PRIVATE HOSPITALS TO RESERVE 20% BEDS FOR COVID PATIENTS AND ALSO PERMITTED TO CONDUCT COVID -19 TESTS ON SUSPECTED NON COVID PATIENT: DIRECTS DELHI HC

The order has been issued in a PIL filed by Mr. Rakesh Malhotra seeking a direction to be provided to the Delhi government in order to increase the testing capacity for both kinds of patients whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. It has been directed by the Delhi HC that all the private hospitals who are enlisted

Uttarakhand HC Orders Former CMs to Pay Market Rates for Continued Stay in Bungalows

The Uttarakhand HC on Tuesday ruled against the state law that allows former chief ministers to stay in government bungalows without paying the market rent. The Uttarakhand Government, however enacted the Uttarakhand Former Chief Ministers Facility Act, 2019 in January 2020 exempting the former CMs from paying rent for bungalows allotted to them by the

VIRTUAL HEARING IN PANDEMIC CRISES

Author :- Mayank Suryan As the crises started due to the pandemic disease the novel coronavirus which has been identified as the public health emergency of international concern by world health organization. The outbreak of novel COVID-19 is the reason for the nationwide lockdown which was declared by the government. It is an unfathomable time

IS IT TIME TO REPEAL SECTION 124A IPC?

Author : Anushka Ukrani, Law Graduate from CLC (Delhi University) INTRODUCTION A few months back a school principle in Karnataka was arrested for an allegedly seditious school play protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. And this is not an isolated incident. In the past few months a lot of people who had been protesting against

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES (SECTION 188 IPC AND COVID-19)

Author – Sanighdha (University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University) “The  main  political  problem  is  how  to  prevent  police  power  from  becoming  tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.” – Ludwig Von Misses INTRODUCTION: Martin Luther King Jr. once famously remarked, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Criminal  justice