Source – indianexpress.com Citing health hazards, the Supreme Court on Monday asked firecracker manufacturers not to use heavy metals like lithium, antimony, mercury, arsenic and lead and chemical elements like antimony “in any form whatsoever” in their products. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Mehta said it was the responsibility of the Petroleum

Source – indianexpress.com The Patna High Court on Monday dismissed two Public Interest Litigations (PILs) that challenged the formation of the new government after Janata Dal (United)  chief Nitish Kumar called off his party’s alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress to ally with the BJP.  After hearing all parties, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and

Source – indianexpress.com THE ALLAHABAD High Court on Monday permitted the petitioners to challenge the UP government’s refusal to grant sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — the prime accused in the 2007 Gorakhpur hate speech case. A two-member bench dismissed the UP government’s objections to the petitioners’ contention that the prime accused had

Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Bombay High Court to review its order barring people below 18 years of age from taking part in forming human pyramid in dahi handi festival on Janmashtami and also consider relaxing its direction fixing the maximum height of pyramid to 20 feet. A bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and

Source – indianexpress.com The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the state government and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) over alleged inaction in a 600-crore scam probe involving multinational mining giant Vedanta Resources. Justice V K Vyas issued the notices to the ACB and the state home secretary, on a petition by advocate A K

Source – indianexpress.com Noting that high-speed vehicles endangered the life of innocent citizens, the Madras High Court on Tuesday suo motu impleaded the Union revenue secretary in a related matter and sought to know the basis on which such vehicles were allowed to be imported. Justice N Kirubakaran also directed the official to get instructions

Source – firstpost.com The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has appointed an expert group headed by former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna to draft a data protection law, Livemint has reported. This comes in the backdrop of the apex court hearing arguments in a batch of cases which will determine whether there is a fundamental right to privacy. The

Source – timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday raised a toast to two young legal guns, who opposed giving constitutional status to right to privacy through lucid articulation of facts, case laws and illuminating deductions based on judgments of the US Supreme Court. Two weeks ago, the SC started a debate on whether privacy is

Source – firstpost.com The judiciary isn’t quite helping the cause of women’s rights in India. On 31 July, the Delhi High Court, while upholding the acquittal of a government employee in a rape case, remarked that “women use law as weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta and tend to convert consensual physical relations as an incident of

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Neera Yadav and IAS officer Rajiv Kumar in connection with the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) land allotment case. The bench of Justices Kurian Joseph and R Banumathi, however, reduced their sentence from 3 to 2 years. Yadav