Month: July 2019

Source: livemint.com MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the CBI from taking any coercive action against NGO Lawyers Collective and its founding members, senior lawyers Anand Grover and Indira Jaising. A bench of justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre granted the interim protection till August 19, the next date of hearing. The CBI had registered

Source: firstpost.com Earlier this month, a petition was filed before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court challenging the application of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act to Jammu and Kashmir. Further, a bill to amend the NIA Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 15 July which seeks to strengthen the existing law. In light of this, the

Source: zeenews.india.com KOLKATA: In a major setback for the Trinamool Congress, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led panel won the Calcutta High Court Bar Association elections on Wednesday. Of the total 15 seats, BJP won eight, Trinamool Congress four, Congress two and an independent candidate won one. The President’s post was won by Independent candidate Ashok

Source: nagalandpost.com Quarry workers protesting at Samukhok in Imphal East district on Thursday set July 30 as deadline to review the order regarding ban on sand and stone mining in all rivers in Manipur.  An order of the Manipur High Court passed on July 2 last has put a total ban on unauthorised stone quarry,

Source: hindustantimes.com The Allahabad High Court has ruled that an engineering degree holder cannot be considered for appointment to the post of junior engineer which seeks a diploma as the eligibility criterion. The court was hearing a case wherein Deepak Singh, who along with nine others who held a B Tech degree had filed a

Source: ndtv.com KOLKATA:  The Calcutta High Court on Thursday appointed an administrator on the La Martiniere schools’ board of governors to oversee its functions till disposal of a petition before it by four deposed members. A division bench comprising justices I P Mukerji and Md Nizamuddin appointed Justice (retired) Tapan Kumar Dutt of the Calcutta

Source: news.yahoo.com The latest amendment to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), with the simultaneous dilution of the Right to Information Act, 2005 by allowing the Modi government to fix the tenure and salaries of the information commissioners while downgrading the Constitutional status of the chief information commissioner— spells danger to democracy. And with the

Source: ndtv.com NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court Thursday directed all states and Union Territories to comply within six weeks with its direction to provide medical facilities to retired chief justices and judges of high courts, their spouses and dependent family members at par with the sitting judges. The top court cautioned the states and the

Source: downtoearth.org.in Jharkhand’s asbestos mines The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on July 22, 2019, heard the case of restitution of areas that were earlier under asbestos mining in Jharkhand. The tribunal had, in October, 2015, directed Rajasthan, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh to list all abandoned asbestos mines and, in consultation with Indian Bureau of Mines,

Source: telegraphindia.com he Centre on Wednesday held the first round of meetings on implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord. Union home minister Amit Shah and minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy attended the meeting. Clause 6 reads: “Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect,