under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Pranav B Prem The Bar Council of India (BCI) has formally notified the Rules of Legal Education, Moratorium (Three-Year Moratorium) with respect to Centers of Legal Education, 2025, effectively prohibiting the establishment or approval of any new Center of Legal Education across India for a continuous period of three years. Under the Regulation, which will remain in force for three years from its comme...
Pranav B Prem A Bengaluru court has convicted former Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Lalit Bazad for demanding and accepting a bribe from a finance company under investigation in connection with Chinese Loan Apps, sentencing him to three years’ simple imprisonment and a fine of ₹5 lakh for corruption, along with one year’s simple imprisonment and a ₹50,000 fine for extortion. Both sent...
Pranav B Prem The Government of India has appointed 31 senior officers of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes), both retired and serving, as Technical Members (Centre) in the State Benches of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT). The appointments have been made under the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (Appointment and Conditions of Service of President a...
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