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Uniform RTPCR, RAT Rates; ICU Control Rooms; Guidelines On Mucormycosis: Punjab and Haryana High Court Issues Directions
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued slew of directions on the aspects concerning uniformity in rates of RAT and RTPCR in States including Punjab, Haryana and UT of Chandigarh, ICU Control Rooms, over charging of private hospitals and the need for States to examine Centre's guidelines for screening and diagnosis of Mucormycosis or black fungus.A division bench comprising...
Probe How Celebrities, Politicians Got COVID Drugs : Bombay High Court Tells State
The Bombay High Court on Thursday urged the State not to drop the ball on its inquiry into the private distribution of Remdesivir injections by politicians and celebrities after noting discrepancies in the responses received by the Drug Inspector. The bench said that while manufacturers seem to have told the Union of India that they have provided Remdesivir only to the Government,...
Traceability Rule Will Break End-To-End Encryption; Can Put Privacy Of Journalists, Activists, Politicians At Risk : WhatsApp Tells Delhi High Court
In its plea to challenge the traceability clause as mentioned under Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology Rules, 2021, WhatsApp has contended that the aforesaid requirement will "force it to build the ability to identify the first originator for every message sent in India on its platform upon request by the government forever." Relying heavily on the judgment of KS Puttuswamy v. Union...
Photos Showed Her To Be Cheerful, Not Traumatized, No 'Rape-Victim' Behaviour : Goa Court In Tarun Tejpal Case
Seen at late-night parties, smiling in pictures on subsequent days are some of the observations made by the fast-track court in Goa about the victim, to hold that she did not "demonstrate" a rape victim behaviour. "The photos show the prosecutrix to be absolutely cheerful and with a smile on her face and not disturbed, reserved, terrified or traumatised in any manner," special...
Expulsion From Knanaya Catholic Church For Marrying Outside Community Unconstitutional, Against Jesus's Teachings : Kerala Court
A civil court in Kerala has ruled that the practice of expelling a member from Knanaya Catholic Church for marrying outside the community is unconstitutional for being violative of right to marry under Article 21 and right to religion under Article 25 of the Constitution of India.The Additional Sub Court at Kottayam held that the practice of compulsive endogamy in the church is in violation...
Reconsider Vaccination Policy's Efficacy, Consider Procuring Vaccine Doses From Outside India Rather Than Asking States To Do So: MP High Court To Centre
Noting that Madhya Pradesh has not received even half of the promised quantity of the vaccination doses for the month of May 2021, the Madhya Pradesh High Court asked the Central Government: "To take upon itself the responsibility of providing required number of vaccination doses to the State by setting up more and more units in all the States with required licence from the...
Supreme Court Stays Rajasthan High Court Order Which Restrained Police From Arresting Accused In Cases Where Maximum Sentence Is Up To 3 Years
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Rajasthan High Court Order which restrained the police from making the arrest of the accused persons, who are charged with an offence where the maximum sentence is up to three years, till 17th July, 2021.The Supreme Court has also stayed the direction of High Court Single Bench which directed The Registrar (Judicial), Jaipur Bench, Jaipur &...
Supreme Court Stays Allahabad High Court Order Which Held Apprehension Of Death Due To COVID A Ground For Anticipatory Bail
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Allahabad High Court Judgment which held that apprehension of death on account of reasons like the COVID pandemic is a valid ground for grant of anticipatory bail.The Court ordered that this Allahabad High Court judgment should not be cited as a precedent for grant of anticipatory bail and that the Courts shall not rely on the observations in the High...
Right To Be Forgotten- Delhi High Court Directs Google, Indian Kanoon To Remove/Block Judgment Of American Citizen Acquitted In NDPS Case
In a case involving the question of Right to Privacy of a person and Right to Information of public and maintenance of transparency in judicial records, the Delhi High Court recently granted interim protection to an American Citizen of Indian origin by directing Indian Kanoon to block the judgement of his acquittal under NDPS Act from being accessed by using search engines such as...
'Not Good For States To Rival Each Other In Race For Vaccines' : Madras HC Suggests Vaccine Allocation By Centre
Expressing concerns about the tendency of states to be rivals against each other in the "race to obtain vaccines", the Madras High Court on Monday suggested that the Centre should allocate the vaccines.Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee, speaking on behalf of a Bench comprising himself and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy orally expressed the view that various states were facing problems...
"Now You Have Excess Money From RBI? Why Don't You Give Vaccine Free, At Least For Poor?" Kerala High Court Suggests To Centre
Referring an Indian Express news report, the Kerala High Court pointed out that the Centre could use the excess dividend of Rs.99,000 crore received from the Reserve Bank of India to procure vaccines. Justice K Vinod Chandran made this suggestion when a bench comprising himself and Justice MR Anitha Court took two petitions challenging the Centre's Liberalised Pricing and...