Equal Participation Of Students With Disabilities In Online Classes: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Directions To Centre To Issue Guidelines

The plea also seeks directions to the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and the Department of Higher Education to implement the provisions of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016.

"NGT, Being An Adjudicatory Body Of First Instance, Is Expected To Record Reasons For Decisions": Supreme Court

In one of the two matters, while remanding back an appeal against the grant of EC, the bench observed that there is 'no application of mind by the NGT' that the EC for expansion was not valid in view of the impact on marine biology and mangroves.

1993 Train Blasts Case: Supreme Court Asks TADA Court To Explain Reason For Delay In Framing Of Charges

The State of Rajasthan had submitted in its counter-affidavit that CBI had submitted a charge sheet against the accused in 1994 itself and that he was absconding for a period of 15 years until he was arrested.

A UP Town Without Some Courtrooms Since 2012: Allahabad High Court Directs UP Govt & HC To Construct & Start Same Within 6 Months

Noting that the question of opening of Courts at Lalganj Town in the Pratapgarh district has been lingering on, the Allahabad High Court recently directed the Uttar Pradesh Government and High Court administration to ensure that the Courts start functioning within 6 months.The Bench of Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh also directed the respondents to ensure...

Is State Funding To Madrasas & Other Religious Educational Institutions Consistent With Constitution's Secular Scheme?: Allahabad HC Seeks Govt Reply

The Allahabad High Court recently decided to consider a bunch of questions framed by it on issues related to religious educational institutions like Madrasa vis-a-vis the role of and interplay between the State Government and such institutions within the framework of the Constitution.The Bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot was hearing the plea of a Madrasa duly recognized by the Madrasa Board and...

"Arguments Have Substance": Allahabad High Court Stays Arrest Of Journalist Booked For Extortion, Forgery

The Allahabad High Court last week stayed the arrest of a journalist, Sharad Kumar Dwivedi, booked on the charge of Extortion and Forgery on a complaint made by the Vice President of Bhartiya Janta Party in District Hardoi.The Bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Saroj Yadav, prima facie observed that the arguments advanced by the Counsel for the Applicants have some substance and...

Nothing Like 'Criminal Kidney': Kerala High Court Says Criminal Antecedents Of Donor Irrelevant For Organ Donation

The Kerala High Court recently reiterated that the criminal antecedents of a donor are not criteria to be considered by the authorization committee for transplantation of human organs.Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan observed,"There is no organ in the human body like a criminal kidney or criminal liver or criminal heart! There is no difference between the organ of a person without...

Odisha-Andhra Pradesh Border Dispute Likely To Be Settled; Supreme Court Adjourns Contempt Plea

The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned for a month the contempt petition filed by State of Odisha against the State of Andhra Pradesh alleging that the latter has taken over certain villages belonging to the former in violation of a top court order.A Bench comprising Justice AM Khanwilkar, Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice JK Maheshwari granted the adjournment on request of Senior Advocate...

Karnataka High Court Allows Maternity Leave To Senior Resident Doctor Employed On Contract Basis

The Karnataka High Court recently quashed an order passed by the Joint Director, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Kalaburagi, denying maternity leave to a doctor employed with it on contract basis. Dr Swetha was employed as a Senior Resident in the Department of Medicine, ESIC College & Hospital, Kalaburgi on a contract basis. After 125 days of service, she submitted a...

Permitting Public Entity To Not Dispose Of RTI Application In Timely Manner Would Defeat The Purpose Of Right To Information Act: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday observed that permitting a public entity, Bureau of Pharma Public Sector Undertakings of India (BPPI) in the present case, to not dispose of an RTI application in a time bound manner would defeat the purpose of the Right to Information Act, 2005.The oral observation came from Justice Rekha Palli who was dealing with a petition filed by a company namely Cradle...

[Online Classes] Students Should Not Be Sidelined By Digital Divide: Kerala High Court Directs State To Assist Students Without Smartphones

The Kerala High Court recently directed the State and concerned authorities to take steps to ensure that economically weak students are not sidelined by the digital divide and that they are also able to pursue education like other children who have access to such gadgets. Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V added that they should look into the grievances projected by the students and then inform...

Section 482 CrPC - High Courts Should Not Pass 'Oral Directions' To Restrain Arrest; Such Directions Irregular : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that the procedure of 'oral direction' not to arrest an accused is irregular.The court observed that the text of a written order is what is binding and enforceable and such oral directions can cause serious misgivings."Absent a written record of what has transpired in the course of a judicial proceeding, it would set a dangerous precedent if the parties and...