Justice DK Basu, Former Calcutta High Court Judge And The Petitioner In The Landmark DK Basu Case, Passes Away

Former Calcutta High Court Judge Justice DK Basu passed away at 3.20 am at Peerless Hospital today.He was one of the Petitioners in the landmark Judgment in DK Basu v. State of West Bengal (AIR 1997 SC 610) where the Supreme Court laid down specific guidelines required to be followed while making arrests.Justice Basu started his legal profession as an Advocate in the Calcutta High Court...

Siddique Kappan's Wife Sends Notice To UP Govt. Alleging Non-Compliance of SC's Order, Providing Misleading Info About His Medical Condition

The Wife of Journalist Siddique Kappan, Raihanath Kappan has sent a notice of contempt (through Advocate Wills Mathews) to the Uttar Pradesh Government Alleging Non-Compliance of Supreme Court's Order dated April 28 and also, for submitting wrong/misleading information before the SC regarding his medical status. Significantly, the Supreme Court had, on April 28 directed that...

Students Federation Of India(SFI) Moves Supreme Court Seeking Free COVID Vaccination For All, GST Waiver On Oxygen Concentrators

The Students Federation of India(SFI) has approached the Supreme Court with an application seeking directions to provide universal free vaccination to all citizens of India and to waive off the goods and service tax that has been levied on the import of the oxygen concentrators used for personal use. The Federation, through an application has sought direction Central Government and...

Supreme Court Directs Audit Of Medical Oxygen Supplied To States/UTs To Ensure Accountability

The Supreme Court has directed an audit of the supplies of liquid medical oxygen made by the Centre to all States and Union Territories."The purpose is to ensure that the supplies which have been allocated are reaching their destination; that they are being made available through the distribution network to the hospitals or, as the case may be, the end ...

Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Committee Takes Stock Of Child Care And Protection During COVID 19 Second Wave

Supreme Court's Juvenile Justice Committee, in coordination with UNICEF held a review meeting on Wednesday to take stock of actions taken by various states on child care, protection and wellbeing of the children during the second wave of the COVID-19. The Committee in its meeting chaired by Justice Ravindra Bhat who is the Chairperson of the Committee, deliberated upon the...

No Material Produced By Centre To Show Increasing Delhi's Oxygen Allocation By 210 MT Will Reduce Other States' Quota :Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to strictly observe its earlier direction of providing 700 MT of medical oxygen to the National Capital Territory of Delhi on a daily basis and affirmed that there shall be no reduction in the allocation and availability of medical oxygen.Observing that the Centre is under an obligation to ensure a daily supply of 700 MT to meet the existing...

BREAKING : Supreme Court Constitutes National Task Force To Formulate Methodology For Scientific Allocation Of Medical Oxygen To States, UTs

The Supreme Court has constituted a 12 member National Task Force to formulate a methodology for scientific allocation of liquid medical oxygen to all the States and Union Territories in order to deal with the dearth of oxygen supply amid the second Covid wave.A division bench comprising of Justice DY Chandrachud and MR Shah constituted the Task Force which will be at liberty to draw upon...

'Some Prisoners Might Not Be Willing To Be Released Due To Their Social Background': Supreme Court Issues Directions To Prison Authorities For Protection Of Inmates From COVID

The Supreme Court has asked the authorities to be considerate to concerns of inmates in relation to extraordinary cases of prisoners who might not be willing to be released from prisons during covid in view of their social background and the fear of becoming victims of the deadly virus.The bench made this observation while issuing a set of directions for release of certain categories of...

BREAKING- No Arrests In Violation Of Arnesh Kumar Verdict; HPCs Should Release All Prisoners Who Were Released Earlier : SC Passes Directions To De-Congest Prisons

Taking note of the surge of the second wave of COVID pandemic, the Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions to de-congest prisons.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justices L Nageswara Rao and Surya Kant passed the following directions in the suo moto case In Re Contagion of COVID Virus In Prisons.1. No Arrests In Violation of Arnesh Kumar judgmentThe Court held...

Evidence Act - Proviso 6 To Section 92 Will Not Apply If The Document Is Straightforward With No Ambiguity : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the proviso 6 to Section 92 of the Evidence Act will not apply if a document is straightforward, without any ambiguity in meaning.Section 92 of the Evidence Act bars giving oral evidence with respect to the contents of a written document. However, proviso 6 to Section 92 allows the admission of facts external to the document which shows in what manner the...

Orders Framing Charges Or Refusing Discharge Neither Interlocutory Nor Final; Not Affected By Bar U/Sec 397 (2) CrPC: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that orders framing charges or refusing discharge are neither interlocutory nor final in nature and are therefore not affected by the bar of Section 397 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.The bench headed by CJI NV Ramana observed thus while allowing appeal against the Allahabad High Court order which dismissed a Criminal Revision Petition against a...

After Allahabad HC's Notice To SEC, UP Govt. Announces 30 Lakh Compensation For Families Of Polling Officers Who Succumbed To Covid-19

Days after the Allahabad High Court took cognizance of alleged death of 135 polling officers in the State due to Covid-19, the UP Government has announced compensation of Rs.30,00,000/- for their bereaved families. "State Government had decided to give compensation of Rs.30,00,000/- to the family members of the deceased polling officers," the State Government informed a Division...