On Friday, the Supreme Court has refused to issue general directions to release undertrial prisoners due to COVID -19 stating that it is an issue to be considered by the Jurisdictional high courts. Chief Justice SA Bodbe, justice AS Bopanna and Justice Hrishikesh Roy made these observations when they heard PIL by Activist Jagdeep chhokar
The Bombay HC on Friday passed the order directing the flight operators to allow the passengers to occupy the middle seat strictly. The SC had allowed Air India to operate international flights with occupancy in middle seat for 10 days, the Flight operators shall allow the passengers to occupy the middle seat strictly in compliance
A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, M R Shah and V Ramasubramanian asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to file Centre’s response on putting an upper limit on fees to be charged by private hospitals for treating Coronavirus patients. Court listed the matter after a week. The plea relies on several news reports which suggest that
The Kerala HC has refused to grant interim stay on the online classes conducted by Schools in Kerala during COVID-19 lockdown. A bench presided by Justice CS Dias was hearing a Petition filed by a parent of a child named CG Girija seeking direction to the State Government and Technology for education (KITE) to stop
Schools challenged the orders of the Administration in High Court to upload the balance sheets over the website. The court considering the matter stayed the proceedings to the 8th of June. The city’s private school organisation “Independent Schools Association”, Saupins School and Saint Soldier School challenged the orders of the Administration while presenting a petition
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Supreme Court that it is ultimately a doctor’s own responsibility to protect himself from COVID-19. The statement was made while replying to a plea questioning the Centre’s new guidelines for frontline COVID-19 healthcare workers by which it has ended the 14-day mandatory quarantine for them.
Temporary bail application of Asaram Bapu is rejected by the High Court of Gujarat on the grounds that the huge number of followers of Asaram Bapu will possibly congregate to meet him which is not safe for public during time of this COVID-19 pandemic and will only worsen the situation. The Bench presided by Justice
The SC on Thursday rejected its plea seeking the review of its earlier order granting bail to the former finance minister and congress leader P. Chidambaram. On 22nd October last year, the SC granted him bail on the case after reviewing all his alleged charges according to the provisions under Prevention of Corruption Act. After
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