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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...
In light of the inconvenience caused to the litigants due to COVID-19, the Supreme Court Bar Association passed a resolution urging the Chief Justice of India to cancel the summer vacations. The Association passed the resolution in the interest...
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 Supreme Court Advocates On Record Association has decided to postpone the Supreme Court Advocate On Record Exam in light of the coronavirus outbreak. The Board ofย Examiners controlled by the Supreme Court regulates the Advocates On Record Examination....
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...
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 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...
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...
A Supreme Court bench of CJI SA Bobde, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao heard a suo moto case. On guidelines for the functioning of courts via video-conferencing during the nationwide lockdown. The bench directed that National...
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the United Nurses Association has filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court. They address the imminent and extreme risks posed to the health and safety of healthcare workers across India. Referring to the World...
The Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice Deepak Gupta took suo-moto cognisance in the matter of children in juvenile care homes. To protect the children from amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Apex Court has...
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...
Centre assured Supreme Court of publicizing helpline numbers for implementation of its earlier notification. The notification also mentioned controlling of prices of hand sanitizers and masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Justice For Rights Foundation, an NGO, filed a...
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court by Shashank Deo Sudhi highlighting the urgency to level up the testing facilities in light of the COVID-19 Outbreak. This is essential due to "escalating mortality" and "morbidity rate" across 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...
Social activist Harsh Mander and Anjali Bharadwaj filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court of India seeking relief for migrant workers in the nationwide lockdown.ย
In an additional affidavit filed by Harsh Mander, he claims that despite orders passed...
The nationwide lockdown was announced by the union government on 24.03.2020. The Supreme Court of India also issued guidelines to adhere to in the lockdown. However, cases of overcrowding have been consistently increasing. In terms of the rise in...
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court of India seeking restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir in light of the COVID-19 threat looming over the country. The Union Territories currently avails 2G mobile internet...
Under Article 15(3) of the Constitution of India, the State is obliged to make special provisions for children. In view of the COVID-19 outbreak, the State was expected to make such special provisions for the children of India.
Children are...
The Union Government is planning to set up an All India Judicial Service by March 2022. The Law ministry will complete the consultation process with the High Courts and Supreme Court to resolve issues and conflicts.
The concept of...
The Indian Judiciary uses 11 billion sheets of paper per year in just filing of cases. The number excludes the orders/ judgments passed, applications / documents, et cetera, filed during the pendency of the case that may go on...
Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were the first prominent personalities who were charged with Sedition during the British Colonial Rule.ย
โSec 124 (A) under which I am happily charged, is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the...
On 15th September 2018, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the draconian Section 377 of Indian Penal Code, 1872. This was hailed as a big victory for the LGBT+ community. Many report that the judgement helped them come...
On Friday the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case. The bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra, R Bhanumati and Ashok Bhushan upheld the High Court order and held that the...
The 7 judge bench of the Supreme Court has found Justice Karnan guilty of contempt and has sentenced him to 5 months imprisonment. The Bench stated, โWe are punishing him for contempt of Indian judiciary as well as judicial...
On Wednesday Mr. Aarghya Sengupta presented his arguments for the Central Government in the AADHAAR case; he argued that arbitrariness cannot be a ground for declaring a statute unconstitutional, he then went on to rebut Mr. Shyam Divanโs submission...