Tribunal and commission updates from India's specialist legal forums.
APTEL upheld force majeure relief for grid connectivity and Jat agitation delays but disallowed 11 days granted for a civil court stay order, finding no valid notice under the Implementation Agreement.
Singla Property Dealers held its FM transmission equipment at All India Radio, Hissar for over six years after its Grant of Permission Agreement was terminated in 2009.
TDSAT allows Hathway Digital's petition against a West Bengal local cable operator that swapped 123 STBs after migrating to a competing MSO without notice.
TDSAT allows MSO Kal Cables' petition, ordering Chennai LCO Kurinji Network to pay Rs 5.62 lakh for unreturned STBs and Rs 1.68 lakh for premature de-linking.
TDSAT held the second placement agreement binding on Direct News, rejecting its denial of the contract and awarding Rs 29.97 lakh with 9% simple interest.
APTEL found DERC violated natural justice by disallowing Rs 17.43 crore in other business expenses using an undisclosed auditor's report, and set aside a Rs 1.60 crore water charges disallowance.
APTEL has allowed TSECL's appeal, holding that time and cost overruns attributable to EPC contractor BHEL and gas supplier ONGC cannot be loaded onto consumers through tariff.
APTEL allows both appeals by Everest Power, remanding O&M baseline determination and setting aside capital expenditure disallowances totalling over Rs. 2.5 crores for the 100 MW Malana-II project.
NCLAT holds a 2012 bank security interest registered with ROC defeats a 2019 statutory tax lien; Rainbow Papers does not override chronological priority under IBC Section 52.
The Competition Commission found the Director General's methodology flawed on room rent, diagnostics, consumables and medicines, and declined to delineate a separate aftermarket for admitted patients.
ITAT Delhi Bench G dismissed Revenue's appeals across multiple years for Pilot Industries and Ardee Industries, deleting additions on purchases and warranty expenses while quashing assessments for breach of Section 148B.
The National Commission held that a State Consumer Commission has no power to return complaints and directed revival of five flat-buyer cases pending since 2018.
After a Supreme Court remand and nearly three decades of litigation, NCDRC splits its verdict on two personal accident policies covering the 1997 road-accident death of Kishori Lal Sharan Garg.
