No Patient To Be Refused Services, COVID Positive Report Not Needed For Hospitalisation: Centre Revises National Policy For Hospital Admissions

Days after the Supreme Court directed the Central Government to frame a uniform national policy on hospital admissions, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare today revised the National Policy For Admission of COVID Patients to various categories of COVID facilities. The Health Ministry has called this move a 'patient-centric measure', which aims to ensure a prompt, effective,...

Witnesses' Evidence Cannot Be Discarded As A Whole Merely Because There Are Exaggerations, Reiterates Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that evidence given by a witness can not be discarded as a whole on the ground that it is exaggerated."To make a mountain out of a molehill, the molehill shall have to exist primarily. A Court of law, being mindful of such distinction is duty bound to disseminate 'truth' from 'falsehood' and sift the grain from the chaff in case of exaggerations", the bench...

COVID- 'There Should Not Be Any Effort To Protect Influential Persons': Jharkhand High Court Warns Agency Investigating Black Marketing Of Life Saving Drugs

The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday warned the concerned officers, entrusted with curbing black marketing of medicines during Covid-19, from protecting any influential person involved in such illegal activities. Noting that investigation in this regard is not being conducted in the direction, a Division Bench comprising of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan...

Plea Seeking Setting Up COVID Vaccination Centres In RWA Offices: Delhi High Court Asks Govt To Consider Representation

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the Delhi Government to consider as representation the plea seeking setting up vaccination centres in RWA Offices, Residential Societies and NGO Compounds to ensure minimum exposure to covid for people going for vaccinations.A division bench comprising of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh asked the authorities to take a...

Patna High Court Seeks State's Response On Availability Of Medicines, Oxygen Cylinders And Black Marketing

The Patna High Court on Friday sought response of the State Government on the aspect of availability of covid medicines, oxygen cylinders in rural areas especially in the district hospitals and also about the incidents of black marketing in the State. The division bench comprising of Chief Justice Sanjay S. Karol and Justice S. Kumar also went ahead to direct the State Government to ensure...

Freedom To Report Court Hearings: Citing Supreme Court's Recent Judgment, Plea Filed In Gujarat HC Seeking E-Access To Media

In view of the Supreme Court recent Judgment [Election Commission of India v. MR Vijaya Bhaskar LL 2021 SC 244] upholding the freedom of media to report the oral observations and discussions made by judges and lawyers during a court proceeding, an application has been moved before the Gujarat HC seeking e-access to media. The application has been filed by Advocate Amit Manibhai...

COVID-19- Doorstep Vaccination Of Elderly, Disabled And Others Who Can't Approach Vaccination Centres: Orissa HC Seeks Centre's Response

Dealing with a petition seeking judicial intervention to ensure vaccination for senior citizens with ailments and for those who are physically challenged and are unable to approach the vaccination centres, the Orissa High Court on Thursday (May 6) adjourned the matter for hearing on May 12 in light of the Supreme Court's order dated April 30.COVID19-Plea In Supreme Court Seeks To Ensure...

Reservation In University Cannot Be Applied By Treating All Professors Of Different Subjects As One Cadre : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has quashed a recruitment notification issued by the Kerala University on the ground that it treated professors of different departments as one unit to apply reservation for communities.A single bench of Justice Amit Rawal held that reservations had to be made subject-wise and each post in a particular discipline has to be treated as a single post. The bench struck...

Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Ex Gratia Payment To Families Of Judicial Officers, Court Staff Who Lost Their Lives Due To Covid 19

A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking ex gratia payment to the kith and kin of judicial officers and members of the court staff in tune of Rs. 1 Crore and 50 Lakhs respectively who have lost their lives due to covid 19 virus. The plea also seeks direction to declare late Kovai Venugopal and Kamran Khan, judicial officers who recently succumbed to covid 19, as frontline...

Administer Covid-19 Vaccines To Antyodaya Card Holders, Persons Falling BPL & APL In Equal Ratio: Chhattisgarh High Court Tells State

The Chhattisgarh High Court on Friday expressed displeasure at the State Government's action of completely halting the Covid-19 vaccination drive with respect to persons in the age group 18-45 for deciding vaccination norms. "We do not appreciate the action of the State Government in totally stopping the vaccination to the residents of the State coming within the age group of above...

Kerala High Court Conditionally Stays Stop Memo Against Judicial Officers' Apartment Complex

The Kerala High Court on Friday issued a conditional stay of the stop memo issued by the Kochi Corporation to the Kerala Judicial Officers' Cooperative Society suspending the construction of a 15-storey apartment complex at Chalikkavattom. The stop memo was issued after a complaint alleged that part of the building, 3.27 acres, was being constructed on nilam property. Admitting...

Lockdown- "Any Advocate Practicing Anywhere In the State May Apply For Passes To Visit Office": Madhya Pradesh High Court

Modifying its earlier order, the Madhya Pradesh High Court today directed that any practicing advocate located anywhere in any district headquarters of the State may apply for passes for visiting office from the residence and vice versa, during the ongoing lockdown/Corona curfew.Movement Of Lawyers, Their Staff During Lockdown- "They May Apply For Passes Through Bar Associations": State...