Permit Migrant Workers, Who Have Tested Negative For COVID, To Return To Native Places : Plea In SC

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court for enforcement of the Fundamental Right to Life of the lakhs of migrant workers stranded across the country, seeking a direction to the centre and the states to arrange for their safe travel to their hometowns and villages. The petitioners, Mr. Jagdeep S. Chhokar, former Dean, IIM-Ahmedabad and Mr. Gaurav Jain, advocate, have prayed that, in view...

Plea In SC Challenges Validity Of Government Order Directing 100% Payment Of Wages During Lockdown By Commercial Establishments [Read Petition]

A petition has been initiated in the Supreme Court for quashing of Government Order (GO) dated March 29 and March 31, 2020 to the extent of the direction to pay full salary to staff, contract workers, casual workers and other workers during the period of lockdown, even though factories are not operational."...challenging the constitutional validity of Government Order dated March 29, 2020,...

'ZOOM' Violates Right To Privacy: Letter Petition To CJI Seeks Ban On Video Conferencing App [Read Petition]

A Letter petition has been written to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde regarding the infringement of fundamental Right to Privacy on account of permitting the use of ZOOM – a video conferencing application, and seeks for the ban on its download and usage.The letter-petition comes at the heels of the advisory used by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 12.04.2020 which stated that ZOOM was not...

No Reservation In Promotions Without Examining Adequacy Of Representation In Promotional Posts : SC [Read Judgment]

Following the principle that reservation in promotions cannot be granted without examining adequacy of representation in promotional posts, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the quashing of a resolution passed Orissa Government.The impugned resolution passed in 2002 had provided reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotional posts in Orissa Administrative Service...

COVID19: Jammu & Kashmir HC Issues Various Directions Surrounding Issues Of Public Welfare & Safety Amid Lockdown

The Jammu & Kashmir High Court on Thursday passed multiple directions in matters pertaining to issues surrounding the public at large in view of the lockdown amid Coronavirus Outbreak.A bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal & Justice Rajnesh Oswal directed various concerned authorities to formulate reports and apprise the Court about the issues of welfare, safety, basic needs of the...

Plea In SC Seeks 'One Nation One Ration Card' Scheme To Ensure Availability of Subsidised Food Grains to Beneficiaries [Read Petition]

A petition filed in Supreme Court seeks the advanced implementation of the One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme to ensure availability of subsidised food grains to beneficiaries who are presently aggrieved amid the ongoing Corona Virus crisis.To this end, it has been prayed that the One Nation One Umbrella (ONOU) scheme may be temporarily adopted so that the rights of migrant workers and...

J&K HC Directs UT Administration To Ensure Welfare Of Migrant Workers & Contract Labourers

Taking stock of the deplorable conditions that a large number of migrant and contract workers are living under, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday directed the Divisional Commissioners of Jammu & Srinagar to submit a report to the tune of their conditions.In a well reasoned and detailed order, a bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal & Justice Rajnesh Oswal took note of...

'Once A Mortgage, Always A Mortgage' - Right To Redeem Mortgage Can Be Extinguished Only By Process Of Law : SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Friday decreed a suit filed in 1978 applying the principle that right to redeem a mortgage can be extinguished only by a process known to law."This emanates from the legal principle applicable to all mortgages – "Once a mortgage, always a mortgage"", observed a bench comprising Justices Mohan Shantanagoudar and R Subhash Reddy.The bench explained the principle as...

Return Of Indians From Abroad Can't Be Decided For One State Alone, Centre Tells Kerala HC [Read Order]

A decision on the repatriation of Indians stranded abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be taken for one state alone, said the Central Government before the High Court of Kerala on Friday. A bench comprising Justices Raja Vijayaraghavan and T R Ravi was hearing three writ petitions which sought, inter alia, directions for the return of Keralites stranded in Gulf Cooperation...

Saradha Scam : SC Seeks Centre's Reply On Media Tycoon Ramesh Gandhi's Bail Plea

The Supreme Court on Friday in a bail plea of Media Tycoon Ramesh Gandhi directed the Union to file its reply within two weeks.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul & B.R. Gavai heard the petition for regular bail of Ramesh Gandhi, who has been in custody for 4 years and 8 months basis charges levied against him for his alleged complicity in the Saradha scam.Senior Advocate Vikas...

Interim Orders Restraining IDBI Trusteeship From Selling Future Retails Shares To Continue: SC

The Supreme Court on Friday directed that the ad-interim protection granted to Future Retail by Bombay High Court, wherein it restrained IDBI Trusteeship & UBS Bank from invoking & selling shares of Future Retail Ltd shall continue till May 4. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul & B.R. Gavai refused to interfere in the order of ad-interim protection passed by the Bombay High...

Jharkhand HC Grants Bail On Condition To Donate To 'PM CARES Fund' & Download 'Aarogya Setu App' [Read Order]

Jharkhand High Court has allowed bail to a former Member of Parliament and five others on the condition that they shall deposit an amount of Rs 35,000 each in Prime Minister Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM-CARES) and show proof of payment before the court.While delivering the order Justice Anubha Rawat Choudhary also directed the petitioners to download the...