Delhi Court Allows Delhi Police's Plea Seeking Deep Sidhu's Production For Obtaining His Voice Samples At FSL

A Delhi Court on Thursday allowed Delhi Police's Application seeking production of Deep Sidhu at the FSL in order to obtain his voice samples and to match it with the Facebook Live and other video clips taken on record by the investigating agency during the course of investigation.Reliever Metropolitan Magistrate Sahil Gupta allowed the application after observing thus:"The Court is of...

"Can't Permit Char Dham Yatra To Become Another Hot Bed For COVID Spread": Uttarakhand High Court

Observing that all over the world, and within the country, people have expressed their concern with the ongoing Kumbh Mela and its impact on the spread of COVID-19, the Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday (20th April) issued a slew of directions regarding COVID-19 management in the State of Uttarakhand. The Bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar...

West Bengal Polls: Just By Issuing Circulars & Holding Meetings Your Responsibilities Aren't Discharged: Calcutta High Court To Election Commission

The Election Commission on Thursday (22nd April) faced censure from the Calcutta High Court over its handling of the elections in West-Bengal amid the COVID crisis. The Bench of Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee remarked, "We are unable to reconcile the fact that the Election Commission of India is not able to update us as to what action by...

Petition In Delhi High Court Seeks Emergency Rations And Food Supply For People Without Ration Cards In view of Covid

Delhi Rozi-Roti Adhikar Abhiyan has approached the Delhi High Court seeking directions on the Delhi Government to resume its scheme of providing dry rations under the Mukhya Mantri Corona Sahayta Yojna (MMCSY) scheme, or any other scheme designed for the poor and needy persons ensure that they don't go hungry in view of the covid 19 pandemic and fresh restrictions issued in the...

Bombay High Court Continues Hearing Of PIL On COVID19 Issues When Told Of Supreme Court's Suo Moto Cognizance

The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that it will continue to hearing the Public Interest Litigation on COVID19 issues, after the Additional Solicitor General appearing for the Centre informed the Court that the Supreme Court has decided to take suo moto cognizance of the issues related to the pandemic.The development came after the ASG Anil Singh tried to interject by referring to news...

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...

[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...

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...