Steel-timber construction shuttering/formwork tariff classification dispute: essential character held steel, classified as shuttering under Heading 73...
Family-linked property purchases using fabricated loan agreements and benami-style arrangements held to be crime proceeds; attachment upheld, appeal d...
Charitable tree plantation and maintenance for environmental preservation treated as "charitable activity", exempt from GST under Notification 12/2017...
A pleaded pre existing fiduciary relationship can fall within the statutory exception to benami prohibition, and whether a transaction is genuine fiduciary trust or a disguised benami is a mixed question of law and fact requiring evidence; summary dismissal at the plaint stage was inappropriate where issues had been framed and the onus to establish the statutory bar rested on the respondent. The trial court's reliance on the mere use of the word "benami" in pleadings to refuse adjudication was reversed; the impugned order is set aside and the matter returned for trial to decide the factual foundation of the fiduciary claim.
A pleaded pre existing fiduciary relationship can fall within the statutory exception to benami prohibition, and whether a transaction is genuine fiduciary trust or a disguised benami is a mixed question of law and fact requiring evidence; summary dismissal at the plaint stage was inappropriate where issues had been framed and the onus to establish the statutory bar rested on the respondent. The trial court's reliance on the mere use of the word "benami" in pleadings to refuse adjudication was reversed; the impugned order is set aside and the matter returned for trial to decide the factual foundation of the fiduciary claim.
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