Tribunal and commission updates from India's specialist legal forums.
The solar developer paid Rs 11.75 crore in grid connectivity charges instead of Rs 9.40 crore after Rajasthan raised the rate five days past the bid deadline, but watched two co-respondents claim the increase as change in law and said nothing until appeal.
The National Commission held that an offer made nearly 27 months after the fire, followed by a letter closing the claim when Sapphire Papers Mill would not sign, left the mill no free choice; it then found the stock had never been underinsured.
TDSAT held wilful disobedience of its status quo order unproved against Lytus Sri Sai Networks, its directors and GTPL Hathway, but ordered undertakings within three weeks and a charge on any operator assets GTPL took over after 24 July 2026 to secure the Zee claim.
Justice Mohammad Faiz Alam Khan and Naresh Salecha dismissed five appeals against the Mastana Foods resolution plan, holding that the e-auction date fixes the bid and that a unilateral second plan is non-responsive.
Justice Ram Krishna Gautam decreed the Sony petition with costs, holding that grievances about direct-to-consumer pricing by a broadcaster do not answer an admitted and never-disputed subscription liability.
Justice Mohammad Faiz Alam Khan and Arun Baroka upheld the rejection of a ₹7 crore plan for an asset holding company, the order for liquidation, and an investigation into an assignment made to an ARC during the insolvency.
Dr Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha and Satendra Vikram Singh sustained a ₹63.69 lakh excise demand on sewage and drainage pumps but set aside the penalty, the department having itself pushed the assessee onto the concessional rate.
Resolving a split at the Chennai bench, Naresh Salecha held that the confidentiality undertaking recognised in Vijay Kumar Jain is how a suspended board gets access to a resolution plan, not a formality that past practice can waive.
Sheo Kumar Singh and Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi disposed of a letter petition from a sarpanch on compliance reports, directing periodic monitoring of plantation and strict adherence to the sand mining guidelines.
A three-member Bench set aside both the dismissal of an oppression petition and an omnibus perjury finding, holding that an allegation carrying penal consequences requires notice, specific findings and a reasoned determination.
Dr Rachna Gupta and Hemambika R. Priya set aside a demand of ₹1.06 crore, holding that IGCR obligations are procedural where substantive entitlement to the exemption is not in doubt.
AVM J. Rajendra and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta dismissed a complaint over a cancelled flat at Lodha Marquise, a municipal certificate having confirmed the construction stage on which the disputed demand was raised.
Justice Mohammad Faiz Alam Khan and Naresh Salecha held that a pending money-laundering investigation and an attachment of assets do not make a resolution applicant ineligible under Section 29A, which is triggered by conviction.
Virender Bhat and Ajay Talegaonkar upheld pooled recovery of transmission charges for assets at Tuticorin, finding the lines carry far more than the long-term access they were challenged over.
AVM J. Rajendra and Justice Saroj Yadav set aside concurrent findings for the claimants, holding that neither forum below had engaged with a hospital record of cardiac treatment three years before the policy.
The appellate tribunal disposed of applications seeking replacement of IRP Santanu T. Ray, directing the suspended director to first approach NCLT, with a two-week disposal request.
SREI Equipment Finance withdrew its challenge to the approved resolution plan of Nirmal Lifestyle (Mulund) after the successful resolution applicant confirmed the disputed mortgaged property was excluded.
NCLAT's Principal Bench allowed exclusion of 87 days from the CIRP timeline of Senior Builders Ltd., reversing an NCLT order that had rejected the new Resolution Professional's application.
The NGT Western Zone Bench dismissed Spacebound Web Labs' appeal against the Goa Pollution Control Board's forfeiture of a Rs 10 lakh security deposit over noise limit breaches at the 2022 Sunburn Music Festival.
The NGT Western Zone Bench, Pune, dismissed a decade-old appeal against the 2016 environmental clearance for the 274-km Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway Phase I, finding no proved infirmity in the public consultation process.
The National Green Tribunal's Western Zone Bench upheld a demolition order for illegal coastal structures in Mandrem, Goa, after Gram Panchayat records confirmed the appellant's documents were never issued.
ITAT Hyderabad quashes Section 148 notices for assessment years 2016-17 to 2019-20 for want of Section 149(1)(b) conditions, while partly sustaining additions on unaccounted cash receipts.
ITAT Hyderabad set aside Section 148 notices for three years as barred by limitation, and directed the AO to restrict additions to entries supported by corroborative evidence.
The Jodhpur Bench followed Supreme Court precedent in Jindal Steel to hold that SEB consumer rates, not generation-company tariffs, are the correct benchmark for captive power transfer pricing under section 80-IA.
