The bench then directed the state to initiate fresh steps in recovering the costs from the petitioner, that could be gathered from the arrears of land revenue.
The petitioner says that the said writ was last listed before the court in March 2019 and since then it has not been listed, despite many applications for listing. Moreover, the matter is for final hearing as a counter and rejoinders have already been placed.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Election Commission’s plea against the oral observations made by Madras High Court that ECI was "singularly responsible" for the Covid second wave in India and should be tried for "murder charges".
The Delhi High Court today has sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking exemption of 12% IGST on import of Oxygen Concentrators while terming it as a rare writ actions, whereby, a notification issued in the realm of a tax statute has been, inter alia, assailed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
A PIL was registered suo motu by Chief Justice PR Ramachandra Menon and Justice Parth Prateem Sahu because of various interlocutory applications with different prayers with regard to the conditions in jails amid the Covid-19 pandemic and also in respect of some circulars issued by the authorities.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi State Legal Service Authority (DSLSA) to process the application for compensation of a widow whose husband died in Judicial custody within two weeks.