Tag: Supreme Court
Pre-deposit mandatory under Customs Act
A bench comprising Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, in the case of Chander Sekhar Jha v Union of India and Anr, dismissed an appeal assailing the order of the Calcutta High Court regarding a gold smuggling charge
CCI’s hands tied in debt trustee dispute
India’s antitrust probe into the alleged collusion over fees charged by debt trustees of the State Bank of India, Axis Bank and IDBI Bank took a back seat following an intervention by the Bombay High Court after the banks challenged the jurisdiction of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in April this year
No escape
Among many things, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has put the spotlight on cryptocurrency. It is gaining global acceptance based on the sheer volume of donations flooding into war-torn Ukraine in the form of cryptocurrency, largely to finance military support. The virtual digital asset class is no longer seen as a shady “black-market” transaction owing to reliance upon it in this geopolitical and humanitarian crisis
Overstepping the mark
The requirement to submit a test licence in the drugs and cosmetics rules goes beyond the ambit of the Parent Act, and is a hindrance to R&D for pharma companies, writes Syngene International's Shreekanth Katti