'We Don't Want Hospitals To Be Potential Jatugrihas' : Bombay High Court on Frequent Hospital Fires in Maharashtra

Taking judicial note of the frequent hospital fires in the State of Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court said it would expand the scope of the PILs regarding Covid-management on Thursday and asked the civic authorities to ensure all the hospitals are fire compliant. "First there was an incident in Bhandup, then in Virar, then Nashik, and now in Thane. We are going to expand...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks To Resume Social And Food Security Schemes For Migrants, Transport Facility To return Home

The Supreme Court has been moved in an application for a direction to the UOI to resume its schemes of providing dry rations to all 8 crore migrant labourers/stranded or needy persons who are not covered under the National Food Security Act or State PDS cards.It is prayed that the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat package and the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana schemes of last year are reinstated...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks GST Exemption For Covid Drugs Like Remdesivir, Other Medical Equipments

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions on the Office of GST Council Secretariat to exempt GST on Covid drugs including Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Favipiravir and other drugs, medical equipments and medical treatment for infection prevention, control measures and supportive care for Covid-19 patients.The intervention application has been moved by The Public...

Several Patients In Waiting For 1 ICU Bed: 76-Year Old Critical Covid-19 Patient Gets Relief From Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court was today informed by a major city hospital, on the plea of a 76-year old senior citizen critically ailing from Covid-19, that though the Covid-19 information portal of Delhi government was showing 1 ICU bed as being available, infact there were "several patients already in the waiting and hence no bed is available." With the second deadlier wave of the Covid-19...

Most Unfortunate That A Former HC Judge Paid Bribe For Governor Post : Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court recently observed that "It is most unfortunate that a former Judge of the High Court has paid bribe to the petitioner for securing the Post of Governor, which act of the complainant not only lowered the prestige of a Judge and also affected the image of the Governor's post." A single-judge bench of Justice K Natarajan made this observation while refusing to...

Former Judge Of Allahabad High Court Justice Dev Kant Trivedi Passes Away

Former Judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice Dev Kant Trivedi passed away today after prolonged illness. He had retired from the Bench in January, 2001. Justice Trivedi qualified the Uttar Pradesh Judicial Services in the year 1962. He was promoted as a District Judge, Rampur and later served as District Judge, Kanpur Dehat, Mathura and Meerut. He was elected as the President...

Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Court Monitored Probe Into Alleged Siphoning Of Funds Collected Under CM Covid-19 Relief Fund

A PIL has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking court monitored probe into alleged siphoning of money collected under the Chief Minister's Covid-19 Relief Fund. The development follows a viral social media post of a RTI reply as per which, the Fund received over ₹ 34.77 crore between March 2020 and January 2021, while in the same period the expenses were ₹ 17.27...

Plea in Delhi High Court Seeks Action Against Politicians Hoarding And Illegally Distributing Covid 19 Medicines, Prays Detention Under NSA

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking registration of FIRs against leaders of political parties indulging in hoarding and illegally distributing covid 19 medicines denying the access to the said medicines to the public at large.The petition moved by Dr. Deepak Singh, Chairman of Hruduya Foundation and filed by Advocate Gaurav Pathak also seeks...

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh Moves Bombay High Court Against Preliminary Enquiry Against Him

Param Bir Singh filed a petition in the Bombay High Court on Thursday, challenging two preliminary enquiries initiated against him by the Maharashtra government.In his petition, Singh claimed he was being targeted and harassed for highlighting the alleged "corrupt malpractices" of former state home minister and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh.Singh in his plea also claimed that during his meeting...

Pandemic Being Used As Excuse By State For Acting In Flagrant Breach Of Court's Orders: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court on Wednesday (April 28) came down heavily on State Government for its failure to file a status report in a matter within time citing the COVID pandemic. The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy was presiding over a Public Interest Litigation and when the matter was listed for reporting compliance, the State prayed for more...

Make COVID Vaccines Available At ₹150 By Invoking Price Control Measures: Plea Filed Before Jharkhand High Court

A plea has been moved before the Jharkhand High Court seeking direction to bring COVID-19 Vaccines (Covishield, Covaxin, etc) under price control by invoking Section 3 of Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and National Disaster Management Act, 2005. The petition has been filed by a practicing lawyer, Mohammad Mumtaz Ansari and it further seeks direction to fix the price of the vaccines...

Arrange Finances For Transgenders' Shelter Homes In The State Of Assam: Gauhati High Court To State Govt

The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday (April 29) directed the Social Welfare Department of the State Government to make arrangement for finances for three shelter homes situated in the State of Assam.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak remarked,"At least an interim arrangement be made so that at least for the next two months these shelter homes...