Breaking : PM Modi Announces 21 Days Country Wide Complete Lockdown To Combat COVID 19 Transmission [Read The Guidelines]

Prime Minister Narendara Modi on Tuesday announced three weeks country wide lockdown for 21 days, starting from 12 AM tonight.The PM said that this measure was absolutely necessary to stop the transmission of COVID-19 virus.The PM emphasized the need for maintaining 'social distancing' and appealed to the citizens to stay at home and follow health instructions to break the...

5 Years Of Shreya Singhal Judgment : Apar Gupta (Internet Freedom Foundation)

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Tips & Key Takeaways For Conquering Advocate-On-Record Exam: Hear It From The AoR Exam Toppers Of June 2019

The Supreme Court Advocate On Record (AoR) Examination Result for June 2019 was declared yesterday. Practicing at the top court of law in India requires robust expertise. According to numerous reports, only 18% of test takers pass the AOR exam which goes on to suggest that conquering the test is no easy task. So what does it take to crack the AOR Exam? Who better than...

Calcutta HC Initiates Contempt Against Lawyer Who Cursed Judge With COVID-19 Infection [Read Order]

The Calcutta High Court on Monday initiated criminal contempt proceedings against a lawyer, Advocate Bijoy Adhikary, for cursing the judge to contract Corona Virus because he refused to grant him his request of an urgent hearing in a matter.This development happened in a proceeding before Justice Dipankar Datta. After passing the order on the merits of the request, Datta J. took note of...

Rajasthan HC Directs ICMR To Instruct Hospitals Not To Discharge Corona Affected Patients Unless they Are Found Completely Cured [Read Order]

In a suo moto PIL registered to address the challenge of pandemic COVID-19, a division bench at the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court has asked the Director of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to pass necessary instructions to all medical and health agencies not to discharge a Corona Virus infected patient unless he is found completely virus free through blood...

Breaking: Calcutta HC Extends All Interim Orders Passed By It & Courts Subordinate To It [Read Order]

In a case registered suo moto, a Full Bench of the Calcutta High Court has extended the subsistence of all the interim orders passed by it and the courts subordinate to it till April 30, provided they were subsisting on March 16. The order is passed in the backdrop of "non-availability of access to Courts", due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. The extension has been granted by...

'Grant ₹ 20,000 Per Month Subsistence Allowance To Young Lawyers During Lockdown' :BCI Writes To PM, CMs [Read Letter]

Bar Council of India has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers of all States to provide a minimum sum of Rs. 20,000/- per month as subsistence allowance to young lawyers, specifically those who are not financially well/needy in view of the lockdown imposed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The letter implores the PM and the CMs on behalf of the legal...

No Charge On ATM Withdrawals For 3 Months ; Complete Waiver Of Minimum Balance Charge : Finance Ministry

As a part of relief measures announced in view of COVID-19 lockdown, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced complete waiver of minimum balance charges for savings bank accounts for next three months.Also, debit card holders who withdraw cash from any bank ATM can do it free of charge for the next three months."You may withdraw cash from any bank's ATM. You don't...

5 Years Of Shreya Singhal Judgment : Potential Remains Unfulfilled Due To Weak Enforcement

The Supreme Court of India's judgement in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India delivered on 24 March 2015 is a unicorn in Indian free speech jurisprudence. It was the first and only time a speech restricting law was struck down as unconstitutional instead of merely being read down. As noted by Sekhri and Gupta, the fact that impugned provision, Section 66A was a post-constitutional law which was routinely used by the police sets it apart from other pre-constitutional and rarely applied provisions...

COVID-19 : Penal Laws For Enforcing Pandemic Protocols [Explainer]

Many states in the country have declared lockdown as a precautionary measure to curb the transmission of COVID-19 pandemic.These orders are imposed invoking the powers under Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 and Disaster Management Act 2005. On the top of it, District Magistrates have imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in several districts.In this...

Class Action Suit Filed In US Seeking $20 Trillion Damages From China For COVID-19 Pandemic

The suit is based on a conspiracy theory that the virus is man-made, a claim discarded by scientific community.

Delhi HC Directs Delhi Govt To Deploy Doctors & Sanitation Workers In Mustafabad Camp For Riot Victims [Read Order]

Taking note of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed Delhi Government to ensure that adequate health care facilities are ensured in the Eidgah Old Mustafabad Camp, a place set up for the persons displaced during the Delhi Riots. The Division Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad has ordered the state government to ensure that...