Source: morungexpress.com The Supreme Court of India, on July 2, has reportedly dismissed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging certain sections of the “Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 which gives unbridled power to a State to prescribe ILP.” Upadhyay contended that Nagaland has only eight per cent Hindu population

Source: .newindianexpress.com CUTTACK: Laying to rest a nearly 12-year-old controversy over the purview of Right to Information for getting information on custodial deaths, the Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to provide such information if sought under the Act. The single judge bench of Justice Biswanath Rath issued the direction while dismissing a

Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and PayPal to file a reply to a plea alleging that the company PayPal was operating illegally in the country. A division bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Harishankar issued notices to

Source: ndtv.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to interfere with the Calcutta High Court order which put in abeyance the summons issued by the Customs Department against Trinamool Congress lawmaker Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Naroola. The department had issued notice asking Ms Naroola to appear before it for allegedly obstructing its officers

Source: business-standard.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which it had asked the Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited and the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to consider the objections raised by the former directors of the company before finalising any

Source: moneycontrol.com Citing recent cases of violence against doctors, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on July 1 asked the government to declare hospitals as “safe zones” and asserted that exemplary punishment for perpetrators of such acts should be a component of the central law. On National Doctors’ Day, the IMA organized a mass awareness programme

Source: thehindu.com Supreme Court judge, Justice Indu Malhotra, on Monday recused herself from hearing a clutch of petitions and cross-petitions challenging a Bombay High Court order on possession, storage and consumption of beef brought into Maharashtra from other States. Justice Malhotra, who was part of the Bench led by Justice A.M. Sapre, said she had

Source: news18.com The Supreme Court of India has deferred a hearing scheduled for public interest litigations, filed in protest of the Home Ministry’s December 20, 2018 order that sanctioned 10 central agencies to monitor, tap and decrypt private communication channels on digital platforms. While the order was issued in light of promoting national security, concerns

Source: indiatoday.in The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Centre to constitute within two weeks a high-level committee of experts to ascertain whether spraying insecticides or fumigation to ward off mosquitoes in aircraft was harmful for passengers. The court, which was hearing pleas against the National Green Tribunal’s ban on spraying of disinfectants and pesticides in

Source: hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court rebuked the Bihar government Tuesday for ‘humiliating, harassing and victimising’ an IAS officer who took a tough stand against the transport mafia despite threats to his life. The court directed the central government to initiate inter-cadre transfer of the 2013-batch IAS officer Jitendra Gupta forthwith and issue the order