Delhi HC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Decision Not To Permit Teachers, Staff Working In City Schools Without Vaccination

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea challenging the decision of Delhi Government not to permit teachers and staff working in the city schools to attend the schools in case they fail to get themselves vaccinated by October 15.The plea, filed by a teacher working in a private aided school, challenges the circulars dated August 9 and September 29 according to which absence of...

Centre Notifies Appointments Of 10 Additional Judges Of Punjab & Haryana High As Permanent Judges

The Central Government has notified the appointments of 10 additional judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court as permanent judges. They are : i) Suvir Sehgal, ii) Smt. Alka Sarin, iii) Jasgurpreet Singh Puri,iv) Ashok Kumar Verma, v) Sant Parkash vi) Smt. Meenakshi I. Mehta, vii) Karamjit Singhviii) Vivek Puri, ix) Smt. Archana Puri and x) Rajesh Bhardwaj, Click here to read/download...

Kerala HC Upholds Vaccination Mandate To Enter Colleges; Says Advantages Given To Vaccinated Not Discriminatory

The Kerala High Court recently ruled that although an individual is entitled to the right to refuse medical treatment under the Constitution, such right does not affect the authority of the executive to take measures to restore normalcy amidst a pandemic. Justice P.B. Suresh Kumar observed so while upholding a Government order and a circular that mandated the students to be vaccinated with...

Made To Sign Blank Papers At NCB Office, Overheard Extortion Talks : Witness In Aryan Khan Case Alleges

Prabhakar Sail, a panch witness in the cruise liner drug case, has made startling allegations of extortion and pay-offs involving KP Gosavi( a private person at the NCB raid whose picture with Aryan Khan went viral), the investigating officer and NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede and others, in a notarized affidavit. Sail, claiming to be KP Gosavi's personal bodyguard, alleges that he...

Police Can't Question Prosecutrix/Victim Regarding Variations In Statements Given U/S 161 & 164 Of CrPC: Allahabad High Court

In a significant observation, the Allahabad High Court recently deprecated the practice of police officers questioning rape victims regarding variations in their statements given under Section 161 (Examination of witnesses by police) and 164 (Recording of confessions and statements) of the Code Of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The Bench of Justice Samit Gopal specifically...

Bar Council Of India Allows Using Of Bare Acts With Short Notes/Comments For AIBE-XVI

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has given the relaxation of using bare act with short notes/Comments for the All India Bar Examination-XVI [AIBE-XVI] to be held on October 31. "The Council has considered the request made by many candidates appearing in the 16th All India Bar Examination scheduled to be held on 31.10.2021 to allow candidates to use bare Acts with short notes/comments during...

Madhya Pradesh High Court To Resume Physical Hearing From October 25; SOP Issued

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has decided to resume physical hearing of cases at the Principal Seat in Jabalpur and Benches at Indore and Gwalior from October 25, 2021.An SOP issued in this regard states that it shall be necessary for Advocates / Parties-in-person entering the Court premises to have themselves vaccinated/inoculated by at least the first dose of vaccination.However, Advocates...

'Police Appear To Have Acted As Criminals, Protectors Are Not Supposed To Become Predators; Court Raps Delhi Police For Illegal Midnight Raid

A Delhi Court has recently rapped the Delhi Police for barging into the house of a man at about 2:30 am in the middle of the night after observing that such an illegal act of raiding, ransacking, causing injuries to the man and his family members without any reason can be termed as 'worst state of affairs. Observing that protectors are not supposed to become predators, Additional Sessions...

Kerala High Court Prompts State To Publish Guidelines For Medical Professionals In Custodial Torture Cases

The Kerala High Court directed the State to expeditiously notify an order clarifying the procedure to be followed by medical professionals while examining accused and under-trial persons for evidence of any manner of custodial torture or injury.Justice PV Kunhikrishnan directed so upon being informed that the State government had already initiated proceedings to issue a government order...

Kerala High Court Directs Expeditious Setting Up Of Detention Centre For Foreign National

The Kerala High Court on Friday ordered a detention centre to be immediately set up for Johny Alexander Duran Sola, an El Salvador citizen who was accused of smuggling cocaine to the State. Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan directed the authorities to take expeditious steps upon noticing that despite his acquittal in the case, he has been in jail:"The authority concerned should take the necessary...

NCB Asserts Aachit Kumar Supplied Drugs To Aryan Khan, Submits WhatsApp Chats To Court

The Narcotic Control Bureau told the Special NDPS Court that Aachit Kumar (22) was Aryan Khan's illicit drugs supplier and the agency wasn't "loosely" calling him a peddler.Opposing his bail application, the agency submitted WhatApp chats between Khan and Aachit to assert that their case was not only based on 'voluntary' statements under section 67 of the NDPS Act, and they had material...

State's Survey Of Christian Churches Affronts The 'Secular Fabric'; Says PIL Challenging Letter By Directorate Of Minorities, Karnataka HC To Hear On Monday

“The vagueness of the impugned letter has escalated the level of anxiety amongst the Christian community as they are being targeted and subjected to threats, abused and harassed by fundamentalist forces,” the plea states.