The Andhra Pradesh High Court has upheld the dismissal of a writ petition challenging the selection of bidders for a diet-supply tender at Government General Hospital, Ongole, after finding the appellant had suppressed the existence of an earlier, dismissed writ petition concerning the same tender.
Madras High Court upholds a divorce granted on grounds of cruelty, holding that a wife's unjustified pressure on her husband — the only son of his parents — to set up a separate residence, combined with frequent, unexplained visits to her maternal home, amounted to cruelty.
Supreme Court holds that service rendered on contract, ad hoc, daily-wage or work-charge basis before regularisation must count as qualifying service for pension, and that employees who entered service before 2004 but were regularised later can still fall under the older pension scheme.
Mandatory pre-deposit under GST Act before filing appeal does not violate Article 14 or Article 19(1)(g). Doctrine of legitimate expectation does not apply to tax statutes prospectively amended by Parliament.