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An NGO named Justice For All has filed a Public Interest Litigation in Delhi High Court. The NGO has filed the PIL in the interest of students belonging to the economically weaker sections of the society (EWS group); or...
A petition moved in Delhi High Court by Sakshi Arora and Aditya Yadav were the petitioners. It seeks directions to the Delhi Government to formulate a scheme to help the distressed students and paying their accommodation/PG rent. Petition referred...
A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court. It stated that the entire vegetarian class is facing COVID-19 because of the violent eating habits of non-vegetarians. Vishwas Jain Sanghatan represents the class of vegetarian people. He asserted...
A PIL favoured in the Supreme Court seeks intervention and directions to the central government to issue guidelines to prevent the attacks on certain communities by religious, racial and caste profiling.
Restrain Religious & Community Profiling
The abovementioned PIL is preferred...
A Supreme Court Bench led by Justice NV Ramana sought the Centreโs reply on all petitions challenging internet speed restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir. In essence, the PILs by Foundation of Media Professionals and Private Schools Association, Jammu &...
Jharkhand High Court directed the State Government to ensure that proper necessities are provided to the community of transgenders. The basic necessities include food and shelter. The direction issued is in light of the prevailing lockdown.
Counter Affidavit Regarding Basic...
Public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court to allow migrant workers across the country to go back to their homes amid the extended lockdown after being tested for COVID-19. They are the worst affected group in todayโs...
Advocate Manohar Pratap filed a petition before the Supreme Court. The petition sought court's directions to entities like Reliance, Bharti Airtel, TataSky, Netflix, Amazon Retail and others to provide free uninterrupted and free services of calling, data usage, satellite...
A doctor through his PIL has moved the Supreme Court against the Ministry of Health. The reason being subjecting the patients to the controversial, unproven, fatal, non-specificย andย potentially toxic 'off-label' use of drugs, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin (AZM).
The PIL filed...
The Jammu & Kashmir administration has ordered to extend internet speed restrictions till 27 April. This comes after the Supreme Court issued notice last week in a petition to restore 4G speeds in the UT considering the COVID-19 crisis....
A PIL seeking a writ of certiorari for quashing of registration of FIRs under Section 188 of IPC has been filed in the Supreme Court. Section 188 of IPC states "Disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant"....
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 division bench of Andhra Pradesh High Court including Chief J. JK Maheshwari and J. Ninala Jayasurya quashed government orders on April 15, 2020. The orders implemented English as a compulsory medium of instruction at the primary level in...
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,...
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...
The Tablighi Jamaat held the annual religious congregation at Nizamuddin, Delhi from 13.03.2020 to 15.03.2020. In essence, at a time when the pandemic was spreading. Several people from across the country and abroad attended the event. Subsequently, many attendees...
The Supreme Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) questioning the very basis to form a PM-CARES Fund set up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for COVID-19 relief measures. Advocate ML Sharma, who had filed the Public Interest Litigation...
Activist Ms. Latoya Mistral Ferns, Mr. Girish Chodankar, State President of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee & Mr. Michael Ferns, Chairman of Goa Citizens Welfare Trust submitted a letter to CJI S. A. Bobde on 12 April, 2020. They...
Dr. Kaushal Kant has filed an intervention application in the PIL filed by Shashank Deo Sudhi seeking revisions in the order passed by the apex court in the said PIL. Deo's PIL challenged the price set for COVID-19 testing...
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 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...
A PIL has been filed in the apex court asserting that the prevailing internet restrictions violate the right to education of children in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir. The PIL has been filed by Advocates Soayib Qureshi &...
As the number of deaths from COVID-19 reaches 17,838 in the US, a PIL has been filed in the SC seeking directions to the Government to organize special flights and formulate specific evacuation measures to airlift distressed Indian citizens...
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...
A division bench of J. Ashok Bhushan and J. Ravindra S Bhat has passed an important order in the PIL filed by Shashank Deo Sudhi. Filed on 31.03.2020, the PIL challenged the advisory issued by the Indian Council of...
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....
Dr Sneh Jain & Dr Hans Jain moved an application in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the government to formulate one national-level plan for COVID-19. A division bench of J. Ashok Bhushan and J. Ravindra Bhat listed the...
A PIL filed seeking immediate payment of wages to migrant workers amid COVID-19 lockdown. Filed by Harsh Mander and Anjali Bhardwaj, the PIL was heard today by the SC. A bench comprising of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices Sanjay...
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...
The Supreme Court heard a petition today i.e. 07.04.2020 on issues concerning the food supply of zoological parks during the nationwide lockdown. Animal Rights Activist Sangeeta Dogra had filed the petition before the Supreme Court of India. She claimed...