Upadhyay has asked the Election Commission to issue directions as per the Supreme Court judgment of September 25, 2018. In that order the top court had directed the ECI to take appropriate steps to secure the fundamental rights of voters (right to know the candidate) guaranteed under the Article 19).
‘Judiciary, Judges and the Administration of Justice’, a book authored by Justice R. Banumathi, former judge of the Supreme Court, was launched virtually today by Chief Justice of India S. A. Bobde.
The ex-minister had just been granted interim bail by the Allahabad high Court for a two-month period on medical grounds. The case dates back to 2017. Prajapati was again arrested by Lucknow police yesterday, for allegedly striking a deal with the alleged survivor to drop the charges.
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.
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 refused to entertain a fresh pleas filed seeking postponement of of NEET-UG examination by National Testing Agency in wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
Actor Rhea Chakraborty was arrested today by the Narcotics Control Bureau in connection with investigations into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Chakraborty had been questioned successively on Sunday and Monday by the NCB.