Court News Updates

The Meghalaya High Court recently observed that public spirited individuals should be vigilant and they should be encouraged to raise queries for the administration to be kept on its toes, particularly when it comes to health-care and measures to alleviate the lot of the underprivileged in the State.

The apex court had expressed displeasure over the government not taking any clear stand on the commutation of the death sentence awarded to Rajaona.

The Supreme Court has received an application from Central Government for seeking some more time to file its response in the plea challenging Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which terms sedition criminal.

The Allahabad High Court has stayed the recruitment process for the 1729 vacant posts of Staff Nurse Recruitment Examination-2021 conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission.

The Rajasthan High Court has recently disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that the respondent National Highways Authority of India is constructing the National Highway 158 passing through Tehsil Aasind in such a manner which is prejudicial to the interest of villagers, with risky curves for moving traffic and displacing land of a government school.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today has stayed the arrest of poet Kumar Vishwas the former AAP leader in an FIR that was registered against him for giving inflammatory statements against the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal among few other charges

The Supreme Court today said that no person can be forced to get vaccinated as right to bodily integrity is guaranteed to an individual under Article 21 of the Constitution. The choice to be vaccinated or not solely lies at discern of an individual.

Bombay High Court observed that it is not in dispute that after the PIL petition was instituted on 8th March 2022, the MCGM has issued a notice on 11th March 2022 under section 351(1) of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 against Chairman and Secretary engaged in construction work.

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a petition filed by Pankaj Kumar And 4 Others directed the UP government to conduct a six-month Bridge Course as per the order of NCTE to the BEd qualified teachers posted in the recruitment of 69 thousand assistant teachers.

Bombay High Court division bench observed that the petitioner initially filed writ petition and thereafter converted into PIL. Before the High  court could direct the petitioner to deposit the certain amount to test the bonafides of the petitioner, the petitioner now seeks liberty to withdraw this PIL.