[Webinar] [Full Video] The Challenges Before Courts - By Gopal Subramanium, Senior Advocate , Supreme Court Of India

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SC Issues Notice To Centre On Plea Challenging Notification Suspending Certain Rules In Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules,1996 Amid Covid-19

Supreme Court issued notice in a plea challenging a 4th April notification issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare whereby certain Rules under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act have been suspended in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice UU Lalit, however, refused to stay the notification which is...

[Vizag Gas Leak] SC Asks Andhra Pradesh HC To Expedite Pleas By LG For Access To Plant, Restrains Disbursal Of 50 Crore Deposit For 10 Days

The Supreme Court on Monday requested the High Court of Andhra Pradesh to expeditiously decide the pending pleas of LG Polymers challenging sealing of the plant and praying for grant of access to the plant.A bench of Justices UU Lalit, MM Shantanagoudar & Vineet Saran also restrained the disbursal of the deposit amount of 50 Crores by LG Polymers for 10 days. This came in light of...

Revised Personal Data Protection Bill Allows The State To Unilaterally Infringe Right To Privacy In The Name Of SovereigntyAnd Security :Justice BN Srikrishna

"Unfortunately, in my opinion, Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 has watered down this provision which allow the State to unilaterally infringe the Fundamental Right to Privacy in the name of sovereignty and security. Hopefully, the 32 wise men in Delhi will ensure that this right is not infringed. The State can take away your rights, only if it can ensure that it is doing so for the...

'Places Of Worship Act Reflects The Commitment Of India To Secularism' : Jamiat Seeks To Implead Itself In Plea Challenging S.4 Of Places Of Worship Act [Read Petition]

The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has filed an application in Supreme Court seeking to implead itself as a party in a petition which challenges the constitutional validity of Section 4 of The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 (the Act). The petition in question, filed by Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh, claims that the aforementioned provision has the effect of preventing...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Week Commencing June 8 to June 14, 2020

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-18]

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[Black Lives Matter] 'Africans Are Our Friends' : Punjab & Haryana HC Directs Police Not To Use Racial Slur Against African Nationals

"We are, professedly, a tolerant sub-continent of "browns" in all its shades, but more often than not, display a perverted and primitive mind-set looking down on others without looking within ourselves. For many centuries we have been slaves. Freedom does not lend its wings to our countrymen to fly anywhere they wish and in any manner they like and abuse foreigners on the street calling...

[Sedition Cases] SC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Senior Journalist Vinod Dua [Read Order]

In a special Sunday sitting, the Supreme Court has granted interim Protection from arrest to Senior Journalist Vinod Dua in connection with an FIR registered by Himachal Police alleging Sedition A bench comprising Justices U U Lalit, Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Vineet Saran issued notice to the Centre, Himachal Pradesh government and police.The Following Directions were passed by the...

[Live-Updates] SC's Special Sunday Hearing On Plea By Journalist Vinod Dua Seeking Protection From Arrest

In a Special Sunday Sitting, the SC is hearing Journalist Vinod Dua's plea seeking protection from Arrest & all other coercive action in connection with FIRs filed against him in various states. It is alleged that Dua spread communal...

SC Registry Sets up 'Video Conferencing Facilitation Rooms' In Delhi's Seven District Court Complexes

The Supreme Court Registry has set up Videoconferencing facilitation rooms in designated rooms of seven District Courts across Delhi so as to facilitate VC hearings for Advocates, Parties In Person and Litigants.The circular dated June 13 states,"It is notified for the information of all concerned that in compliance with the directions of Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India, the Registry,...

Breaking: SC To Hold 'Special Sunday' Sitting Tomorrow To Hear Journalist Vinod Dua's Plea Seeking Protection From Arrest

In a special Sunday Sitting, the supreme court shall take up Vinod Dua's plea seeking quashing of FIR's filed against him from multiple states including the most recent one, registered in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.Journalist Vinod Dua was summoned by the Shimla Police in connection with a sedition charge levelled against him by local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ajay Shyam.The summons came...