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Plea In SC Seeks Direction To Centre To Ensure Refund Of Exorbitant Amounts Charged By Pvt. Labs, Hospitals For RT-PCR Tests
The Supreme Court on Saturday has been moved in a plea for direction to the Centre to ensure refund of "exorbitant" amounts charged by private labs and hospitals for conducting RT-PCR tests to detect COVID-19.The interim application has been filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ajay Agrawal in his pending PIL in which he had sought fixing of uniform rate of Rs 400 across India, as done by Odisha,...
Supreme Court Pulls Up Telangana Govt For 'Insensitivity' Towards Case Of BHEL Officer's Suicide Due To Workplace Sexual Harassment
The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on the Telangana government and the Telangana state police for their insensitive approach towards a BHEL employee who committed suicide last year on account of workplace sexual harassment.The bench of Justice A. M. Khanwilkar was hearing a writ petition, through advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, by the victim's mother seeking to urgently transfer...
High Courts Having No Commercial Division Competent To Consider Cancellation Of Design Under Section 22(4) Of Designs Act : Supreme Court
The judgment delivered by the Supreme Court on December 1 in the case S D Containers, Indore v M/s Mold Tek Packaging Ltd discusses the interplay between the Designs Act 2000 and the Commercial Courts Act 2015.A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi held that it is not necessary that a suit involving the issue of cancellation of design under Section 22(4) of...
Breaking- Arnab Goswami Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Direction To Trial Court To Not Take Cognizance Of Chargesheet In Anvay Naik Suicide Case
Republic TV Chief Arnab Gowswami has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raigad-Alibaigh, not to take cognizance of the final report filed by the Raigad Police on Friday, in a 2018 Anvay Naik abetment of suicide case. Goswami has alleged that the entire case reeks with malafide on part of the State Government and is an example of...
Will Consider Alternative Questions In CLAT 2021 For Visually Challenged Candidates: NLU Consortium Responds To Justice Chandrachud's Suggestions
The NLU Consortium has decided to consider if the option of alternative questions should be given in the CLAT examination to PwD candidates (Persons with Disabilities), particularly visually challenged candidates, so that they are not at any disadvantage vis-Ã -vis other candidates. The decision comes in the backdrop of recent remarks made by Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud, that the...
Is National Cooperative Society 'State' To Make Centre Liable For Salaries, Subsistence Allowances Of Employees?: Supreme Court To Consider
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider if a national cooperative society is 'State' for the purpose of Article 12 so as to attach the liability of payment of salaries and subsistence allowance of employees to the government.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran were hearing a writ petition by the NCCF (National Co-operative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd.) Employees...
SG Seeks More Time, Supreme Court Adjourns SNC Lavlin Case Hearing To January 7, 2021
Granting liberty to the CBI to file any additional documents, the Supreme Court on Friday listed the SNC Lavalin case for hearing on January 7, 2021 at the end of the board.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran was hearing the CBI appeal challenging the Kerala High Court verdict upholding a special court's decision to allow the discharge petition of Kerala Chief Minister...
Plea For Stringent Bail Provisions, Reverse Onus, Death Sentence For Rape: Supreme Court Asks Govt. To Consider
The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, refused to entertain a writ petition seeking a direction to the Government to bring certain reforms and amendments in the law to make it stringent and deterrent in cases of rape with grievous injury, gang rape and rape/gang-rape with murder.While disposing the writ petition filed by Advocate Kirti Ahuja and others, the Court, however, granted them liberty to...
Dowry Death - No Conviction Under Section 304B IPC If Unnatural Death Is Not Established : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that the offence of dowry death under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code cannot be made out if the cause of death has not been established as unnatural.The Court also held that it has to be shown that the deceased wife was subjected to cruelty or harassment in connection with demand for dowry soon before her death.Holding that these factors were not established,...
All Courts Must Endeavour Towards Creating an Active Environment for Disabled Lawyers: Justice Chandrachud
"All courts must also endeavour towards creating an active environment for disabled lawyers. There must be equal opportunity cells in the Supreme Court and in each High Court in the country...Our benchmarks reflect the outcome", said Justice DY Chandrachud on Thursday. He was speaking at the Valedictory Session of the 3-day International Summit on Legal Professionals with Disabilities,...
'Farmers Protest Increasing COVID-19 Risk' : Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Immediate Removal Of Protesters
A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking immediate removal of protesting farmers from border areas of Delhi-NCR on the ground that they increase the risk of COVID-19 spread in Delhi.The writ petition filed by one Rishabh Sharma, a law student, through Advocate Om Prakash Parihar, states that the protesters are "posing a hurdle for accessing emergency medical services"."It...
Dismissal Of SLP Has No Consequence On Question Of Law: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has observed that the the dismissal of special leave petition is of no consequence on the question of law.In this case, the Division Bench of the High Court set aside the Single Bench judgment that allowed the writ petitions for the grant of 9/16 years' time bound revised promotional scale to the petitioners. The division bench had followed the dictum of the judgment in...