Supreme Court Legal News Consumer fora devoid of jurisdiction or power to accept the written statement beyond the period of 45 days. Reiterating what has been held in J.J. Merchant v. Shrinath Chaturvedi and New India Assurance Company Limited v. Hilli Multipurpose Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd. the Supreme Court held that consumer fora has no power to extend the time for filing a reply/written statement beyond the period prescribed under the Act. The application filed by the petitioners herein seeking...

Supreme Court Legal News State to compensate the land owners who has been dispossessed of the land by wrongly vesting it as forest land: Supreme Court In an appeal against the order of Hon’ble Division Bench of the Kerala High Court directing payment of compensation for the land directed to be restored to the land ownersthe Apex Court held that landowners entitled to just and proper compensation for the benefits arisen out of the lands while they were kept out of possession of the land b...