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'Tweets Were Published Over One Year Ago': AG KK Venugopal Refuses Consent For Contempt Action Against Shefali Vaidya
The Attorney General for India, KK Venugopal has refused to grant consent for initiating contempt proceedings against author Shefali Vaidya for her tweets over Supreme Court, stating that the same were made over a year ago. Responding to a complaint filed by activist Saket Gokhale, the AG said, "I have examined the tweets referred to by you which have apparently been posted by...
Covid19- Services Rendered By Doctors, Health Workers & Policemen During COVID Appreciable; Expect Govt. Would Consider Their Demands: Madras High Court
"This Court places its appreciation and applauds to the services rendered by the Doctors, Health Workers and Police Officers during the pandemic time.", remarked Madras High Court on Tuesday (01st December). The Bench of Justice N. Kirubakaran Justice B. Pugalendhi was hearing a petition filed praying for a direction for State Of Tamilnadu, and Director Of Medical Education to...
Tweets Against CM Uddhav Thackeray: Mumbai Court Lifts Bail Condition, Allows Sameet Thakkar To Operate His Twitter Account
The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Girgaon on Tuesday granted some relief to Nagpur resident Sameet Thakkar, who went to jail in relation to multiple FIRs registered against him for his alleged objectionable tweets against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya Thackeray.ACMM RM Nerlikar allowed an application filed on behalf of Sameet Thakkar for relaxation of...
Calcutta High Court Orders CAG Audit Of Amphan Relief Amid Allegations Of Corruption & Irregularities In Relief Distribution Work
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday (01st December) directed the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India to audit Amphan Cyclone related relief, amid allegations of irregularities and Corruption in distribution work. The Bench of Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee was hearing a batch of petitions instituted in the public...
Delhi High Court Issues Notice On CPIL's Plea Against Govt's CMS, NATGRID, NETRA Surveillance Systems
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the Ministries of Home Affairs, Law, Information Technology and Communications, on a plea against the Central Government's surveillance systems Central Monitoring System (CMS), Network Traffic Analysis (NETRA), and National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID), on a plea by Centre for Public Interest Litigation and and Software Freedom Law CentreThe...
Cases Against MPs/MLAs : Karnataka High Court Directs Implementation Of Witness Protection Scheme
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to within two weeks issue an order constituting a competent authority as prescribed in the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018, which has been approved by the Supreme Court. The Supreme court had in the case of Mahender Chawla vsUnion Of India, on December 5, 2018, approved the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018, prepared by...
Decision On Permission To Staff/Clerks To Travel By Local Trains Will Be Taken This Week: Govt., Railways Inform Bombay High Court
The Maharashtra State Government and Railways on Tuesday (01st December) informed the Bombay High Court that a meeting would be held this week itself, to resolve the issue and to work out the modalities and mechanism, for grant of travel permissions to the staffs and clerks, registered with the Bar Associations to travel by local trains. The Submission was made before the Bench of...
Award Interim Compensation; Periodically Conduct Counselling Of 14 Yr Old Rape Victim: P&H High Court Directs DLSA
The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Wednesday (25th November) directed the Secretary, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Mewat at Nuh as well as the Secretary, DLSA, Faridabad, to award interim compensation to a 14 year old victim. The Bench of Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan also directed the DLSA, Mewat at Nuh to appoint a lady Counsellor, who will periodically...
Karnataka High Court Issues Notice On Plea Against The Appointment Of N R Santosh As Political Secretary Of CM Yediyurappa
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a public interest challenging the appointment of N R Santosh as political secretary to the Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty while issuing the notice to respondents returnable on January 11, 2021, said "​Is there any provision for appointing a...
'How Many Actions Will You Take?' : Bombay High Court Questions Maharashtra Police Over FIR Against Sunaina Holey For Anti-Govt Tweet
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday while hearing a matter relating to tweets against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya Thackeray questioned the Maharashtra government if action will be taken against all those who say something objectionable on Twitter.A division bench of justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik was hearing the criminal writ petition under Section 482 of CrPC filed...
Private Financial Institutions May Be Performing Public Duties But Can't Be Considered 'State' Under Article 12 Of Constitution: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday reiterated that private financial institutions, carrying business or commercial activity, may be performing public duties, but cannot be considered to be covered under the definition of "State" under Article 12 of the Constitution. The observation was mad by Justices Naheed Ara Moonis and Vivek Varma in a writ petition filed against HDFC Bank...