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Supreme Court on Wednesday instructed the Centre to refrain from employing "threat and coercion" tactics during search and seizure operations aimed at recovering Goods and Services Tax (GST) from traders. The bench, comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh, and Bela M Trivedi, who are reviewing different sections of the GST Act, emphasised that the law does not grant authorities the power to use force to collect outstanding dues. «There is no power under the Act to compel any person to pay the tax liability during the search and seizures. Request your department to ensure that the payment is made voluntarily without any use of force. A period of three to four days must be provided to the accused individual to seek advice, contemplate, and settle the liability. It should be voluntary and there should not be use of any threat or coercion,» the bench told Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, appearing for the Centre. Raju did not rule out the possibility of using force in the past but mentioned that usually the payment during search and seizure is voluntary.

Delhi Liquor Policy case. Earlier during the hearing, the Court also allowed K Kavitha to meet her two sons and other family members in the courtroom, news agency ANI reported. Speaking to the media while leaving the courtroom, Kavitha said, “We are fighting.

Supreme Court withdrew their pleas on Thursday, saying they have decided to move appropriate forums. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal, which had on Wednesday said it will not allow «proxy litigation» to challenge the vires of the anti-terror law UAPA, allowed as many as eight petitions to be withdrawn, after the petitioners' counsels said they would like to approach the jurisdictional high courts for relief. The bench had asked the counsel for petitioners to seek instruction by Thursday whether they want to approach the high court to quash the FIR in UAPA cases or they want to challenge the vires of the law in the top court. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for three civil society members, including a journalist, who were booked under the anti-terror law by Tripura Police in 2021 over their social media posts on riots in the state, said he has received instructions from his clients to withdraw the petitions.

Bar and Bench reported. The bench has now referred the matter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI). The plea filed by Chandrababu Naidu had challenged the high court order refusing to quash the FIR against the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in the Skill Development Corporation scam case.

Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned for four weeks the hearing on a plea filed by former JNU student Umar Khalid seeking bail in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi said the matter requires a detailed hearing. «In this matter, we will have to go document-by-document.

An insurance claim can be rejected if the policy has lapsed on account of non-payment of premium, said the Supreme Court which stressed that the terms of an insurance policy have to be strictly interpreted.