The Delhi High Court has quashed a detention order because it was not given in writing in the language the detenu was fluent, even after requests made by him and was in violation to article 22(5) of the Indian constitution.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Maharashtra government’s 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in elections to local bodies in the state.
Contrary to media reports, many states have flatly denied deaths due to oxygen shortage during the second wave of Covid-19. This is despite courts pulling them up for their lackadaisical attitude towards patients.
The bench expressed surprise that the former top cop of the city says he has lost faith in Mumbai Police, a force he was part of for 30 years. The bench commented that “people in glass houses should not throw stones.”
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday pronounce its judgment in the petitions challenging the Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, 2018 (SEBC Act).