"Clear Failure Of Authorities In Upholding Citizens' Right To Clean Environment": NGT Pulls Up Haryana State For Sewage Overflow On National Highway

The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the State of Haryana for its failure to take remedial measures for controlling sewage overflow on National Highway-19 after observing that the State authorities had failed in upholding citizen's right to clean environment.The Tribunal was dealing with a case regarding overflowing of sewage from Seekri village in Faridabad District in Haryana on...

'School Cannot Be Permitted To Be Shylock': Kerala High Court Issues Notice To School On Plea Against Denial Of Access To Online Classes Due To Non-Payment Of Fee

A plea filed before the Kerala High Court on Monday regarding a School debarring a student from attending online classes and charged an exorbitant late fee, remarked that the school cannot be permitted to be a Shylock. Justice Anu Sivaraman posted the matter to next week for further consideration. The petitioner's daughter was a student promoted to class VI, and was debarred from attending...

Govt. Land Encroachment- "Why Public Land Protection Cell Not Formed At Every District Level?": MP High Court Asks State

In view of the rising number of pleas files before the Court in connection with encroachment on government lands, the Madhya Pradesh High Court earlier this month sought an explanation from the State as to why the committee nomenclatured as Public Land Protection Cell has not yet been constituted at every district level.The bench of Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Deepak Kumar Agarwal was...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Declares Strike By Nurses As illegal, Asks Govt. To Consider Their Demands 'Sympathetically'

Condemning the action of nurses to go on strike at a time when the country has still not been able to come out of the ill effects of the second wave of COVID-19, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has declared the strike of nurses in the State as illegal.This direction comes on the plea filed by Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch inter alia with a prayer that the strike by nurses in the State called...

SC Grants Protection From Coercive Steps To Person Adjudged "Foreigner" To File Review On Basis Of Centre's Notification Exempting Migrants Of Specified Communities From Foreigners Act

The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim protection from coercive steps to a person declared a "foreigner", to enable him to file a review, when he sought to place reliance on the 2015 central government notification exempting migrants of specified communities from the provisions of the Foreigners Act, 1946. On September 7, 2015, by notification being GSR 686(E), Paragraph 3A of the...

Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court To Hear Former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain's Bail Pleas On August 6

The Delhi High Court will be hearing on August 6 the bail pleas filed by former Aam Aadmi Party Councillor Tahir Hussain in the two FIRs registered against him in connection with the northeast Delhi riots case.A single judge bench comprising of Justice Yogesh Khanna issued notice in the bail application and had sought Delhi Police's status report to be filed before the next date of...

Delhi Riots: Court Allows Safoora Zargar To Visit Home Town In Kashmir, Directs Her To 'Drop a Pin' On Google Maps For Location Verification

A Delhi Court has allowed student activist Safoora Zargar, accused in the Delhi riots case, to visit her home town in Kashmir for a period of one month for performing one of the ceremonies 'Aqiqah' on the occasion of festival of Eid-ul-Milad.Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat allowed Zargar's plea subject to the condition that she will drop a pin on Google Maps for the purpose...

Kerala High Court Extends Interim Orders Yet Again Till 26th July Amid Ongoing Pandemic

A full bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday further extended the life of interim orders up to 26th July 2021. Chief Justice S Manikumar, Justice C.T Ravikumar, and Justice Shaji P Chaly considered that it was pertinent to extend these orders amidst the continuing lockdown restrictions in the State. Advocate General Gopalakrishna Kurup produced before the Court government orders dated...

Supreme Court To Hear On July 22 Andhra Pradesh Govt's Appeal Against High Court Stay On Amaravati Land Scam Probe

The Supreme Court will hear on 22nd July the appeal filed by the State of Andhra Pradesh to lift the stay imposed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on the probe into the Amaravati Land Scam case.A Bench headed by Justice Vineet Saran, after hearing the submissions of Senior Advocates Rajeev Dhavan and Harish Salve, proceeded to adjourn the matter to 22nd July. COURTROOM...

National Lok Adalat Settled Over 32,000 Cases: Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority

On July 10, 2021, the Madhya Pradesh State Legal Service Authorities marked a breakthrough in the disposal of cases at the National Lok Adalat organised state-wide. The Press Note by MPSLSA reads that 32,119 cases were disposed of by constituting 1267 benches resulting in a settlement of Rs. 4,93,72,35,299. Of over 32,000 cases, 5960 pertained to Motor Accident Claims Tribunal and 6037 to...

Is Gold Smuggling By Itself A 'Terrorist Act' Under UAPA? Supreme Court To Examine

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued limited notice on the question of law and tagged the petition filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenging order of the Kerala High Court wherein bail was granted to the 12 accused in the Kerala Gold Smuggling case.A Bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, and Justices AS Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy, presided over the matter and stated...

Justice Shampa Sarkar Of Calcutta High Court To Hear Mamata Banerjee's Election Petition Tomorrow

After Justice Kausik Chanda of the Calcutta High Court decided to recuse from hearing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Election petition, the matter has now been assigned to the bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar.Banerjee's petition had challenged the election of BJP candidate Suvendhu Adhikari from the Nandigram Constituency in the recently held West Bengal assembly polls.Filing...