A five-judge constitutional bench of CJI RM Lodha, AK Patnaik, Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, Dipak Misra and FM Ibrahim Kalifulla has overruled the Supreme Court’s earlier Kone Elevators decision in a four-to-one majority against Kalifulla. The majority opinion, written by Misra, ruled that the sale ...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia (whose smartphone business is in the process of being sold to Microsoft though held up by a Rs 3,500 crore guarantee imposed by the Supreme Court in another transfer tax case) has filed a writ in the Madras high court to contest a claim by the Tamil Nadu VAT departme...