Allahabad HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Unhygienic Conditions In Quarantine Centers [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance of the unhygienic and inhumane conditions of various Quarantine Centers in the state. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Siddharyh Varma has registered a PIL, based on an e-mail sent by a practicing Advocate of the High Court, Gaurav K. Gaur, highlighting the "pathetic conditions" at...

Advocates Condemn Act Of Karnataka Govt. Cancelling Special Trains Say Compulsion On Workers To Stay Where They Are Amounts To Slavery [Read Statement]

Around 69 advocates from Bengaluru, Delhi and Maharashtra on Thursday issued a statement condemning the action of the Karnataka Government in cancelling all special trains for migrant workers. The statement says "We, the undersigned Advocates, unequivocally condemn the action of the Karnataka government cancelling all special trains for migrant workers subsequent to a meeting...

PIL In J&K HC Challenges Centre's Decision To Transfer Pending Service Matters Before J&K HC To CAT, Chandigarh [Read Petition]

A PIL has been filed in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, challenging the Government notification whereby Chandigarh Bench of CAT has been conferred with the jurisdiction to adjudicate service matters relating employees of government of UT of J&K. The Notification issued by the Central Government on April 29, 2020 has the effect of transferring all service disputes pertaining...

'Centre, State Taking Positive Action To Ensure Safety Of Health Workers': Kerala HC Dismisses Plea To Bring Back COVID Affected Nurses To The State [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court last week refused to entertain the United Nurses Association's plea to bring back the COVID affected Nurses to the state to give them proper medication. The Association had filed the Writ Petition pointing out that the COVID affected Nurses and Nurses who are likely to be infected, are not provided any facilities for medication, testing, quarantine, food, etc in...

Delhi HC Gives Relief To Ad-Hoc Assistant Professor Whose Services Were Terminated For Taking A Maternity Break [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has quashed the termination letter of an ad-hoc Professor whose contract was not renewed by the College as she had taken a maternity leave, which was not approved by the said College. While directing the College to reinstate the Appellant Professor within one week, the Division Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Asha Menon imposed a cost of ₹50,000 on...

Jharkhand HC Cancels Summer Vacation 2020 [Read Notification]

Summer Vacation 2020 of the Jharkhand High Court, scheduled between May 18, 2020 and June 6, 2020 has been cancelled. A notification for the same was issued by the HC Registrar General today. On a related note, the National Green Tribunal and the High Courts of Bombay, Madras, Karnataka, Kerala, Delhi, Gujarat, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Telangana have also cancelled the summer...

Chhattisgarh HC Cancels Summer Vacation for HC & Subordinate Courts [Read Order]

Following the footsteps of other courts in the country, the High Court of Chhattisgarh has cancelled the summer vacation of both the High Court as well as the courts subordinate, so as to compensate for the loss of court work due to the lockdown. An office order intimating the same was issued today by the Registrar General whereby it has been declared that the summer...

Ensure Migrants Who Enter Odisha Are Tested Negative For COVID-19 : Orissa HC Directs Authorities

The Orissa High Court on Thursday directed the State Government to ensure that the migrants who come back from other states should be tested COVID-19 negative. A bench comprising Justices S Panda and K R Mohapatra passed the order while hearing a petition filed by one Narayan Chandra Jena. The bench in its order said "the state government should ensure that all migrants who are in queue...

Lockdown 3: Allahabad HC Extends Interim Orders Passed By It & Courts Subordinate To It Till June 3 [Read Order]

In view of commencement of third phase of the national lockdown, a division bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Siddhartha Varma has further extended all interim orders passed by it and by the courts subordinate to it, that expired subsequent to March 19, till June 3. Further, orders of eviction, dispossession or demolition and orders of anticipatory bail expiring on...

'Mere Inaccuracies In Reporting Cannot Justify Initiation Of Prosecution': Madras HC Quashes Criminal Defamation Proceedings Against ET Journalist & Editor [Read Judgment]

"There is something called ethical imperative. It envisions that inherent powers go with implicit duties. Courts often nudge and remind the executive that possession of power is coupled with a duty to exercise the same. Judicial power can be no different. When freedom of press which is a fundamental right is at stake, higher judiciary is obliged to exercise not only its inherent power...

Any Order Of Arbitral Tribunal In Course Of Arbitration Cannot Be Challenged By Way Of Writ Petition : Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court in a judgment delivered last week again considered whether any order passed during pendency of arbitration proceedings under the Act­ of 1996 can be challenged by certiorari under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India or not. "Considering the policy, objects and the provisions of the Arbitration Act of 1996, an order passed during arbitration proceedings...

Karnataka HC Asks State To Consider Recommendations Made In Survey Report Prepared By NLSIU

The Karnataka High Court has asked the State government to consider the recommendations made in the survey report titled "Rapid Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Food and Nutrition Security in Rural Karnataka," prepared by Centre for Child and the Law, National Law School of India University Bangalore. In the survey conducted by them a total 152 respondents...