Law Students At Delhi University Write To BCI Seeking Cancellation Of Pending Intermediate Term Exams For Final Year Students

More than 230 final year students at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi have signed a representation sent to BCI and Delhi University seeking cancellation of 4th semester exams, which have been pending for over a year. Law Faculty, DU follows a 3-year LL.B structure. Exams for intermediate term were postponed last year due to restrictions pertaining to Covid-19, and remain...

Accused Has Right To Have His Bail Plea Heard In Reasonable Time: Allahabad HC Seeks Time Bound Procedure For Supplying Instructions To Govt Advocates

"Failure of the police authorities to provide timely instructions to the Govt Advocate/ Additional Govt Advocate in bail applications causes delay in the hearing of the bail applications, and often leads to unjustified incarceration of an accused in jail," the Allahabad High Court observed recently. A Single Bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot has therefore directed the Director General...

[Chhatrasal Stadium Murder Case] Plea Filed Before Delhi High Court Against Media Trial Of Wrestler Sushil Kumar

A Plea has been filed before Delhi High Court seeking directions to restrain media trial of Sushil Kumar, saying that his career, reputation and dignity has been raffled by media with help of the Delhi police. The plea has argued that the media trial will cause prejudice to his 'free and fair trial' which is his fundamental right under the Constitution."The excessive publicity of the accused...

"PIL Doesn't Mean That Which Is Interesting As Gratifying Curiosity": Jharkhand High Court Dismisses PIL Challenging E-Pass Requirement Amid Lockdown

In a significant observation, the Jharkhand High Court last week, while dismissing a PIL challenging the requirement of E-Pass during Lockdown, remarked: "Public interest litigation does not mean that which is interesting as gratifying curiosity or a love of information or amusement; but that in which a class of the community have a pecuniary interest, or some interest by which...

CBI Undertakes Before Bombay HC To Not Seek Documents From Maharashtra Govt In Probe Against Anil Deshmukh Till June 9

A Special Bench of the Bombay High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Registry to place Maharashtra Government's plea, challenging certain portions of the CBI's FIR against former State HM Anil Deshmukh and others, before the bench led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta. The division bench headed by Justice SJ Kathawalla passed the order following CBI's submissions that the State's...

COVID-"Inform About Steps Taken To Convert Primary Health Centres Into ICU Hospitals With Oxygen Facilities: Himachal Pradesh HC Directs State

Observing that the situation may go out of control of the Government if RTPCR testing is not conducted in war footing, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday directed State Government to inform about the steps taken it to convert primary health centres into ICU Hospitals with oxygen facilities and also directed it to accelerate its work in combating covid 19 pandemic. A division...

Traceability Rule Will Break End-To-End Encryption; Can Put Privacy Of Journalists, Activists, Politicians At Risk : WhatsApp Tells Delhi High Court

In its plea to challenge the traceability clause as mentioned under Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology Rules, 2021, WhatsApp has contended that the aforesaid requirement will "force it to build the ability to identify the first originator for every message sent in India on its platform upon request by the government forever." Relying heavily on the judgment of KS Puttuswamy v. Union...

NRI Moves Kerala High Court Seeking Priority Administration Of Covid19 Vaccine For Expats; Direction To UOI To Ensure Inclusion Of Covaxin In WHO List

A NRI employed in Saudi Arabia has moved the Kerala High Court highlighting a range of legal impediments being faced by expats in relation to the vaccination certificates being issued by the Indian Government. Firstly, the Petitioner has pointed out that foreign countries including the GCC countries will soon mandatorily require full dose immunization to undertake foreign travels. Thus,...

Check Purported Illegality, Brutality Exhibited By The Police In Enforcing Lockdown: Patna High Court To Bihar Govt

The Patna High Court on Tuesday (May 25) directed the Bihar Government to check the purported illegality and brutality exhibited by the police in enforcing the lockdown. The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S. Kumar also asked the Government to develop a State Level Protocol, enabling a common person to understand the need of dealing with the virus. Report of...

"Govt Respects Right To Privacy, No Intention To Violate It When Whatsapp Is Required To Disclose Origin Of Message": IT Ministry

In a press release the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Wednesday clarified that the Government respects the right to privacy and has no intention to violate it when requiring WhatsApp to disclose the origin of a message."Such Requirements are only in case when the message is required for Prevention, Investigation or Punishment of Very Serious Offences related to...

Government Of India Writes To Social Media Platforms Asking Them About Compliance With IT Rules 2021

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India writes to Social Media Platforms Requesting them to furnish details of compliance with the new "The Information Technology Intermediary (Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.#JustInGovernment of India writes to social media platforms, asking them about compliance with IT...

Jitsi Platform Not Convenient For Lawyers, Litigants; Need To Switch To Webex Cisco/Zoom: MP State Bar Council Chairman Writes To Justice Chandrachud

In a letter written to Supreme Court e-committee chairperson, Justice DY Chandrachud, the Madhya Pradesh State Bar Council chairperson, Dr. Vijay Choudhary requested for the introduction of a more efficient and user-friendly virtual hearing platform like Webex Cisco or Zoom be introduced in the Madhya Pradesh High Court to host virtual hearings. The letter seeks urgent indulgence of...