Plea In SC Seeks Directions To Increase Ambulance Services & Mobilise Resources For Mitigating COVID Crisis

Adding to various pending pleas pertaining to Covid-related issues in the Top Court, a fresh PIL has been filed for directions to increase ambulance services to cater to the surging covid positive numbers in the country.An NGO named "Earth" has filed the instant plea through Advocate Dhruv Tamta. It seeks intervention of the court viz. directions to the Centre and State Governments...

SC Allows Woman With Twin Pregnancy To Medically Terminate One Foetus With Down Syndrome [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted a woman, bearing 25 weeks old twin pregnancy, to undergo procedure for foetal reduction, on the grounds of "serious foetal abnormalities". The bench of Justices R. Banumathi, Indu Malhotra and Aniruddha Bose allowed the special leave petition, preferred against the order of the Bombay High Court, whereby the Petitioner was...

SC Issues Notice On Plea Against Conditions Introduced By IBC Amendment Act 2020 For Homebuyers' Insolvency Petitions

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on petitions which challenge the constitutional validity of the conditions introduced by Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 on the homebuyers' right to file insolvency petition against defaulting builders. A bench comprising Justices R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and B R Gavai also ordered status quo on the petitioner's...

Bar On 'Transfer/Assignment' Of Agricultural Land To Non-Agriculturist Applicable To Testamentary Disposition Also: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Section 63 of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 debars an agriculturist from parting with his agricultural land to a non-agriculturist through a "Will". The three-judge bench headed by Justice U. U. Lalit, in dismissing the appeals against the impugned Gujarat High Court judgment, also held that Section 43(1) of the Tenancy...

COVID-19 : Section 1B Of SC Registry Shuts Amid Reports Of Staffers Testing Corona Positive

Amid the steady rise of COVID-19 cases in India, especially in the National Capital, Section 1B of the Supreme Court Registry was closed off on Tuesday.Sources suggest that it will continue to remain inaccessible for the next couple of days.While it is being stated that the move to cordon off this section is in keeping with the routine sanitization process of the Court, officials from...

SC Issues Notice On Plea To Direct Goa Assembly Speaker To Decide On Disqualification Of 10 MLAs

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea seeking to direct the Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly to take a decision on the disqualification of 10 defected Congress MLA's within one month.A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna & MR Shah issued "early notice" returnable within three weeks, on the plea filed by Mr. Girish Chodankar, Goa Congress...

'Tell Your Grievance To Gujarat HC CJ' : SC Tells GHCAA President Yatin Oza; Plea Withdrawn

“Don’t make allegations that injustice has been caused to you” said CJI SA Bobde

Registration And Sale Of BS-IV Vehicles Is Not Permitted: SC [Read Order]

The Supreme court has made it clear that no registration and sale of the BS—IV vehicles is permitted. The court had on March 27 said it was permitting sale of 10 percent of unsold BS-IV vehicles to make up for six days lost due to the lockdown which was imposed on March 25. When the matter was taken up yesterday through video conferencing, the bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and...

SC Issues Notice On Plea To Direct Insurers To Provide Medical Insurance For Mental Illness Treatment

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and the Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI) in a plea seeking for directions with respect to violation of Section 21(4) of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 whereby insurers are bound to provide medical insurance for treatment of mental illness. A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices Rohinton F....

Plea In SC Alleges That Registry's 'Pick & Choose' Policy For Listing Discriminatory, Seeks Court's Intervention To End Preferential Treatment

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions of impartiality and equal treatment to Registry of the Top Court in matters of listing cases, without adopting a "pick and choose" policy.The petition by way of a Public Interest Litigation has been filed by Lawyer Reepak Kansal and avers that the intervention of the Court is necessary in order to dissuade the Registry eco-system...

Virtual Courts An Attempt From Judiciary To tell The Citizens that "We Value Your Time":.Justice Chandrachud Inaugurates Kerala HC's e-Project

Justice DY Chandrachud has inaugurated Kerala High Court 's e-Module in consonance with the High Courts e-Committee via a live telecast.He termed the virtual courts as citizen-centric and said it is an attempt from the judiciary to tell the citizens that "we value your time".Inauguration of this E-module encompassed introductions to the "Interoperable Bail Module and E-filings in High Court...

Employees Cannot Be Fired Merely For Being Homosexual Or Transgender: US Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

"An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law."