Decongestion Of Prisoners: Over 4 Thousand Prisoners Released On Bail, High Powered Committee Considering Other Relief Measures For Inmates: State Govt Tells Madras HC [Read Order]

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday apprised the court of the steps taken by it to decongest prisons as well as to ensure the safety of those who are lodged in jails, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It submitted that around 4182 prisoners who were involved in various offences were released by the Principal District Judges on Bail, by involving the Undertrial Review Committee and Tamil...

Convicts Who Have Spent 10 Yrs In Jail, Except Convicts For Crime Against Women, Children, Etc. Be Considered For Grant Of Special Parole: J&K High Powered Committee [Read Order]

The administration of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday informed the J&K High Court that the High Powered Committee constituted by it for determination of class persons who may be released on interim bail to decongest prisons amid the threat of pandemic has suggested that, "a person, who has been convicted in one case and has spent more than ten years (eight years 5 in case...

Existing And Proposed Centres Of Legal Education Shall Get 'Regular Approval' From BCI: Bombay HC Upholds Rule 2(xxiv) Of Rules Of Legal Education [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has upheld the Rule 2(xxiv) of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008 which prevents Centres of Legal Education from imparting education without obtaining approval of the Bar Council of India. The bench of Justices Amit Borkar and AS Chandurkar observed that unless regular approval as contemplated under the Rules of 2008 is received by a Centre of Legal...

Indiabulls Moves Delhi HC Against SIDBI, Says Loan Installments Can't Be Demanded In Light of Moratorium Imposed by RBI [Read Order]

Indiabulls Commercial Credit Limited has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the demands for loan installments made by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Indiabulls has contended that SIDBI can't make such demands in light of the moratorium imposed by the Reserve Bank of India by circular dated 27/03/2020. Appearing for the Petitioner, Senior...

Karnataka HC Directs State To Extend Relief To Transgenders [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the state government to extend relief under the 'Mythri scheme' for transgenders immediately on receiving applications from all eligible members of the community. . A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice B V Nagarathna gave the direction after it was infomed that "1657 persons of transgender community are getting monthly pension...

Karnataka HC Judges, Officials And Staff Contribute To Covid-19 Relief Fund [Read Press Note]

Judges of the Karnataka High Court, judicial officers and staff working in High court and judicial officers and staff members working in all other courts of the state have contributed over Rs 5,940,112, towards the Covid-19 relief fund. In a press note issued by the Registrar General Rajendra Badamikar states that Chief Justice and other Judges contributed 8,25,000 through cheque...

[Covid19] Karnataka HC Dismisses PIL Challenging Circular Directing To Issue Average Consumption Electricity Bills In April, Imposes Cost Of Rs 50,000 On Petitioners [Read Order]

Observing that it was an 'abuse of process of law', the Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed challenging a government circular, directing electricity supply companies to issue average consumption bills for the month of April. The court imposed a cost of s 50,000 on the petitioners, which has to be paid within two weeks to the Chief Minister Relief Fund,...

COVID19:"Extend Lockdown & Suspend Summer Vacations" Senior Advocate Dinesh Goswami In Letter To CJI

Senior Advocate Dinesh Kumar Goswami has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, highlighting the dire need for extending the nationwide lockdown to April 30, 2020, in view of the incessant increase in Coronavirus infections PAN India.The letter states, inter alia, that the rate at which the cases of infections have increased in India, especially since March 30, 2020, it...

Consider Starting Rapid Antibody Test For COVID-19 Within 10 Days; Bombay HC Tells Union Health Ministry [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court's bench at Nagpur while conducting a hearing via video conference on Wednesday asked the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to consider starting rapid antibody-based test for COVID-19 considering the results of the said test are obtained in 30 minutes only.Justice AS Chandurkar was hearing a writ petition tagged along with public interest litigation seeking...

Ensure Basic Necessities Are Provided To Stranded Migrants Workers: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to ensure that basic necessities like food, drinking water, medicines, healthcare, and hygienic toilet facilities are provided to migrant workers who have been left stranded for weeks in face of the current lockdown due to the pandemic of COVID-19. Justice AA Sayed heard the PILs filed by Sarva Hara Jan Andolan and Ghar Bachao...

Bombay HC Allows Pune Man To Travel To Assam By Road To Attend Father's Final Rites [Read Order]

In the midst of the ongoing lockdown due to the pandemic of Covid-19, the Bombay High Court via video conferencing on Tuesday permitted one Binny Dholani, a Pune resident to travel by road to Assam to attend the final rites of his father who died of a heart attack on April 5.Justice A K Menon directed Dholani to specify to the concerned authorities while seeking permission for such travel,...

Delhi HC Agrees With High Powered Committee, Allows Release of Under Trial Prisoners On Bail Upon Furnishing A Personal Bond [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has agreed with the decision of the High Powered Committee to do away with sureties and release the under trial prisoners (UTPs) on bail upon furnishing a personal bond. The Division Bench of Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri has noted that: '...in view of the unprecedented prevailing circumstances and the matter of decongesting the prisons...