Supreme Court expands scope of exemption for service tax to include IIT and NIT under the definition of ‘governmental authority’
“Interpretative tools should be employed to make a statute workable and not to reach to a particular outcome.”
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[JEE Advanced 2022] Delhi High Court allows a meritorious EWS student to continue his course against a supernumerary seat provisionally allotted on default of seat allocation fee payment
The supernumerary seat was created by the respondents on their own and there was no direction for same in the interim order, thus, the caveat in the interim order that no equities would flow in favour of the petitioner, will not come in the way of the petitioner’s continuation against the said seat.
Caste-based discrimination in IIT-K| Continuation of proceedings can be a barrier in bringing back cordiality between faculty: Supreme Court disposes of criminal appeal
In a case related to caste-based discrimination against an associate professor of IIT-K by fellow faculty members, the Supreme Court played a conciliatory role and handled a very sensitive matter with equal sensitivity.