Recognised professional-course coaching qualifies for service-tax exemption despite being an initial or intermediate stage of education.

Statutory limits on Facilitation Council membership can render an arbitral award void and permit exceptional writ review.

Administrative fraud classification suspension does not halt independent criminal investigation or warrant-based searches into alleged economic offenc...

SEZ area de-notification reduces the notified Information Technology zone at Pallipuram, leaving a revised notified area.

SEZ de-notification rescinds the IT and IT-enabled services zone notification while preserving prior actions and omissions.

Form ITR-BN governs block-period returns after covered searches, requiring prescribed verification and treatment of provisional income.

Digital Section 49 warehousing enables online applications, query responses, status tracking and renewable storage-period extensions through ICEGATE.

Independent application of mind in show cause notices required quashing AI-generated notice and consequential proceedings.

Mandatory penalty-order timelines for detained goods require strict compliance, making delayed orders vulnerable to being quashed.

Parallel GST input tax credit proceedings require scrutiny of overlapping charges before separate state assessment is sustained.

Bona fide conduct in GST writ challenges is essential; undisclosed facts and belated duress claims defeated relief.

Return revision for omitted stock transfers required reconsideration, suspending related GST adverse-inference orders pending the revised return outco...

Embassy-dependent bail conditions were replaced where a foreign national could not obtain the required guarantee certificate.

Capacity-based pan masala cess failed equality review where deemed production treated materially different machine outputs alike.

GST on compulsory acquisition compensation is impermissible because eminent-domain acquisition is neither a supply of goods nor services.

GST appellate remand prohibition makes unauthorised remand a jurisdictional nullity, preserving writ review despite rectification and alternative-reme...

Arrest safeguards and transit remand requirements invalidated detention following inter-State transfer without communicated grounds or magistrate auth...

Arrest safeguards require disclosed grounds, relative intimation and transit remand, while duplicate prosecution under the CGST framework is unsustain...

Document Identification Number defects can invalidate GST assessments, with delayed challenges entertained conditionally where patent irregularities e...

Redemption premium on business-funding FCCBs is revenue expenditure and may be spread across the prescribed maturity period.