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Baba Ramdev & Acharya Balkrishna Personally Apologise To Supreme Court, Patanjali Ltd Agrees To Publish Public Apology
Baba Ramdev, co-founder of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, personally appeared before the Supreme Court on Tuesday (April 16) and expressed unconditional apology for publishing misleading advertisements and making comments against Allopathic medicines in breach of an undertaking given to the Court.Acharya Balkrishna, the Managing Director of Patanjali, also personally apologised to the Court....
Plea For 100% VVPAT Verification Of EVM Votes : Live Updates From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear today petitions seeking 100% verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips.A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will hear the petitions filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms and others.Responding to the petition filed by ADR, the Election Commission of India had cited practical difficulties in verifying all VVPATs. Earlier, a bench led...
'UGC Regulations Binding On Universities' : Supreme Court Directs Regularization Of Teachers At Jamia Milia Islamia
Observing that the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations are binding on the Universities, the Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) directed the reinstatement of the teachers at Jamia Milia Islamia (“University”) on a permanent basis who were denied regularization by the University even after UGC's letter to University directing regularization of the teachers who were selected through...
Contempt Case Against Patanjali, Baba Ramdev : Live Updates From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear today the contempt case against Patanjali Ayurved, its MD Acharya Balkrishna & Baba Ramdev for publishing misleading medical advertisements.On the previous hearing date, the Court had rejected the second apology tendered by Patanjali. The Court also noted that Balkrishna and Ramdev had sworn an affidavit with non-existing flight tickets to evade...
Supreme Court Asks Allahabad HC To Enable E-Filing & Virtual Appearance Facilities At UP District Courts
The Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) asked the Registrar General of the Allahabad High Court to enable e-filing facility at e-Sewa Kendras of all the District Courts in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The Court also stated that a hybrid hearing before the High Court through a virtual set-up in the District Courts of Western UP may take place in compliance with the Allahabad High Court Rules...
Statement Made Before Court Ultimately Matters Than Statement Under Section 50 PMLA : Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Monday (April 15) orally observed that there was a difference between the admissibility of a statement of an accused recorded under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and its evidentiary value.Justice Khanna observed that the evidence before the Court is the actual statement made by the person in the Court itself and not...
IT Rules 2021 | FCU Meant For Total State Censorship On Anything Govt Doesn't Want People To Know, Discuss, Debate Or Question: Kunal Kamra Tells Bombay High Court
On Monday, the petitioners in pleas challenging the 2021 IT Amendment told the Bombay High Court that the purpose of a government fact check unit (FCU) is not to protect the public from misinformation but to bring total state censorship over anything that the government does not want people to know, discuss, debate or question.“Under the impugned Rule, it is not the actual falseness or...
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear PIL Seeking Appointment Of Persons With Disabilities In District Judiciary
The Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) issued notice in a Public Interest Litigation raising the issue of exclusion of Persons With Disabilities from appointment to the District Judiciary in many States.The petitioner contends that the judicial service rules of many States do not provide for the PwD (Persons with Disability) Quota, under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016.The...
Supreme Court Rejects Advocates' Challenge To Gujarat HC's Order Directing Investigation Against Them For Allegedly Forging Vakalatnama
The Supreme Court (on April 15) refused to interfere in a petition filed by two practising advocates from Gujarat challenging an inquiry ordered by the Gujarat High Court against them for alleged misconduct of forging their client's vakalatnama. The matter was considered by a bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta. Senior Advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Yatin Oza appeared for...
Muzaffarnagar School Slapping Case | What Steps Taken To Prosecute Offender? Supreme Court Asks UP Govt
The Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) asked the State of Uttar Pradesh about the steps taken to prosecute the offender in the Muzaffarnagar school slapping case. The case related to the alleged incident where a teacher at a school in Muzaffarnagar asked her students to slap a student and allegedly uttered communal slurs against him.The Court asked Additional Advocate General Garima Prashad...
Supreme Court Rejects Plea Seeking Voting Arrangements For Displaced Manipuris, Says Too Late To Issue Directions To Election Commission
The Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) declined to entertain a petition seeking voting arrangements for approximately18,000 who got displaced from Manipur due to the ethnic clash to cast their votes in their home constituency in the Lok Sabha General Elections scheduled to take place on April 19 and 26. The bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra...
Supreme Court Appreciates Railways For Steps Taken To Implement Anti-Collision 'Kavach' System In Trains
Appreciating the steps taken by Indian Railways for the implementation of 'Kavach (anti-collision) System' in trains, the Supreme Court on Monday (April 15) disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL).The PIL was filed by Advocate Vishal Tiwari following the Balasore train accident of last year seeking improvement of the anti-collision measures in railways.The Bench Comprising Justices...