Supreme Court 'Lost Its Way' While Cancelling Coal Blocks, 2G Licences: Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) The Supreme Court "lost its way" while cancelling all allocations of coal blocks, 2G spectrum licences and iron ore mining in Karnataka and Goa and its zeal to protect the environment dealt a serious blow to the country's economy, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said on Saturday.Referring to the taking over of the power to appoint judges in higher judiciary by...

Migrants Crisis : AP HC Says If Court Doesn't React, It Would Be Failing In Its Role; Issues Slew Of Directions [Read Order]

"This Court notices that hundreds of migrant labours with their children and baggage are walking on the National Highways... If at this stage, this Court does not react and pass these orders, this Court would be falling in its role as a protector and alleviator of suffering. Their pain has to be alleviated at this stage." Taking note of the miserable state of migrant labours in...

'The Walking Migrants Of This Country Need You' : Sr Adv Jaideep Gupta Urges SC To 'Pick Up The Brief Again'

'The Supreme Court could have done a lot', he said.

'It's A Pity To See Migrant Labourers Walking' : Madras HC Seeks Action Taken Report From Centre & State On Migrants Relief [Read Order]

The Madras High Court on Friday suo moto directed the Central Government and the Government of Tamil Nadu to submit an action taken report on the measures taken to alleviate the sufferings of migrant workers amid the COVID-19 lockdown situation."It is a pity to see the migrant labourers walking for days together to reach their native places and in the process, some of them had lost their...

Plea In SC Seeks Mechanism To Avail Private Facility for Covid-19 Quarantine As Per The Choice And Affordability of Patient

The Supreme Court has been moved in a PIL seeking directions to the Centre for deploying additional relief measures- to immediately enroll more Private Hospitals for Post Infection Treatment and private entities for quarantine facilities, and to frame and advertise the mechanism to avail these facilities as per the choice and affordability of the patient- to address the concerns which have...

Ensure That No Migrants Walk On Roads/Rails; Counsel Them To Go To Shelter Homes : MHA Tells States

The Union Home Secretary, Sh. Ajay Bhalla, wrote to the Chiref Secretaries of all States urging them to ensure migrant workers are not walking on roads and railway tracks after their movement has been facilitated by the Government.Now that 'Shramik' trains and special buses have been deployed by the Centre to cater to the transportation need of migrant workers, the onus of implementing...

Delhi HC Extends The Operation of Interim Orders Subsisting on May 15 For One More Month In Light of Continuing Lockdown [Read Order]

In light of the nationwide lockdown declared by the Central Government, the Delhi High Court has extended the operation of all the interim orders that were subsisting on 15/05/20 and expired or will expire thereafter. While taking the suo moto cognizance of the issues, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel, Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Talwant Singh have ordered...

Vision Of Trust, Empathy, Sustainibility & Transparency Will Steer Through : CJI SA Bobde & Justice DY Chandrachud Inaugurate SC E-Filing Module

In a momentous step towards comprehensive digitisation of the Top Court, the Supreme Court on Friday inaugrated the online e-filing module via a live telecast.The telecast of this live demo circumscribed a step-by-step understanding of how to use the e-filing processes.Chief Justice SA Bobde & Justice DY Chandrachud (who also heads the E-filing committee of the SC) along with SCBA...

SC Says No Coercive Action Against Employers In Two Pleas Challenging MHA Order On Full Payment Of Wages; No Interim Order In Connected Cases

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central Government on a batch of petitions challenging the direction passed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on March 29 directing employers to pay full wages to workers without deduction during lockdown.However, in two case, the bench issued an interim order restraining coercive action against the employer for a period of one week...

[Breaking] SC Curtails Summer Vacations; Period Till June 19 Notified As Regular Functioning

Taking note of the restricted functioning imposed by COVID-19 lockdown, the Supreme Court on Friday decided to curtail the summer vacation, and decided to have regular functioning till June 19. The top court conducted a full court meeting through "circulation of views" which was of the view that work should continue as much as possible, at least till June 19, 2020.A full court meeting...

Repatriation Of Indians Granted Amnesty In Kuwait : SC Asks Petitioner To Move Representation Before Centre

The Supreme Court on Friday instructed the Counsel to make appropriate representation before the Government in a plea seeking repatriation of Indian citizens and migrant workers languishing in detention camps and/or granted amnesty by State of Kuwait.A bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Sanjay Kishan Kaul & BR Gavai were hearing a the petitition filed by 4 Indians who had...

Breaking: Allahabad HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To 'The Wire' Editor Siddharth Varadarajan, Accused Of Making Objectionable Remarks Against UP CM [Read Orders]

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has allowed anticipatory bail application filed by Founding-Editor of the Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan.The Bench of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh refused to accept the argument that the applicant may flee from the country and allowed his pre-arrest bail plea on his executing a personal bond to the tune of Rs.2,00,000/- (Rupees Two Lakh) with...