The ITAT Mumbai ruled in favour of Aishwarya Bachchan, allowing a Rs 1.49 crore interest deduction claimed on a loan taken to invest in a venture capital fund. The Income Tax Department had denied the deduction, but the tribunal held that similar past claims were accepted and that there was enough evidence showing the borrowed money was used to generate income.
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that a divorced daughter may claim her late father’s family pension if she was financially dependent on him during his lifetime, even when the divorce became final after his death. The court cited a government memo and stressed the pension rules’ beneficial purpose, focusing on dependency and marital breakdown before the father’s death.
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The Tripura High Court denied a daughter her father’s family pension after her divorce was finalized years later. The court held that eligibility for family pension must be present at the time of the pensioner’s death, not later. Her father died in 2018, but her divorce was finalized in 2021—after which she sought the pension.
After her husband died, a mother was pushed out of her family home by her sons. She lost an eviction effort under the Senior Citizens Act, but the Calcutta High Court still ensured she would receive Rs 25,000 per month as maintenance. The ruling stressed tribunals can only issue maintenance orders, not property eviction.
The Uttarakhand High Court has quashed a 31-year-old government order that had halted the hiring of contract workers at ONGC. The court ruled the original notification was issued without proper consultation and said it lacked a strong factual basis. The decision directly reshapes ONGC’s contracting and hiring practices after ONGC itself approached the court.
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