Ventilators With 'PM Cares' Stickers Can't Be Used Without Backup, Bombay High Court Told

Eighteen of the 150 Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd's ventilators allocated by the Centre to the Maharashtra Government are repaired, and the Government Medical College and Hospital (Aurangabad) can use them with ventilator backup ( by keeping another ventilator on stand-by), the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) was informed on Monday. "This also indicates that as on date, neither...

Former Chief Justice Of Delhi High Court Justice Rajendra Nath Aggarwal Passes Away

Former Chief Justice Of Delhi High Court Justice Rajendra Nath Aggarwal passed away yesterday at the age of 95. In the year 1997, he was appointed as Delhi's first Lokayukt.He did Matriculation privately from the Punjab University, Lahore ; Govt. College, Lahore ; Law College , Lahore and Simla and then enrolled as an Advocate of the East Punjab High Court at Simla in 1951.He practised at...

Making False Accusation Of Impotency By A Spouse In Matrimonial Proceedings Amounts To Cruelty: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently held that casting aspersions of impotency or erectile dysfunction by one spouse against other in matrimonial proceedings will constitute cruelty. The appeal was filed by the appellant husband represented by Adv. NK Subramanian, against the order of the Family Court, Thrissur which denied a decree of dissolution of marriage to the appellant. The...

NCLAT: Liquidation Proceedings Quashed On The Ground That Sole Decision Of Related Parties Financial Creditors Could Be Fatal For The Existence Of The Corporate Debtor

The Principal Bench of the National Company Appellate Law Tribunal at Delhi comprising of Justice A.I.S. Cheema and Justice V. P. Singh, quashed the liquidation proceedings against the Corporate Debtor- 'INCAB Industries Limited and directed to appoint another IRP/ Resolution Professional in place while restoring the application u/S. 9 of the Insolvency Bankruptcy Code, 2016 to...

KHCAA Writes To Kerala High Court Chief Justice To Discontinue The E-Filing System In Accordance With Its Prior Decision

The Kerala High Court Advocates Association (KHCAA) has written to the Kerala High Court Chief Justice urging for the suspension of the e-filing system as promised and conveyed to the Association, Advocate General and the Bar Council of Kerala in their respective meetings with the Administrative Committee, chaired by the Chief Justice. The letter states that in the...

Serious Mental Health Issues Have Cropped Up As Fallout Of COVID-19 Infection: Telangana High Court Seeks Action Plan From State

The Telangana High Court has sought a blue print from the State government for treatment of persons suffering mental trauma as a fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. "How do you handle mental health of Covid patients or the attendants who lost their loved ones," Chief Justice Hima Kohli had asked G. Srinivasa Rao, the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, appearing before the...

Industrial Units Cannot Operate Without Prior Environment Clearance, State Has No Power To Exempt Requirement Of Prior EC: NGT

The National Green Tribunal has on Thursday held that industrial units required to get an Environment Clearance under EIA notification cannot operate without prior EC, and the State has no power to either exempt the requirement of prior EC or to allow the units to function without EC on payment of compensation.A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel made the observations...

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-68]

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Implement Apex Court's Directions On Communal Violence, Mob Lynching: Rajyasabha MP Digvijaya Singh Moves Plea In MP High Court

Congress Leader and Rajyasabha Member Digvijaya Singh has filed a plea before the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking direction to the State of Madhya Pradesh to implement the directions passed by the Supreme Court in various cases for the prevention of incidents of mob violence, communal violence and mob lynching.The Madhya Pradesh High Court (the bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq...

Madras High Court Asks State To Consider Priority Vaccination For Transgender Persons, Citizens Required To Undertake International Travel

The Madras High Court has asked both Central and State Government to ramp up Covid-19 vaccination program for such citizens who are bound to undertake international travel. In the suo moto Covid-19 case, one of the intervenors suggested that for students who wish to study abroad and for residents abroad who had come on short visits, or others who need to undertake...

BREAKING: Centre Will Procure Vaccines For States; Free Vaccination For 18-44 Years, Says PM Modi

Changing the earlier vaccination policy, the Central Government has decided to procure vaccines for the State Governments as well, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an address to the nation today evening.This will be implemented in the coming two weeks.The Central Government has also decided to give free vaccines for the age group of 18-44 years as well from June 21, the PM said.It...

'Dhobi Ghat Jhuggi' Dwellers Can't Be Left On The Streets To Fend For Themselves: Delhi High Court Directs Govt. To Make Proper Arrangements

Observing that while their right to rehabilitation is yet to be determined, the Delhi High Court recently remarked that Dhobi Ghat Jhuggi Dwellers cannot be left on the streets to fend for themselves, finding themselves evicted from a place where they claim to have been living for the past two decades.Noting that due arrangements must be made immediately, the Bench of Justice Najmi...