Working Mechanism Proposed For Assessing Threat Perception & Offering Protection To Runaway Couples In 72 Hours: Punjab Govt Tells High Court

The Government of Punjab has informed the High Court that it has proposed a mechanism for affording protection to runaway couples, within 72 hours of receiving their complaints. "A working mechanism is proposed whereby within 24 hours of receiving of the grievances, the same would be forwarded to the Deputy Commissioner who with the help of the Committee or the SSP concerned...

President Appoints Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra As Acting Chief Justice Of Chhattisgarh High Court From June 1

The Centre has appointed Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, senior-most Judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court, as the Acting Chief Justice of that High Court with effect from June 1, 2021. The notification dated May 24 has been issued pursuant to upcoming retirement of Chief Justice PR Ramachandra Menon on May 31. Justice Mishra enrolled as an Advocate on September 4, 1987 and practiced...

"Now You Have Excess Money From RBI? Why Don't You Give Vaccine Free, At Least For Poor?" Kerala High Court Suggests To Centre

Referring an Indian Express news report, the Kerala High Court pointed out that the Centre could use the excess dividend of Rs.99,000 crore received from the Reserve Bank of India to procure vaccines. Justice K Vinod Chandran made this suggestion when a bench comprising himself and Justice MR Anitha Court took two petitions challenging the Centre's Liberalised Pricing and...

Supreme Court Directs Centre To File Reply On Position Of National Database For Unorganised Workers (NDUW) In Suo Moto Migrant Workers Case

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to file a Counter-Affidavit on the position of the National Database for Unorganised Workers (NDUW) and to seek instructions as to what steps what have been taken under the new Social Security Code, 2020.A Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and MR Shah were hearing the suo moto case – "In Re: Problems and Miseries of Migrant Workers" to...

Black Marketing Of Oxygen In Ghaziabad Amid Covid-19: Allahabad High Court Seeks Inquiry Report, Personal Affidavit Of District Magistrate

The Allahabad High Court has sought report on the alleged black marketing of Oxygen in UP's Ghaziabad district, resulting into the deaths of scores of Covid-19 patients.A Bench of Justices Sunita Agarwal and Sadhna Rani (Thakur) has directed the District Magistrate, Ghaziabad to file his personal affidavit in the matter, along with a report of an inquiry conducted by an independent IAS...

Narada Case : Calcutta High Court 5-Judge Bench Adjourns Hearing On TMC Leaders' Bail Till May 26

A 5-Judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising of ACJ Rajesh Bindal, Justices Harish Tandon, IP Mukerji, Arijit Banerjee and Soumen Sen on Monday adjourned hearing in the case pertaining to bail of four Trinamool Congress leaders, who have been in custody since May 17 since their arrest by the CBI in the Narada Scam Case. The Bench will continue hearing the case day...

"Gautam Gambhir Has Done Disservice; Even With Best Of Intentions They Are Malpractices" : Delhi HC Directs Drug Controller To Investigate Hoarding Of Covid Drugs

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Drug Controller to conduct inquiry or investigation into three specific allegations against BJP MP Gautam Gambhir and AAP MLAs Preeti Tomar and Praveen Kumar for hoarding and illegally stocking covid 19 medicines and drugs.A division bench comprising of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh was dealing with a plea seeking registration of...

Kerala High Court Asks State Government To Consider Including Subordinate Court And High Court Staff and Registry In Vaccine Priority

The Kerala High Court has asked the Kerala Government to consider prioritising vaccinations for court staff and the registry at the High Court and at the subordinate level.A Bench of Justices K Vinod Chandran and MR Anitha took up a petition praying that advocates and advocate clerks be included in the vaccine priority list.During the hearing today, Justice Vinod Chandran observed that...

"CBI Moved SC Against This Court's Order": SG Tushar Mehta Seeks To Defer Narada Case Hearing Before The Five-Judges Bench Of Calcutta HC

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta today sought to defer the hearing of the case pertaining to bail of four Trinamool Congress leaders, who have been in custody since May 17 since their arrest by the CBI in the Narada Scam Case. He sought adjournment on the ground that CBI has approached the Supreme Court against the Division Bench order allowing house-arrest of the four TMC leaders....

Piracy Of Salman Khan's "Radhe": Delhi High Court Orders WhatsApp & Ors To Suspend Accounts Illegally Sharing Movie

In an interim relief against piracy of Bollywood actor Salman Khan's new release "Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai", a single judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula of the Delhi High Court has directed WhatsApp and other social media platforms to forthwith suspend accounts who are illegally sharing and/or selling pirated copies of the movie.Ordering a blanket protection against any form of piracy...

Validity Of Marriage Not A Ground For Denial Of Protection Of Couple's Life & Liberty: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has reaffirmed that in protection petitions, questions surrounding validity of the marriage cannot be a ground for denial of protection of the couple's life and liberty. A Single Bench of Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri has held, "The scope of the present petition is only regarding the protection of life and liberty of the petitioners and, therefore,...

Narada Case Hearing Live Updates From Calcutta High Court 5-Judge Bench

A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court is hearing today the case related to the bail of four Trinamool congress leaders Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrato Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee.The matter was referred to larger bench following a split between Acting CJ Rajesh Bindal and Justice Arijeet Banerjee on the grant of interim-bail.Meanwhile, the CBI has approached the Supreme Court...