SC Rejects Challenge Against Regularization Of Teachers In HP After 15 Years Of Service

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the challenge against the decision of Himachal Pradesh Government to regularize teachers who were appointed under under Primary Assistant Teachers (PAT) scheme, Para Teachers Policy and other schemes."we are of the view that when the appointees appointed under the scheme have completed more than almost 15 years of service now and also have acquired...

SC To List Review, Curative Petitions During Lockdown

The Supreme Court has informed that Curative Petitions and Review Petitions, which are ready for hearing, will be listed by Circulation in-Chambers during the lockdown period w.e.f. Tuesday the 21st April, 2020 as per the list to be issued separately. SC to list curative petitions and review petitions, which are ready for hearing, by circulation in chambers during lockdown period from April...

Breaking: J&K HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Domestic Violence Cases Amid Lockdown; Issues Guidelines [Read Order]

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday took suo moto cognizance of plight of victims in domestic violence cases amidst lockdown and issued notices to the concerned authorities to submit an action taken report. A division bench led by Chief Justice Gita Mittal noted that due to lockdown, victims of domestic violence have been trapped at homes with their abusers and have no access...

SC To List Hearing Matters In Family Law, Death Penalty Etc Via Video Conferencing On Joint Request

The Supreme Court has notified that short category matters, death penalty matters, and family law matters, which are ready, can be listed for hearing through video conferecing mode, subject to the availability of the concerned bench and the prior approval of the Chief Justice of India.Parties desirous of taking up such matters through video conferencing have to furnish joint consent along...

Permit Migrant Workers, Who Have Tested Negative For COVID, To Return To Native Places : Plea In SC

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court for enforcement of the Fundamental Right to Life of the lakhs of migrant workers stranded across the country, seeking a direction to the centre and the states to arrange for their safe travel to their hometowns and villages. The petitioners, Mr. Jagdeep S. Chhokar, former Dean, IIM-Ahmedabad and Mr. Gaurav Jain, advocate, have prayed that, in view...

Plea In SC Challenges Validity Of Government Order Directing 100% Payment Of Wages During Lockdown By Commercial Establishments [Read Petition]

A petition has been initiated in the Supreme Court for quashing of Government Order (GO) dated March 29 and March 31, 2020 to the extent of the direction to pay full salary to staff, contract workers, casual workers and other workers during the period of lockdown, even though factories are not operational."...challenging the constitutional validity of Government Order dated March 29, 2020,...

'ZOOM' Violates Right To Privacy: Letter Petition To CJI Seeks Ban On Video Conferencing App [Read Petition]

A Letter petition has been written to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde regarding the infringement of fundamental Right to Privacy on account of permitting the use of ZOOM – a video conferencing application, and seeks for the ban on its download and usage.The letter-petition comes at the heels of the advisory used by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 12.04.2020 which stated that ZOOM was not...

No Reservation In Promotions Without Examining Adequacy Of Representation In Promotional Posts : SC [Read Judgment]

Following the principle that reservation in promotions cannot be granted without examining adequacy of representation in promotional posts, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the quashing of a resolution passed Orissa Government.The impugned resolution passed in 2002 had provided reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotional posts in Orissa Administrative Service...

COVID19: Jammu & Kashmir HC Issues Various Directions Surrounding Issues Of Public Welfare & Safety Amid Lockdown

The Jammu & Kashmir High Court on Thursday passed multiple directions in matters pertaining to issues surrounding the public at large in view of the lockdown amid Coronavirus Outbreak.A bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal & Justice Rajnesh Oswal directed various concerned authorities to formulate reports and apprise the Court about the issues of welfare, safety, basic needs of the...

Plea In SC Seeks 'One Nation One Ration Card' Scheme To Ensure Availability of Subsidised Food Grains to Beneficiaries [Read Petition]

A petition filed in Supreme Court seeks the advanced implementation of the One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme to ensure availability of subsidised food grains to beneficiaries who are presently aggrieved amid the ongoing Corona Virus crisis.To this end, it has been prayed that the One Nation One Umbrella (ONOU) scheme may be temporarily adopted so that the rights of migrant workers and...

J&K HC Directs UT Administration To Ensure Welfare Of Migrant Workers & Contract Labourers

Taking stock of the deplorable conditions that a large number of migrant and contract workers are living under, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday directed the Divisional Commissioners of Jammu & Srinagar to submit a report to the tune of their conditions.In a well reasoned and detailed order, a bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal & Justice Rajnesh Oswal took note of...

'Once A Mortgage, Always A Mortgage' - Right To Redeem Mortgage Can Be Extinguished Only By Process Of Law : SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Friday decreed a suit filed in 1978 applying the principle that right to redeem a mortgage can be extinguished only by a process known to law."This emanates from the legal principle applicable to all mortgages – "Once a mortgage, always a mortgage"", observed a bench comprising Justices Mohan Shantanagoudar and R Subhash Reddy.The bench explained the principle as...