[COVID-19] Lawyer Files Complaint Against Singer Kanika Kapoor in Bihar Court

A criminal complaint was filed against singer Kanika Kapoor before a Bihar court on Saturday accusing her of neglecting and disobeying an order issued by a public servant to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus.The complaint was lodged by advocate Sudhir Kumar Ojha before the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Satish Chandra. It alleged that Kapoor hid the fact that she was...

SCAORA Suggests Measures For Restricted Court Functioning Due To COVID19 Pandemic

The Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association passed a resolution on Saturday urging the Court to declare at least two weeks vacation in view of the COVID 19 pandemic.In the alternative, the lawyers' body made the following suggestions : 1. Filing of matters be completely stopped except urgent matters pertaining to death warrant, bail/custody and habeas corpus petitions. 2. The bench...

Supreme Court Bar Association Urges SC To Declare Vacation From March 23 Due To COVID19

In the wake of the COVID19 pandemic, the Executive Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association passed a resolution of Saturday urging the SC to declare vacation for four weeks from March 23.The Association also suggested to adjust the lost dates in the forthcoming summer vacation.Taking note of the outbreak of Coronavirus, the Supreme Court has been following restricted functioning since March...

COVID-19: Madras HC Restricts All Protests Until Pandemic Threat Abates [Read Order]

In light of various measures being taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Madras High Court has ordered against conduct of any protests/processions/ demonstrations, etc. till the threat abates. While hearing a batch of petitions seeking direction to prevent agitations in various parts of the state, the court observed that the government had already issued an...

Delhi Riots: Delhi HC Issues Directions For Rehabilitation of Victims [Read Order]

In a petition seeking rehabilitation measures for the victims of Delhi Riots, the Delhi High Court today has passed a series of directions to augment the said process of relief and rehabilitation. The petition, moved by Shaikh Mujtaba Farooq, had sought court's directions to various authorities, such as Central and Delhi Government, to take measures to ensure that proper...

COVID19: "Removal Of Shaheen Bagh Protesters Imperative To Curb Spread Of Disease", Says Plea In SC

Amid a slew of plea's filed across courts in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, an application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking clearance of the Shaheen Bagh protest site, where a sit-in protest led by women against the CAA had been going on since December 15, 2019. A bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, Vineet Saran & Krishna Murari directed the...

Delhi HC Asks Kunal Kamra To Move Appropriate Authority With Challenge Against 'Travel Ban'.

The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain the petition filed comedian Kunal Kamra challenging the travel ban imposed on him by Indigo Airlines, Air India and Vistara.The Court told him to approach the 'appropriate authority' with his grievance. Accordingly, Kamra withdrew the petition, with liberty to avail alternate remedies.In an order dated 27/02/2020, the Internal Committee...

SC Stays Kerala & Allahabad HC Orders Which Stopped Recovery Measures By Tax Authorities, Banks Citing COVID19 [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the general orders passed by the High Courts of Allahabad and Kerala which restrained all recovery proceedings by tax authorities under State and Centre, and by Banks and other Financial Institutions until April 6.These High Courts had passed the stay orders to cut down litigation in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic.In SC, a bench comprising Justices A...

'Death Penalty Does Nothing To Improve Lives Of Women' : International Rights Bodies Condemn Execution In Nirbhaya Case

The International Commission of Jurists and the Amnesty International-India have condemned the execution of four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case."The death penalty is never the solution and today's resumption of executions adds another dark stain to India's human rights record. Indian courts have repeatedly found it to be applied arbitrarily and inconsistently. Even the...

Demand For Additional Tax U/s 143(1-A) IT Act Can Be Made Only If Assessee Intended To Evade Tax: SC [Read Judgment]

"The purpose and object by which taxing statutes have been enacted cannot be lost sight. "

SC Dismisses Applications Challenging K'taka Govt. Steps To Implement SC-ST Reservation In Promotions As 'Not Maintainable' [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has dismissed as not maintainable the miscellaneous applications challenging the directions and clarifications issued by the State government in implementing the Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservations (to the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act 2018. The bench of Justices Uday Umesh Lalit...

HC In Exercise Of Writ Jurisdiction Can Pass An Order Interdicting Legal Fiction, Provided It Had Not Come Into Operation: SC [Read Judgment]

"The scope of Article 226 is very wide and can be used to remedy injustice wherever it is found."