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'Only 3 Women Judges From Bar In Kerala HC In 64 Years; Many Competent Women Lawyers Available' : Outgoing Judge Justice PV Asha
Outgoing judge of the Kerala High Court, Justice PV Asha, in her farewell speech underscored the need for more women representation in judiciary.Justice Asha noted that only 3 women have been appointed as judges of the Kerala High Court from the bar in its history of 64 years. She was the second woman judge to be appointed from the bar, after Justice KK Usha. There was a gap of 23 years...
BREAKING : Calcutta High Court Grants Interim Bail To 4 Trinamool Leaders In Narada Case
A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to four Trinamool Congress leaders- Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee- who have been under judicial custody since their arrest by the CBI in the Narada case on May 17. They were placed under house arrest on May 19, following a split in the division bench on the question of interim bail,...
Can't Subject A Citizen Not Wearing Mask/Following Lockdown Norms To Corporal Punishment: MP High Court Orders Action Against Policemen
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday (May 27) reiterated its earlier direction that no citizen who is found not wearing mask or not following social distancing norms or not following lockdown conditions should be subjected to corporal punishment or beating. The Bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Atul Sreedharan observed thus while directing the Superintendent of...
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...