Bihar Judicial Academy Organizes Online Condolence Meeting In Memory Of 5 Judicial Officers Who Succumbed To Covid-19

The Bihar Judicial Academy on Tuesday organized an online condolence meeting in the memory of the following five Judicial Officers that it lost to Covid-19 virus. 1) Late Durgesh Mani Tripathy, then Principle Judge, Family Court, Muzaffarpur. 2) Late Piyush Kumar Srivastava, then ADJ, Rohtas at Sasaram. 3) Late Amit Kumar Tiwary, then Sub Judge ACJM Patna. 4) Late Manish...

Post Poll Violence In West Bengal: Plea In Calcutta HC Seeks Compensation To Affected People, NIA Probe

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been moved before the Calcutta High Court seeking urgent reliefs in relation to the State of West Bengal in view of the widespread violence and disruption of law and order that has erupted in the aftermath of the assembly elections. The petition, which has been moved by Social Activist Susheel Kumar Pandey through Advocate J. Sai Deepak...

Chamarajanagar Tragedy : Karnataka High Court Directs State To Consider Suggestions Made By Inquiry Panel On Oxygen Shortage

The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to consider the suggestions made by the committee of Karnataka State Legal Service Authority, headed by retired judge A N Venugopal Gowda, in its fact finding report submitted to the court in relation to the incident of 24 people dying at a hospital in Chamarajanagar district due to shortage of Oxygen. The bench said "We...

Officers With Cyber Expertise Should Probe Bed Allocation Scam, Says Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sandeep Patil to file a report of the investigation carried out in the two first information reports (FIR) filed to probe the alleged the scam related to allocation of hospital beds to COVID patients in Bangalore. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar said "It...

Door-to-Door Vaccination Could Have Saved Many Lives, Bombay High Court Tells Centre

The Bombay High Court, on Wednesday, observed that several lives could have been saved if the Centre had a door-to-door vaccination policy for the elderly and bed-ridden a few months ago. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni questioned the Centre's reluctance on the door-to-door inoculation issue after the Additional Socilitor General said the Union...

Kerala High Court Stays CBFC Certification Of Malayalam Film 'Aquarium' On Nun's Plea That It Offends Religious Sentiments

The Kerala High Court has stayed for two weeks the certification granted to Malayalam Film 'Aquarium' slated to be released on an Over-The-Top Platform (OTT) 'Saina Top Play'. A Bench of Justice PV Kunhikrishnan issued the stay order upon a petition by a nun, Sister Josia. "Hence, all further proceedings based on certification granted as per certificate dated... is stayed for a period...

COVID-19- "Extricate Every Single Drop Of Your Strength And Dedicate Yourself To The Protection Of Your Own People": Uttarakhand HC To State Govt.

Underling that under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, it is the foremost duty of the State to protect the lives of the people, the Uttarakhand High Court on Monday (May 10) issued a slew of specific and general directions to the State Government regarding COVID management. The Court further pulled up the state government over its lack of preparedness to deal with the second...

"No Question Of Black Marketing When Government Has Not Fixed MRP": Navneet Kalra Submits, Delhi Court Reserves Order In His Anticipatory Bail Plea

A Delhi Court on Wednesday reserved orders in the anticipatory bail plea filed by businessman Navneet Kalra accused in connection with the recovery and seizure of Oxygen Concentrators by the Delhi Police recently.Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Garg reserved the orders for tomorrow after hearing Senior Advocate Vikas Pahwa and Advocate Vineet Malhotra appearing for Kalra and Public...

COVID Third Wave Possible : Karnataka High Court Directs State To Come Out With Action Plan

The Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to in two weeks time come out with an action plan and vision statement dealing with state of preparedness for dealing with third possible wave of Covid-19. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar said : "Though during the last few days we have dealt with immediate measures to deal with...

Delhi Government Oscillates On 250-Covid Bed Facility In Indira Gandhi Hospital, High Court Seeks Detailed Affidavit

A day after the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government told the Delhi High Court upon being questioned, that it's got a 250-bed Covid facility ready in Indira Gandhi Hospital, Dwarka, New Delhi, the government today informed the Court that the hospital is ready to offer 80 beds of which 8 are occupied.Yesterday the court had lashed out at the government for mistakenly informing it on Saturday...

Delhi Court Grants Bail To 4 Accused Including Matrix CEO Arrested In Delhi Oxygen Concentrators Hoarding Case

A Delhi Court on Wednesday granted bail to 4 accused persons including Matrix Limited CEO Gaurav Khanna and others namely Satish Sethi, Gaurav Suri and Vikrant arrested in connection with the Oxygen Hoarding case.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg granted bail to the aforesaid accused persons subject to furnishing of a personal bond of Rs. 50,000 each and a surety of like...

"A Girl, Lady Of 23 Years Is Good Enough To Decide Right Or Wrong": Delhi HC Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Rape, Making Obscene Video

"Three years prior to the year 2019, prosecutrix might have been 23 years of age and in the opinion of this Court, at the age of 23 years, a girl/lady is good enough to decide what is right or wrong" observed the Delhi High Court while granting bail to a man accused of rape and making obscene video and thereafter threatening the girl to make the video public. A single judge bench comprising...