Recovery Proceeding Under Domestic Violence Act Only An Ancillary Proceeding, Not A Bar To Subsequent Adjudication By Family Court: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that recovery proceedings instituted under Section 20 of the Domestic Violence Act would not operate as a bar on a Family Court adjudication of the matter. The Court ruled that proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act were ancillary to the main inquiry of whether the woman faced domestic violence in the home. Therefore, a bench of Justices A...

Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Mandatory Displaying Of Covid-19 Beds, Facilities On Boards Outside Hospitals, Says Govt App Gives Inaccurate Info

A nursing officer on behalf of the Orthodox Christian Medical Fellowship has moved the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Delhi government to issue a circular directing all hospitals in Delhi to "place big display boards" outside their premises giving information about available beds, ventilators, oxygen cylinders, etc in light of the Covid-19 pandemic which has gripped the...

Vedanta Seeks Supreme Court Permission To Reopen Sterlite Plant For Oxygen Production; Centre Supports

Copper manufacturer Vedanta Ltd has moved an urgent application before the Supreme Court seeking permission to re-open its plant in Tamil Nadu - which has been closed for violations of environmental laws - saying that it wanted to help the country with free production of medical oxygen for COVID patients. Senior Advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Vedanta, mentioned the matter before...

[Augusta Westland] Delhi Court Seeks CBI, ED's Response In Two Bail Applications Filed By Christian Michel

A Delhi Court on Thursday sought response of CBI and Enforcement Directorate on the two bail applications filed by Christian Michel in relation with the Augusta Westland deal. Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar sought the response over the two bail applications filed by Michel through Advocate K Jospeh,MS Vishnu Shankar and Sriram Parakkat.The Court will now hear the matter on May 6.Praying for...

Supreme Court Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of COVID Issues

The Supreme Court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance on issues related to oxygen supply, drug supply, vaccine policy in relation to COVID19 pandemic.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat said that notice to the Union of India will be issued today and the matter will be considered tomorrow.Senior Advocate Harish Salve has been...

Reasonable Remdesivir Distribution Policy Needed, Sensitize & Educate Public To Break COVID Chain: Gujarat High Court To State Govt

Hearing the suo motu proceedings initiated by it to take stock of the surge in COVID-19 cases in the state of Gujarat, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (20th April) asked the state Government to come up with Reasonable Remdesivir Distribution Policy. A Bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Bhargav D Karia perused the affidavit-in-reply filed on behalf of the State respondents...

Punjab & Haryana HC Seeks Response Of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh In Plea Seeking Implementation Of Covid Guidelines, Oxygen Supply, Availability Of Beds

The Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday sought response from the State of Haryana, Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh in a plea highlighting the "grim state of covid 19" in the States, non implementation of covid 19 guidelines, non availability of beds and issue of timely supply of oxygen to hospitals. A division bench comprising of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh was dealing...

Consider Deletion Of Condition Prohibiting Consideration Of Premature Release, If No Application/Request Presented: Allahabad HC To UP Govt.

The Allahabad High Court on Monday (19th April) asked the Government of Uttar Pradesh to delete a provision from its policy framed for release of life convicts. Having perused the Policy framed by UP Government, the bench of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal observed that the policy dated 01st August 2018 contains a clause that prohibits the consideration of...

Prepare SOP For Investigation In Cases Of Missing Persons, Assign Children Missing Cases To Trained Officers: Sikkim HC To Govt, DGP

Dealing with a case related to a 14-year-old girl who is missing since June 2013, the Sikkim High Court last week directed the State Government and Director General to come up with an SOP in the matter of missing persons including children. The Bench of Chief Justice Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari and Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai further directed that the SOP should contain the course...

Ensure Timely Assistance And Relief To Senior Citizens In Present Pandemic : Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government to ensure timely assistance and relief to senior citizens in need, in the present pandemic. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj said "We direct state government to issue circular to all District magistrates, within the meaning of the Karnataka Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and...

Vikas Dubey Encounter: Supreme Court Panel Gives Clean Chit To UP Police

No evidence of wrongdoing on part of UP police in encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey:SC panel

BREAKING : Delhi High Court Dismisses WhatsApp, Facebook's Challenge To CCI Order For Probe On New Privacy Policy

A single judge bench of Justice Navin Chawla of the Delhi High Court today rejected Facebook Inc and its subsidiary WhatsApp's challenge to an order by the Competition Commission of India directing a probe into WhatsApp's new privacy policy for being allegedly anti-competitive.The court said it found no merits in the petition and refused to quash the CCI probe.The bench had reserved its...