The Supreme Court of India has delivered a landmark ruling affirming that the 2016 amendments to the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988, operate retrospectively concerning the machinery for property confiscation. Setting aside a Karnataka High Court judgment, the Court restored a trial court’s order to reject a plaint in a property dispute where
Courts Must “Lift the Veil” Where Clever Pleadings Conceal Statutory Bar Under Benami Law: Supreme Court
