Category: Supreme Court/High Court related

The CBDT has revealed in the Central Action Plan 2018 that the total demand stayed by Courts/ITAT as on 01.04.2018 is a whopping sum of Rs. 87,035 crore. It is pointed out that the appeals have been pending for several years and Departmental Representatives/Counsel are unable to press for disposal in the absence of adequate resources and support from the field formations. In order to tackle the back-log of litigation, the CBDT has formulated a concerted and focused strategy. The CBDT has also stipulated time limits within which the targets are required to be completed

The CBDT is not content with enhancing the monetary limits for maintainability of appeals of the department. All Principal CsIT have been directed to ‘personally ensure’ that all appeals falling below the specified limits are withdrawn by 20th August 2018. The PCsIT have been directed to send a report giving details of their compliance

A new Circuit Bench at Varanasi has been set up to fulfill the promise made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, the ITAT Bar Association, Allahabad, has challenged the setting up of the Circuit Bench on the ground inter alia that the pendency at Varanasi is very low and that unnecessary expenditure will be incurred on the infrastructure. It is also claimed that there is an acute shortage of Members at the Allahabad Bench and that a large number of cases are pending therein

In the latest move, a Supreme Court Bench, comprising of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, has agreed in principle that live streaming of court proceedings is permissible and feasible.

Justice S J Vazifdar retired from the office of Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on 3rd May 2018. The learned Judge was given a warm farewell by the members of the Bar and the staff of the Court. As the attached video shows, hundreds of people assembled on the ramp overlooking the portico and cheered the learned Judge

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Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph have written a stinker of a letter to the Chief Justice of India Deepak Misra raising several serious grievances. This letter was released by the four judges in a press conference

The Tax Bench of the Hon’ble Bombay High Court with effect from 4th January 2018 is as follows

The Tax Bench of the Hon’ble Bombay High Court with effect from 11th December 2017 is as follows

The Tax Bench of the Hon’ble Bombay High Court with effect from 3rd October 2017 is as follows

The Constitution of the Bombay High Court’s Tax Bench w.e.f 04.09.2017 is as follows