Month: September 2020

District Bar Association Chandigarh submits plan for resumption of physical hearing of cases in courts

Source:-tribuneindia Stressing on the need to alleviate hardship and sufferings due to restrictive functioning of the courts the District Bar Association (DBA) Chandigarh, Sector43, has readied to resume physical hearings of the courts in a phased manner. In an action plan submitted before District and Sessions Judge, the DBA president, NK Nanda, demanded that physical

Orissa High Court denies permission to terminate pregnancy of differently-abled rape survivor

Source:-indialegallive Bhubaneswar (IL News Service): The Orissa High Court has refused permission to terminate the pregnancy of a physically and mentally challenged 22-year-old woman. The woman is also a rape victim. The woman, also mentally challenged, is a resident of a village in Kujanga Police Station area of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha. She was raped

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 23, 2020)

Source:-org Biodiversity conservation Manipur had been making all necessary efforts to fully comply with the mandate of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and the Rules framed under it, the Manipur Biodiversity Board said in its report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The Board had proposed to constitute 2,282 Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) across the

Cong, BJP youth leaders who led protests against Kerala Minister get COVID-19

Source:-thenewsminute Three young political leaders who have been leading protests against Minister KT Jaleel in Kerala have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Two youth leaders of the Congress party and former district secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) have been infected with the novel coronavirus, they revealed on their respective Facebook pages. Youth leaders of