Tribunal and commission updates from India's specialist legal forums.
A newspaper report of hundreds of trees axed and a hillside dug up for a housing colony on Omkareshwar Road led the Green Tribunal to act on its own. A joint committee traced every tree to a Gram Panchayat permission. The Bhopal bench closed the case and gave the State Pollution Control Board 30 days to decide the colony consent application.
DGGI Surat said target and non-target bonuses paid to Monarch Cars by Chevrolet Sales India were consideration for sales-related services. The Ahmedabad bench follows its Down Town Motors ruling on a Hyundai dealer: such payments reduce the purchase price of cars and are not a service. The Rs 1 lakh penalty on the dealer general manager also goes.
CERC ordered NHDC to refund Madhya Pradesh Rs 156.13 crore of Secondary Energy Charges after a corrigendum changed a unit of water measurement in the Indira Sagar clearance of 1984. The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity stays the payment direction, finding prima facie that settled tariffs cannot be rewritten retrospectively on that basis.
Customs reclassified 60 spools imported for a rolling mill as steel articles, denied the EPCG exemption and demanded Rs 3,07,21,816 with an equal penalty and a Rs 50 lakh fine. The Chandigarh bench holds that goods the DGFT licence treats as capital goods stay exempt whatever heading Customs prefers, and never rules on the heading.
The NCLT Indore admitted a Section 9 petition against Flexituff Technology International because it had sent a letter and four post-dated cheques for a debit note raised on its subsidiary. The Principal Bench holds the letter was no novation, the business transfer agreement left such liabilities with the subsidiary, and the debt was disputed.
MERC struck the IXORA substation and eight Parel bays off Tata Power's transmission cost because no one drew power from them. The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity holds that readiness for service, not actual use, is what counts, and sends the question of who should pay for the idle assets back to the State Commission.
Karnataka commercial tax officers assessed Doshion in February 2026 and filed their claim 896 days after the last date fixed by the liquidator. The Principal Bench holds that an assessment after the liquidation commencement date neither restarts the 30-day claim window nor excuses the silence since November 2023.
After a Supreme Court remand ordering sequential valuation, the Principal Commissioner accepted the declared prices of identical and similar decorative lights from unrelated suppliers in Spain and China yet re-valued the UK consignments by the deductive method. The Tribunal found no attempt to show that the related-party link had affected the price, and set
The Vilsons Roofing plan paid every admitted provident fund rupee upfront, the Principal Bench found. The unpaid Rs 4,56,121 was the rejected and under-verification slice that EPFO never challenged under Section 60(5), and a CIRP regulation cannot enlarge a period fixed by Parliament.
Clause 6 of a bulk power transmission agreement secures construction and nothing else, so a guarantee kept alive for more than a decade after a 1,400 MW Odisha plant was built cannot be held hostage to the letter of credit under Clause 2, the Tribunal held. The generator that never sought a stay, though, bears its own renewal costs.
A PPA runs from the date the Commission approves it, not the date it is signed, and a force majeure extension under Article 2.5.4 is capped at three months, the Tribunal held. With nothing on record on whether the 2 MW Tumkur project had crystallised its capital cost by 25 February 2017, the tariff goes back to KERC for a one-month inquiry while liquidated d
Scrap sales and logistics charges are not services, but cancellation fees, insurance commission and mobile-van reimbursements are, the Allahabad bench held, cutting the taxable base from Rs 52 lakh to Rs 12 lakh. It then threw out the Rs 13,00,287 CENVAT demand as built on a half comparison and held that an interpretational dispute could not carry the extend
The National Commission had to ask the Punjab government how many square yards make an acre in Zirakpur before it could rule on a one-acre shortfall claim against G.S. Promoters. The answer, two different karams in the same sub-tehsil, left the project at 4.81 acres and the society with notional compensation for the admitted 0.19 acre gap.
Resolution plans approved for both Jaiprakash Associates and Jaypee Infratech bind every allottee, the Commission held, rejecting the plea that consumer remedies survive Section 31 of the IBC and sending each buyer to whichever plan lists their tower. Only the right to come back if the plans are not implemented is kept alive.
Wave Global Educational Services sold its coaching business to Corsalite for Rs 3 crore in July 2017 and was in liquidation by 2021. The Principal Bench finds the purchaser was the alter ego of its three directors, who took every share within four months, and trims the payment direction to them and Corsalite alone.
Vasu Buildcon said a limited remand on the Noida Authority claim could not reopen its CoC-approved plan for IVR Prime IT SEZ. The Principal Bench holds that a plan never approved under Section 31, remitted and then voted down, leaves the CoC free to return to the market. The plea of the suspended director that assignee homebuyers rigged the vote also fails.
Ansal Housing won on car parking charges and a blanket bar on demands, but the National Commission held that handing over Flat 804 in Ansal Heights did not end the deficiency while no occupancy certificate had been obtained, and moulded relief for a buyer who had not appealed.
Applying Nitendra Kumar Tomer, a three-member bench holds that a cause-title amendment allowed nearly three months after the NCLT Cuttack admission order could not revive an incompetent appeal, and finds no pre-existing dispute over HDPE pond liner supplied for the NTPC Badarpur Eco Park.
Rs 1.39 crore paid under a 2014 share purchase MOU was never disbursed for the time value of money, a three-member bench holds, even though Ganpati Global credited interest and deducted TDS on it for four years without paying a rupee.
The National Commission found the Chitresh Cold Storage complaint within time, held that utmost good faith required Oriental Insurance to offer a non-standard settlement for a genuine but poorly documented loss, and cut the usual 75 per cent to 70 for the lapses of the insured.
Regulation 35.2 of the GERC MYT Regulations, 2024 lets only a generator volunteer a lower return on equity, the Tribunal held, setting aside the 11 per cent cap and permanent undertaking GERC attached to extending the PPAs of 2,912 MW of transferred stations and Wanakbori Unit 7 to 2030.
NCLAT holds that a resolution professional removed from the personal insolvency of a Mahavir Roads guarantor has no interest left in appeals filed in that role, reprimands him for his conduct, and records that he hid two NCLT orders to obtain an interim stay.
Thirteen years after a fire gutted an exclusive Reebok outlet in Bihar, the National Commission rejected the fraud, suppression and limitation pleas raised by National Insurance, awarded the sum the insurer had itself assessed, and refused the Rs 49 lakh franchise income claim.
Once the Delhi High Court struck down the 2018 per port transaction charge amendment, the 2009 rate of Rs 19 governed the interregnum from 31 January 2018 to 8 March 2019, TDSAT held, passing a preliminary decree against BSNL with 9 per cent simple interest and two months to pay.
