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Advocate Appears In "Baniyan" (undervest) On VC Hearing, Rajasthan HC Adjourns Matter
In an interesting development, the Rajasthan High Court on Friday adjourned a Bail plea on account of inappropriately dressed counsel in a "baniyan" (undervest) during the Videoconference hearing.Affronted by the advocate's "inappropriate" attire, the Single Judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma adjourned the hearing and observed that Lawyers must appear in proper uniform during...
Allahabad HC Intimates That Courts & Tribunals In State Will Remain Closed Till May 3 [Read Letter]
The Allahabad High Court has intimated that all the courts subordinate to it will remain closed until the expiration of the lockdown period on May 3. The announcement is made in the backdrop of the letter addressed to High Court by the Additional Chief Secretary of the state, requesting the High Court to open the subordinate courts only after expiry of the lockdown period. On April...
[COVID-19] Plea Moved In Delhi HC Seeking Waiver Of Accommodation Rent For Students, Direction To Govt To Formulate A Scheme [Read Petition]
A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Delhi Government to formulate a scheme to help distressed students and for paying their accommodation/PG rent. Moved by Sakshi Arora and Aditya Yadav, the petition contends that the Ministry of Home Affairs' Circular dated 29.03.20 is unclear as to whether it has waived off the rent payable by students or...
Use Of Rapid Antibody Test Kits On Hold Due To Divergent Outcomes Of Sample Tests; Centre Tells Bombay HC [Read Order]
The Union Government informed the Bombay High Court's bench at Nagpur that the rapid antibody test kit recently procured by the centre is not being used for testing currently as there have been some divergent outcomes in a few sample tests. The same can be used for surveillance testing only and not for VRDL (Viral Research & Diagnostic Laboratory) Centres. Justice NW Sambre was hearing...
Karnataka Govt's New Ordinance To Protect COVID-19 Officials Challenged In High Court [Read Petition]
A petition has been filed in the Karnataka HIgh Court challenging the Ordinance passed by the Karnataka Government called 'The Karnataka Epidemic Diseases Ordinance, 2020', to protect all officials engaged in COVID-19 duty, from physical harm. The petition filed by Advocate G R Mohan is likely to be heard by the court on April 28. The plea states that during the lockdown period...
New PIL In SC Seeks Relief For Employees Against Lay-Off, Termination, Pay Cuts By Private Entities [Read Petition]
A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court by Rajesh Inamdar and National Information Technology Sena a Union working for welfare of IT/ITES/BPO/KPO employees in Pune praying that the March 20 Advisory of the Labour and Employment Ministry, the March 29 GO of the Central government and the various state government resolutions, so far as they relate to the directions to the employers of both...
Plea Moved in Delhi HC Seeking Laptops/Tablets and High Speed Internet For Students Belonging To EWS, Enabling Them To Access Online Classes
A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking court's direction to the Delhi Government to ensure that children belonging to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) are provided with free laptops/ipads and high speed internet for ensuring their access to online classes conducted by schools. Filed by an NGO called Justice For All, the plea wants Delhi Government to remove all...
Decide Whether 'Not Releasing Prisoners/Undertrials Accused Under Special Enactments Is Discriminatory': Bombay HC Asks High Power Committee [Read Order]
The Bombay High Court has directed the high power committee constituted by the state government to decide whether the distinction made between prisoners/undertrials accused under IPC and those under special enactments like MPID, MCOCA, NDPS, PMLA, UAPA etc for release on parole due to the pandemic of Covid-19, is discriminatory. Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing a suo motu writ petition...
Kerala HC Restrains Sprinklr From Breaching Data Confidentiality; Govt Directed To Anonymize Data & Take Informed Consent [Read Order]
The High Court of Kerala on Friday passed a slew of directions to address the concerns of data confidentiality over the controversial Sprinklr deal to process data related to COVID-19 cases in Kerala.A bench comprising Justices Devan Ramachandran and T R Ravi passed the directions after a four hour long hearing held through videoconferencing via Zoom.The following are the directions in...
NGT Directs Constituting High Level Task Team To Supervise Handling And Scientific Disposal Of COVID-19 Waste. [Read Order]
The National Green Tribunal has directed constituting a high level task team at the national level, to supervise handling and scientific disposal of COVID-19 waste in accordance with guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said "At the national level, let a high level task team of Ministry of...
Delhi HC Issues Notice In Plea Citing Use Of Centralised ACs In HC During The Pandemic As A Potential Threat To Life
Delhi High Court has issued notice in an application highlighting the possible danger of using the centralised air conditioning system at the time of a virus pandemic. While highlighting the importance of the issue, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has issued notice to the Central Public Works Department of the Union Government. ...
Centre Appoints Advocate Savanur Vishwajith Shetty As An Additional Judge Of The Karnataka High Court [Read Notification]
The Central Government has notified the appointment of Advocate Savanur Vishwajith Shetty, to be an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court, for a period of two years. The Supreme Court Collegium had first recommended to elevate him vide a resolution dated March 25, 2019. However, the Government referred his name back for reconsideration with the following observation: "There is...