[COVID-19] 'Curb On Exorbitant Rates Charged By Ambulances Required': SC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Mobilising Ambulance & Resources

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice in a PIL seeking directions to increase ambulance services to cater to the surging covid positive numbers in the country.Advocate Dhruv Tamta appeared for an NGO named "Earth" which filed the instant plea. When the matter came up for hearing before a bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, SK Kaul and MR shah, Justice Bhushan orally remarked...

Can The Remaining Exams Of Class XII Be Scrapped And Marks Be Allotted On The Basis Of Internal Assessment :SC Asks CBSE To Take A Decision

The Supreme Court has directed Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) to hold consultation and take a decision by next week regarding the conduct of Board examinations in a plea seeking cancellation of Class XII exams which are to be held in July in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.A Bench comprising of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjeev Khanna has directed...

No Merit In 'Charging Interest On Interest' For Deferred Payments During Moratorium, Says SC

The bench was told that 90% of borrowers have not availed moratorium.

Death Penalty Cannot Be Imposed By Giving Retrospective Effect To POCSO Amendment To An Offence Committed Prior To Amendment: SC [Read Order]

"The punishment of not being released till his last breath is punitive enough to send a signal to the society and it cannot be that only the death sentence can send a right signal"

SC Asks Centre To Pass Orders To States/UTs Ensure Payment Of Salaries To Healthworkers [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to pass appropriate directions under the Disaster Management Act to the Chief Secretaries of all States/Union Territories to ensure that directions for payment of salaries to doctors and health workers are complied with.Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the bench that non-payment of salary will attract penal consequences under the...

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