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Upholding Love : In Last One Month, Allahabad High Court Grants Protection To Over 125 Inter-Faith/Caste Couples
A survey of the orders passed by the Allahabad High Court in the month of November shows that it has granted relief to over hundred couples of inter-faith or inter-caste marriages.In orders passed in 117 cases last month, the High Court asked the Senior Superintendent of Police of the concerned district to act upon the complaints of the couples, who were facing threat to life and liberty...
Supreme Court Directs For Initiation Of Pilot Project In Video Conferencing Facilities For Deposition Of Children/Witnesses In Trafficking Cases
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed States of West Bengal, Assam and Rajasthan to initiate the first stage of a pilot project pertaining to the relevant infrastructure for video conferencing facilities being made available for deposition of children/witnesses in trafficking cases. Further, all State Governments have been directed to provide numbers of children/witnesses of...
Pasting Posters Outside COVID-19 Patients' Homes Leads Them To Be Treated As 'Untouchables': Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that the practice of conspicuously affixing posters outside the residence of COVID19 positive patients creates stigma and often leads to a situation where patients may be treated as so called "untouchables".A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, BR Gavai & MR Shah made the observations while hearing a plea which has challenged the decision of various...
'No One Can Suppress Facts' : Supreme Court Pulls Up Gujarat Govt. Over Rajkot COVID-19 Hospital Fire
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Gujarat Government in a matter pertaining to the fire which had broken out at a COVID-19 designated hospital in Rajkot, Gujarat on 27th November, killing five persons.A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan adjourned the matter to Thursday, while noting that the State could not suppress facts and that the same had to come out in a correct...
Children To Be Restored From Children Homes To Parents/Guardians Only After Individual Assessment As Per Juvenile Justice Act : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that restoration of children from children homes to parents/guardians only after individual assessment under Section 40(3) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015.As per Section 40(3), suitability and fitness of the parents/guardians have to be ascertained by the Child Welfare Committee before restoring children to them. A Bench headed by Justice L....
Supreme Court Dismisses Chanda Kochhar's Challenge Against ICICI Bank Terminating Her Services
Noting that the only controversy involved is that of the bank having earlier accepted her resignation and subsequently, terminated her, the Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that the issue being of the contractual relationship between a private bank and its employee, it did not call for invocation of the writ jurisdiction, and dismissed former ICICI bank MD Chanda Kochhar's plea.The bench...
Ex-AP High Court Judge Moves Supreme Court Against HC Order For Probe Into Phone Call Conspiracy Against CJ & SC Judge
Retired Andhra Pradesh High Court Judge, Justice V. Eswaraiah. has moved the Supreme Court against a Division Bench order of the Andhra Pradesh High Court which directed an investigation into a an alleged private phone conversation between him and a suspended District Munsif Magistrate of Andhra Pradesh after alleging that the phone call disclosed a "serious conspiracy" against the High...
Siddique Kappan's Arrest : Kerala Union Of Working Journalists Seeks Independent Enquiry By Retired SC Judge
The Kerala Union of Working Journalists has sought an independent enquiry by a retired Supreme Court Judge, to determine the facts connected with the alleged illegal arrest and detention of journalist Siddique Kappan by Uttar Pradesh police while he was proceeding to report the Hathras crime. The prayer has been made in a rejoinder affidavit filed by the organization...
UP Ordinance Against Religious Conversions By Marriage Puts Freedom Of Choice & Dignity On Backseat : Justice Madan Lokur
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur criticized the recent Ordinance brought by the Uttar Pradesh Government to criminalize religious conversions by marriage.The judge described the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020, promulgated last week, as "placing on the backseat the freedom of choice and dignity". "States of Madhya Pradesh,...
Conduct Of Public Bodies Has To Be Fair & Not Arbitrary; Do Not Force Citizens To Approach Courts : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that, the conduct of a public body charged to uphold the rule of law, has to be fair and not arbitrary.The court observed thus while dismissing Gujarat Maritime Board's appeal against the High Court judgment which allowed the writ petition filed by "Asiatic Steel" Court seeking refund of contract consideration of ₹3,61,20,000/- paid by them to the Board. In the...
