Authorities Have Taken Care Of Them": Gujarat HC Denies Interim Bail To Mother To Attend To Minor Children Amidst COVID Outbreak [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court on Friday declined the plea of a mother to release her on temporary bail to attend to her children lodged in shelter homes. The applicant, a murder convict, had urged that greater care is needed in the present times when the communicable respiratory disease called the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) has spread itself, that there is nobody who could take care of...

Delhi Commission for Women Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Suicide Attempt By AIIMS Doctor Allegedly Due To Sexual Harassment [Read Notice]

The Delhi Commission for Women has taken suo moto cognizance on reports of suicide attempted by a female resident doctor of AIIMS, allegedly due to repeated sexual harassment and caste discrimination by a senior faculty. In face of the seriousness of the matter, the Commission has sought a detailed action taken report from the Director, AIIMS. On Friday, a dental surgeon at AIIMS...

Protection of Women From Domestic Violence During Lockdown: Delhi HC Directs Centre, Delhi Govt To Convene High Level Meeting [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has directed the Central Government, Delhi Government, National Commission for Women, Delhi Commission for Women, and other concerned authorities to convene a meeting at the highest level to look into the issue of protection of women from domestic violence during the lockdown period. The Division Bench of Justice J R Midha and Justice Jyoti Singh has also directed the...

Allahabad HC Grants Bail To Iranian Student In Over Staying Visa Case [Read Order]

Recalling that "Bail is rule and jail is exception", the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday released an Iranian student on bail in connection to a criminal case for overstaying his visa. The High Court observed that in terms of the larger mandate of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution and in accordance with the Supreme Court's verdict in Dataram Singh v. State of UP & Anr., (2018)...

Delhi HC Decides To Increase The Strength of Benches Hearing Urgent Matters, Designates Two Courtrooms For Those Unable To Use VC [Read Minutes]

In light of the increasing access to justice in the time of pandemic, the Administrative and General Supervision Committee of the Delhi High Court has decided to increase the number of Benches for hearing the urgent matters. As per order dated April 17, the number of Benches is increased from one Division Bench to two Division Benches and from two Single Benches to four...

Power Ministry Calls For Public Comments On Proposed Amendments To Electricity Act

The Ministry of Power, Government of India has published a draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 for comments on its website with various provisions that will pave way for significant reforms in the power sector. Creation of 'Electricity Contract Enforcement Authority' The Central Government has proposed for creation of a 'Electricity Contract Enforcement Authority' (ECEA) to...

J&K HC Using SMS Service To Disseminate Relevant Information On COVID-19 Among Lawyers/ Litigants

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court in coordination with J&K Legal Services Authority has devised a "robust mechanism" for disseminating information and spreading awareness about the COVID-19, through text messaging. Using the database of lawyers and litigants maintained by the High Court as well as District Courts of UTs of J&K and Ladakh, the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir is...

MHA Releases New Standard Operating Protocol For Movement Of Stranded Labour [Read Order]

There shall be no movement of labour outside the State/UT from where they are currently located.The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a standard operating protocol for enabling the movement of migrant labours who are stranded in different parts of the country, amid lockdown. The migrant labours, employed in industry, agriculture, construction and other sectors, were unable to...

Held For Stealing, Minor Boy Gets A Rare Treatment From Nalanda Court

Coming to the rescue of a 16-year-old boy who had been apprehended for committing theft, the Bihar Sharif Court in Bihar's Nalanda district on Friday ordered the local police to release him and to provide him with food and clothes, amid the lockdown, reported ToI. The direction was made by Judicial Officer Manvendra Mishra who noted that the boy was forced to commit theft, in order...

Press Freedom Not Unfettered, Says Court While Granting Bail To Journalist Arrested Over Bandra Migrants Incident

A Magistrate Court at Bandra granted bail to Rahul Kulkarni, a journalist working for ABP Majha who was arrested for offences under various sections of the IPC and the Epidemic Diseases Act for an alleged false report that the Railways will be starting special trains for ferrying lakhs of stranded migrants workers across the state to their native places.As per the FIR, in the morning of April...

[COVID-19] All Judicial Proceedings In Madras HC Will Be Conducted Via Video Conferencing [Read Circular]

Madras High Court has issued a circular stating that all judicial proceedings in the High Court will only be conducted through video conferencing in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The circular has been issued in order to completely secure the premises of the High Court and to prevent the spread of any infection after it was found that the State Government Counsel's Office assistant...

Allahabad HC Defers Re-Opening Of Subordinate Courts In The State [Read Letter]

In view of the prevailing extraordinary circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court has clarified that its previous order relating to operation of Subordinate courts in the state from April 20 will be kept in abeyance for a week. In a letter addressed to all the District Judges in UP, the Registrar General intimated that in view of...