Legal
Vigilance sleuths in Bhubaneshwar Orissa, have alleged that nine industrial units were found to be involved in the crime of evading taxes. Some prominent names that have come up were Jindal Stainless Limited, Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Visa Steel Rathi Steel and Power Limited and Bhusan Power and Steel Limited amongst others. The report was made [...] Continue Reading »
Nowhere has the footsteps of corruption left unattended, in Mumbai road works corruption is protruding its roots and seems to be never ending. The road contractors are seemed to be laying roads midst potholes prevailing which is left unattended since ages. Nearly 550 new minor roads in the city have unattended potholes. South of Mumbai [...] Continue Reading »
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Pune, investigating on the twenty nine Urban Land Ceiling (ULC) certificate scam cases as per the direction of the Bombay high court has arrested real estate agent Sujay Chopade, builder Sharad Kokate and conspirator Atul Panse. The trio were allegedly involved in unscrupulous land deals. Investigations done by the CID [...] Continue Reading »
The Federation of Sector Welfare Associations Chandigarh (FOSWAC) has hailed the Supreme Court’s decree that any immovable property transferred under the General Power of Attorney (GPA) will be considered illegal. The Federation observed that the decree will hit hard to unscrupulous property transactions. In its observation it also mentioned that the law will serve to generate [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court of India has announced that the sale of immovable property under General Power of Attorney (GPA) will be considered illegal and will attract strict punishments. The decree might actually lead to a 20 percent downfall in the value of properties. The decision might have implications in resale and secondary properties. The decision will not [...] Continue Reading »
The prevention degradation of the a heritage building Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, the Supreme Court has ordered that the bus terminus should be relocated from Esplanade to preserve the city’s heritage and also to control pollution. The apex court has uphold the decision by Calcutta high court decree to shift the bus terminus from Esplanade. The [...] Continue Reading »
The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has dismissed a petition to not to name Mullanpur as New Chandinagar. The bench in its observation said orally that there is no harm in the name citing and also there are similar cases in rest of a India like Mumbai named as Navi Mumbai. However the statement [...] Continue Reading »
In Chennai a land at Arumbakkam was sold to a third party without the knowledge of the land owner and also bank loan was sanctioned to this illegal property dealing. The Madras high court directed the city police officials to take up the case seriously and take immediate action on the property dealers. This illegal property [...] Continue Reading »
The Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice T S Sivagnanam of Madras high court (MHC), who had directed the authorities to file individual affidavits on illegal construction by November 1st, 2011 reported saying that the status report filed recently was nothing but an eyewash in their point of view. The Chennai city civic authorities [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) officials recently sealed nearly 242 commercial properties in the Ahmedabad city. The shop owners were restrained who defaulted their property tax and this continued for ten consecutive days. East, west and new west zone commercial properties were sealed and during the sealing drive nearly 1,600 properties in the city were found defaulting the [...] Continue Reading »
