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On March 30, a division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice B V Nagarathna suggested that the government should coordinate with the NGOs. Consequently, the State Government informed the Karnataka High Court about an internet portal called...

No private school is allowed to increase school fee during the lockdown. Only the tuition fee will be charged until the time schools reopen considering the financial crisis due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia...

The Karnataka High Court has decided to extend the interim orders passed by all courts and tribunals in the state. These include the High Court, all the District Courts, Civil Courts, Family Courts, Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunals and all...

A PIL seeking a waiver of school fees has been filed in the Delhi High Court. Filed by Amit Sahni, the plea prays for the waiver given the lockdown. The petitioner highlights the financial constraints faced by parents amid...

A petition was listed before the Supreme Court on the use of Unani and Homeopathic medicines to treat COVID-19 on April 15, 2020. The petitioner argued that there are no medicines or treatments available for the novel coronavirus. Thus,...

Rajesh A Nair resident of Thrissur filed a petition before the Kerala High Court alleging sighting of a mysterious figure at night. It is alleged that some unidentified people were involved in unlawful activities and were keeping people away...

A doctor filed a PIL in SC seeking a direction to the Centre to require all state governments compulsorily to start the rapid antibody testing as a screening tool for COVID-19. Advocate Rishi Jain bought in the petition. On April...

Scholar Anand Teltumbde along with Activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday. The case was registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) alleging Maoist links in connection with Bhima Koregaon case. The activists, who...

A Public Interest Litigation(PIL) has been filed in the Karnataka High Court against Jubilant Generics Limited, where over 27 of its workers with no travel history tested positive for COVID-19. This is one of the first community spread of...

The Bombay High Court has refused to grant ‘Force Majeure’ exemption to a set of steel importers. They had approached the Court under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act seeking directions to restrain Wells Fargo, the respondent...

The Madras High Court Bench consisting of J. N. Kirubakaran and J. R. Hemalatha, dismissed a plea against exemption granted to the print media from the nationwide lockdown. The court was hearing the case T. Ganesh Kumar v. Union...

The Delhi High Court passed an order in a writ petition seeking permission to allow the petitioner's family to reoccupy a floor of the property securitized by IIFL Home Limited. The petitioner challenged the order of Debt Recovery Tribunal...

The Bombay High Court passed its verdict in a case challenging the validity of Rule 2(xxiv) of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008. The said rule prevents the functioning of centres of legal education without obtaining regular approval of...

The Bombay High Court Bench at Nagpur while conducting a hearing through video conferencing has asked the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to consider rapid antibody tests for COVID-19. The bench consisting of Justice AS Chandurkar, heard the...

The Chhattisgarh High Court has ordered the state to initiate 'intensive search operations' to track down the people who returned from Tablighi Jamaat. People from all over the world attend the congregation in the Nizamuddin area in New Delhi....

The Bombay High Court awarded interim relief to a first-year law student who filed a plea against her expulsion for allegedly smoking cannabis in College Campus. Advocate Mohit Bharadwaj appeared for the petitioner and Advocate Manorama Mohanty appeared for...

The Delhi High Court decided to suspend its summer break this year via a resolution dated 09.04.2020. The summer break of the Delhi High Court extends from June 1 to June 30. However, in light of the prevailing global...

The apex court heard the PIL seeking restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir given the COVID-19 outbreak on 09.04.2020. The PIL addresses the lack of access to the information given out by governmental authorities and the...

The Reserve Bank of India vide an advisory dated 27.03.2020 permitted all lending institutions to allow a 3-month moratorium on the outstanding payment of term loan instalments as on 01.03.2020. Availing the benefits of this RBI advisory, Anant Raj...

An intervention application was filed by Centre for Law and Policy Research on behalf of Ondede and Centre for Study of Social Exclusions and Centre for the study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy, NLSUI before the Karnataka HC....

The Karnataka HC dismissed the Public Interest Litigation seeking permission for opening of wine shops during the lockdown stating that there is no public interest in allowing the petition. The petition claimed that alcohol deprivation amounted to a violation...

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in Karnataka HC praying for the opening of wine shops in Karnataka for a few hours daily during the lockdown. The PIL has been filed by Late G.B. Kulkarni Memorial Legal Trust...

Given the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 lockdown; a group of lawyers of the Madras High Court appealed to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu seeking financial assistance. Albeit many Senior Advocates and Judges have made donations, the group...

The Kerala High Court allowed a writ petition against the denial of vehicle pass to the petitioner for buying food for his cats. Avoiding a CATastrophe. The petitioner appeared before the HC through video conferencing. He said that as...

In the Special Leave Petition filed by the State of Karnataka against the order of the Kerala High Court; the Supreme Court had directed the Union Health Secretary to have a meeting with the chief secretaries of both the...

To mitigate the consequences of the nationwide lockdown, the High Court of Allahabad issued certain directions on 26.03.2020. Given the previous directions issued on 26.03.2020, the High Court of Allahabad, in a suo moto case, issued more directions in...

The Ministry of External Affairs has set up a 24x7 helpline for the Indians stranded abroad in the COVID-19 outbreak. The MEA informed the Delhi High Court about the helpline; in a plea seeking evacuation of an Indian student...

Justice D Y Chandrachud, Chairperson of Supreme Court E-committee, conducted a meeting yesterday by video-conferencing with committees of High Courts. So to ensure urgent matters are heard quickly and parties are not required to come to court during the...

The state of Karnataka filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court of India against an order passed by the High Court of Kerala. The challenged order was passed on the road blockade imposed by Karnataka between Kasargod...

After the renouncement of Article 370 in August 2019, Justice Rajnesh Oswal becomes the first-ever judge of the common High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. The Government of India cleared the appointment of Justice Rajnesh Oswal as a...