Supreme Court Issues Circular On Listing Of Cases Before Vacation Benches For First Part of Summer Vacation

Supreme Court has issued a circular stipulating the directions to "meet the demand of justice and for hearing of matters of extreme urgent nature" that is to take place during the First Part of the Summer Vacation, i.e. from 10th May 2021 to 25th May 2021.1. From 10th May to 16th May, two Division Benches will conduct a hearing through Video Conferencing Mode on Tuesday and Friday. 2....

Plea In Calcutta High Court Seeks Scrapping Of Differential Pricing Policy Of COVID Vaccines, Universal Vaccination Like Pulse Polio Program

A plea has been moved before the Calcutta High Court submitting that Vaccine for COVID -19 under the present circumstances has to be treated as a Public Good and distributed equitably and in a fairs manner with a view to achieve universal immunization against COVID - 19. The plea, moved by a Doctor, Fuad Halim through Advocates Bikash Ranjan (Senior Advocate) and Samim Ahammed, states...

Delhi High Court Calls For High Level Meeting For Assessing Demand, Modalities For Importing And Supply Of Tocilizumab In India

Delhi High Court on Thursday called for a high level meeting for assessing the demand for Tocilizumab in India and also to discuss the modalities for import and supply of the drug as per the expected demand and further logistics for its placing orders.A single judge bench comprising of Justice Pratibha Singh was dealing with a petition filed by brother of one Sudhir Kumar Agarwal, a covid...

Registrar General Of National Green Tribunal, Mr. Ashu Garg, Succumbs To Covid 19

The Registrar General of the Natinal Green Tribunal, New Delhi, Mr. Ashu Garg has succumbed to covid 19 on Friday morning.A circular issued in this behalf on Friday reads thus:"With profound sorrow and grief, this is to inform that Sh. Ashu Garg, Ld. Registrar General, National Green Tribunal, New Delhi, has left for his heavenly abode today morning due to covid 19."Recently, two...

BREAKING : 'High Court Correctly Examined Demand' : Supreme Court Rejects Centre's Challenge Against Karnataka HC Direction To Increase Daily Oxygen Quota For State As 1200 MT

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the challenge made by the Central Government against the direction issued by Karnataka High Court to increase the daily quota of liquid medical oxygen for the State of Karnataka as 1200 MT."It is a well-calibrated, well-considered judicial exercise by the High Court", Justice Chandrachud told the Solicitor General at the very outset."We will not leave...

'We Want Union To Supply 700 MT Oxygen To Delhi On Daily Basis, We Mean Business' : Supreme Court Directs Centre

The Supreme Court has clarified that it wants Central Government to continue supplying 700 MT of liquid medical oxygen to Delhi on a daily basis until further orders.A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that an order to that effect has been passed, which will be uploaded during the course of the day."We want 700 MT to be supplied to Delhi on...

Former Supreme Court Judge Justice MY Eqbal Passes Away

Former Supreme Court Judge Justice MY Eqbal passed away today morning at New Delhi.He was a judge of the Supreme Court from 24 December 2012 – 12 February 2016.Before that, he was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana has condoled the passing away of former Supreme Court judge M Y Eqbal before commencing the day's judicial proceedings.Justice N...

High Powered Committee Of Delhi High Court Submits Report On Release Of Prisoners, Remission Of Sentence, Emergency Parole Etc

“Right To Life Unconditionally Embraces Even Undertrial, Convict Walled Off From Society”: High Powered Committee Of Delhi HC Meets To Discuss Covid Situation In Jails, Release On Interim Bails, Paroles

"Number Of Prisoners Being Inoculated Be Drastically Increased": Uttarakhand High Court Issues Direction On Prisoners

Dealing with a PIL filed regarding the state of prisoners amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday (May 6) issued a slew of directions.The Bench of Conditions issued the following directions:The Jail Department and the Principal Secretary, Home / Prison, State of Uttarakhand, are directed to ensure that the number of the prisoners being inoculated is...

"Medical Infra of State In Shambles, Don't Be Like Ostrich With Head In Sand": Delhi High Court To Delhi Govt

A division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli of the Delhi High Court which has been hearing a batch of petitions on oxygen shortage in Covid-19 management in Delhi, lay down in its order on Thursday, that the medical infrastructure of the capital has been totally exposed and "put to test". Upon protest by the Delhi Govt counsel, Sr. Adv. Rahul Mehra, against the said remark,...

Delhi High Court Appoints Arvind Datar As Amicus Curiae In Plea Seeking GST Exemption For Oxygen Concentrators

The Delhi High Court has appointed Senior Advocate Arvind P Datar as an amicus curiae to assist it in a petition seeking exemption of Integrated Goods and Services Tax(IGST) for oxygen concetrators imported for the use of individuals.A division bench comprising Justices Rajiv Shakhder and Talwant Singh passed the order on May 6 in the case Gurucharan Singh vs Ministry of Finance.Earlier,...

Police's Job Is To Ensure Social Distancing, Law & Order, They Can't Be Burdened To Bring Files When Accused Has Received Same Under S. 207 CrPC: HP High Court

Observing that once the accused receives documents under Section 207, CrPC free of costs, then the State cannot be burdened again and again to bring the police file along with police officials¸ the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Thursday (May 6) refused to grant bail to a murder accused. The Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara noted that the requirement of police is more to maintain...