Justice Ved Prakash Vaish retires on June 26, 2021. This means he has less than ten months to settle affairs and to settle down into a well-earned retired life. His is a family of legal ‘achievers’, so to say.
In two orders, the Supreme Court has felt the need for urgent action on a long-delayed matter of construction of smog towers and waste management in Delhi. But was there a judicial overreach in overlooking a cost-effective solution and the rights of co-citizens?
At one time, it was said that political parties like the Congress were being excessively advised by lawyers at the expense of politics. Now power politics dominates. The law is only there to be observed in the breach
The Supreme Court has been approached by 16 slum dwellers seeking impleadment in the MC Mehta case in which a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra had ordered removal of jhuggis near the New Delhi area, to address environment related issues.
Senior Congress leader and former minister Ajay Maken has moved the Supreme Court, asking it to make government bodies ensure that slum dwellers are rehabilitated before the removal of 48,000 illegal dwellings (jhuggis) alongside railway tracks in Delhi.
A petition has come before the Supreme Court assailing the non implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), commonly known as the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme, by Delhi, Telangana, Odisha and West Bengal.
The parliamentary panel report on virtual court hearings has favoured the integration of virtual courts in India's legal ecosystem. It has said that virtual courts, after gaining immense ground during the COVID-19 pandemic, will remain the new reality and the new normal.
The Supreme Court has expressed surprise at the framing of an indictment by a lower court after 36 years against a leader in Punjab. The criminal case was filed in 1983. The top court has commented that it was the duty of the prosecution to expedite the trial.
India’s ill-preparedness to operate effectively in the mountains has often led to disastrous results. But a dedicated Mountain Strike Corps will be capable of evicting the Chinese from Ladakh and securing its future.
The Bombay High Court today declined an impleadment request of Rhea Chakraborty in the case against the media trial being held by news channels in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.