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Breaking: Delhi Oxygen Concentrators Hoarding Case: Delhi Court Rejects Anticipatory Bail Plea Of Navneet Kalra
A Delhi Court on Thursday refused to grant anticipatory bail to businessman Navneet Kalra accused in connection with the recovery and seizure of Oxygen Concentrators by the Delhi Police recently.Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Garg dismissed the application of anticipatory bail filed by Kalra.The Delhi Police had registered a case under sec. 420,188,120B,34 of the Indian Penal Code and sec....
How Politicians & Celebrities Distribute COVID Drugs When State Faces Shortage?Bombay High Court Asks
The Bombay High Court asked the State to respond to an interim application demonstrating how investigational drugs like Remdesivir and Tocilizubam are being procured and distributed by politicians and celebrities while the State continues to complain about a shortage in official supply. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing a PIL on Covid-19 management...
COVID19 : Karnataka High Court Extends Time For Rectification Of Office Objections
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday restored the proceedings in the public interest litigation initiated on its own to address various legal and technical issues that arose before the district and trial courts, from June 1 2020, when they started 'limited functioning', in the state. The court had by an order dated January 15, observing that "We hope that in the future this court...
"Coercing Citizens Directly Or Indirectly To Get Vaccinated Is Unconstitutional": Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Public Disclosure Of Vaccine Clinical Trial And Post Vaccination Data
A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking public disclosure of vaccine clinical trial data and post vaccination data, as is required by International medical norms. The plea has been filed seeking directions to make public the segregated data of the clinical trials for the vaccines that are being administered to the population in India under the Emergency Use Authorisation granted...
Delhi High Court Directs Centre To Respond On Fixing MRP Of Covid-19 Equipments To Fight Black Marketing
Upon the submission of Mehra, a Division Bench of Justices Rekha Palli and Vipin Sanghi of the Delhi High Court today directed Adv. Sanjeev Sagar who was leading submissions on the issue, to prepare a 1-page note on black marketing & hoarding of Covid-19 equipments.The court also directed him to circulate the same for it to be taken up by the Delhi government counsels with various...
"Problem Is In Delhi As Both Centre & State Think It Is Theirs": Delhi High Court On Covid-19 Management In Capital
Hearing a batch of pleas on various aspects of the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the national capital, the Delhi High Court which has been hearing the pleas for nearly 3 weeks now, today remarked, "The problem is in Delhi because both Centre and State think Delhi is theirs."To this, Sr. Adv. Rahul Mehra, responded stating that the Centre should not just think but also "act like Delhi...
Allahabad High Court Constitutes Committee To Enquire Treatment Given To Justice V. K. Srivastava Who Succumbed To COVID
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday (May 11) constituted a Fact-finding committee to conduct an enquiry into the treatment administered to late Justice Virendra Kumar Srivastava, who succumbed to the COVID-19 virus last month, and submit the report to the Court within two weeks.Earlier, on May 4, the Allahabad High Court had sought a response from the State health authorities about the...
Bihar Judicial Academy Organizes Online Condolence Meeting In Memory Of 5 Judicial Officers Who Succumbed To Covid-19
The Bihar Judicial Academy on Tuesday organized an online condolence meeting in the memory of the following five Judicial Officers that it lost to Covid-19 virus. 1) Late Durgesh Mani Tripathy, then Principle Judge, Family Court, Muzaffarpur. 2) Late Piyush Kumar Srivastava, then ADJ, Rohtas at Sasaram. 3) Late Amit Kumar Tiwary, then Sub Judge ACJM Patna. 4) Late Manish...
Breaking: Courts Can Order House Arrest U/s 167 CrPC In Appropriate Cases: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that in appropriate cases, courts can order house arrest under Section 167 of Code of Criminal Procedure.The court said that, to order house arrest, courts can consider criteria like age, health condition and the antecedents of the accused, the nature of the crime, the need for other forms of custody and the ability to enforce the terms of the house arrest. As regards...
Justice Chandrachud Tests Positive For COVID; Supreme Court Defers Suo Moto Case Hearing
The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing on the suo moto case on COVID issues until further notice after Justice DY Chandracahud tested positive for COVID-19.A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat was slated to hear the suo moto case In Re Distribution of Essential Supplies and Services During Pandemic tomorrow.A notice published in the Supreme...
Post Poll Violence In West Bengal: Plea In Calcutta HC Seeks Compensation To Affected People, NIA Probe
A Public Interest Litigation petition has been moved before the Calcutta High Court seeking urgent reliefs in relation to the State of West Bengal in view of the widespread violence and disruption of law and order that has erupted in the aftermath of the assembly elections. The petition, which has been moved by Social Activist Susheel Kumar Pandey through Advocate J. Sai Deepak...