"Central Govt Should Seriously Consider This Proposal": Delhi High Court Bats For Collaboration Of RWA Camps With Private Hospitals

Observing that there is no other avenue to carry out vaccination under the National COVID vaccination programme apart from vaccination centres run by private hospitals, the Delhi High Court has asked the Centre as to how camps run by Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), in collaboration with Private Hospitals, may be able to work out in boosting the vaccination drive. Noting that the...

Delhi High Court Grants Interim Custody Bail To Asif Iqbal Tanha For Preparation And Writing Final Year BA Programme

The Delhi High Court has granted interim custody bail to Asif Iqbal Tanha, facing trial in the Delhi Riots larger conspiracy case, enabling him to sit for his three backlog examinations to complete his BA (Hons.) Programme.A division bench comprising of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Anup J. Bhambhani granted 14 days interim custody bail to Tanha subject to the conditions that he will...

Plea To Ensure Operation Of All Non-Functional Hospitals & Mohalla Clinics in Delhi: Delhi High Court Issues Notice To Delhi Govt.

Hearing a plea filed seeking a direction to the Delhi Government to take necessary steps to ensure operation of all non-functional hospitals and Mohalla Clinics in the NCT of Delhi, the Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Delhi High Court.Issuing the notice to the Delhi Government, the Bench of Justice Rekha Palli posted the matter for further hearing on August 12, 2021.The Court...

Ventilators With 'PM Cares' Stickers Can't Be Used Without Backup, Bombay High Court Told

Eighteen of the 150 Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd's ventilators allocated by the Centre to the Maharashtra Government are repaired, and the Government Medical College and Hospital (Aurangabad) can use them with ventilator backup ( by keeping another ventilator on stand-by), the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) was informed on Monday. "This also indicates that as on date, neither...

Former Chief Justice Of Delhi High Court Justice Rajendra Nath Aggarwal Passes Away

Former Chief Justice Of Delhi High Court Justice Rajendra Nath Aggarwal passed away yesterday at the age of 95. In the year 1997, he was appointed as Delhi's first Lokayukt.He did Matriculation privately from the Punjab University, Lahore ; Govt. College, Lahore ; Law College , Lahore and Simla and then enrolled as an Advocate of the East Punjab High Court at Simla in 1951.He practised at...

Making False Accusation Of Impotency By A Spouse In Matrimonial Proceedings Amounts To Cruelty: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently held that casting aspersions of impotency or erectile dysfunction by one spouse against other in matrimonial proceedings will constitute cruelty. The appeal was filed by the appellant husband represented by Adv. NK Subramanian, against the order of the Family Court, Thrissur which denied a decree of dissolution of marriage to the appellant. The...

NCLAT: Liquidation Proceedings Quashed On The Ground That Sole Decision Of Related Parties Financial Creditors Could Be Fatal For The Existence Of The Corporate Debtor

The Principal Bench of the National Company Appellate Law Tribunal at Delhi comprising of Justice A.I.S. Cheema and Justice V. P. Singh, quashed the liquidation proceedings against the Corporate Debtor- 'INCAB Industries Limited and directed to appoint another IRP/ Resolution Professional in place while restoring the application u/S. 9 of the Insolvency Bankruptcy Code, 2016 to...

KHCAA Writes To Kerala High Court Chief Justice To Discontinue The E-Filing System In Accordance With Its Prior Decision

The Kerala High Court Advocates Association (KHCAA) has written to the Kerala High Court Chief Justice urging for the suspension of the e-filing system as promised and conveyed to the Association, Advocate General and the Bar Council of Kerala in their respective meetings with the Administrative Committee, chaired by the Chief Justice. The letter states that in the...

Serious Mental Health Issues Have Cropped Up As Fallout Of COVID-19 Infection: Telangana High Court Seeks Action Plan From State

The Telangana High Court has sought a blue print from the State government for treatment of persons suffering mental trauma as a fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. "How do you handle mental health of Covid patients or the attendants who lost their loved ones," Chief Justice Hima Kohli had asked G. Srinivasa Rao, the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, appearing before the...

Industrial Units Cannot Operate Without Prior Environment Clearance, State Has No Power To Exempt Requirement Of Prior EC: NGT

The National Green Tribunal has on Thursday held that industrial units required to get an Environment Clearance under EIA notification cannot operate without prior EC, and the State has no power to either exempt the requirement of prior EC or to allow the units to function without EC on payment of compensation.A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel made the observations...

Implement Apex Court's Directions On Communal Violence, Mob Lynching: Rajyasabha MP Digvijaya Singh Moves Plea In MP High Court

Congress Leader and Rajyasabha Member Digvijaya Singh has filed a plea before the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking direction to the State of Madhya Pradesh to implement the directions passed by the Supreme Court in various cases for the prevention of incidents of mob violence, communal violence and mob lynching.The Madhya Pradesh High Court (the bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq...

Madras High Court Asks State To Consider Priority Vaccination For Transgender Persons, Citizens Required To Undertake International Travel

The Madras High Court has asked both Central and State Government to ramp up Covid-19 vaccination program for such citizens who are bound to undertake international travel. In the suo moto Covid-19 case, one of the intervenors suggested that for students who wish to study abroad and for residents abroad who had come on short visits, or others who need to undertake...