Top Law News Priests hit hard as income dries up amid COVID-19 crisis July 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With several weddings and religious functions being put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Hindu priests in Kolkata and its vicinity are in dire straits, some even looking for an alternative source of income to make ends meet. Sushanta Chakraborty, a priest in Agarpara on the northern outskirts of the city, is selling vegetables […] Read more » Priests hit hard as income dries up
Top Law News Ensure ban on use of petcoke and furnace oil as fuels in industries and switch to cleaner alternatives : NGT July 19, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal Friday directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure that states and union territories (UTs) ban the use of petcoke and furnace oil as fuels in industries and switch to cleaner alternatives. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel after perusing a report filed by CPCB noted […] Read more » Central Pollution Control Board CPCB NGT use of petcoke and furnace oil as fuels in industries and switch to cleaner alternatives
Top Law News NGT junks plea seeking alternative methods of cremation to reduce air pollution July 19, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to install alternative methods of cremation to reduce air pollution and also to contain spread of COVID-19. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel junked the plea which sought conversion of at least one third of the number of pyres […] Read more » advocate Rahul Choudhary alternative methods of cremation to reduce air pollution Delhi resident Parmod Kumar Bhatia National Green Tribunal NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
Top Law News Bombay High Court asks govt about compensation for kin of deceased frontline staff Ketan Tirodkar July 19, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Maharashtra government to state its position on a petition seeking compensation for families of frontline workers who died after contracting COVID-19 infection on duty. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was hearing a petition filed by social worker Ketan Tirodkar. The petitioner […] Read more » Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Justice Anuja Prabhudessai Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package
Top Law News Consider reopening registration for CM’s advocate welfare scheme: Delhi High Court to Delhi Govt July 19, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday asked the AAP government to consider reopening registration for two-weeks for lawyers, who are voters in the national capital and could not sign up for the Rs 50 crore Chief Minister’s Advocates Welfare Scheme which includes medical and life insurance cover. The court asked the Delhi government to complete the […] Read more » Bar Council of Delhi reopening registration for CM's advocate welfare scheme
Top Law News HC notice to Maharashtra minister Vijay Wadettiwar on plea over hiding cases for passport July 19, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has issued a notice to Maharashtra minister Vijay Wadettiwar on a plea filed by a former legislator, alleging that the Congress leader had not disclosed the criminal cases pending against him while applying for passport twice in Nagpur. Apart from the minister, the Nagpur bench of the high court on Friday […] Read more » Maharashtra minister Vijay Wadettiwar Nagpur bench of the high court
Top Law News Vikas Dubey’s killing raises handcuffing issue vis-a-vis SC guidelines on “inhuman” practice July 12, 2020 / July 12, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The alleged encounter killing of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey on Friday has kicked up dust over his not being apparently handcuffed by the police, against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s disapproving the practice in various orders, calling it inhuman, unreasonable, over harsh and arbitrary . The apex court has from time to time issued […] Read more » encounter killing of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey killing of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey
Top Law News Supreme Court issues notices to Centre & Assam on plea against delimitation process July 12, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday sought responses from the Centre and the Assam government on a plea which has questioned the exercise of delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in the state, saying it is proposed to be conducted on the basis of “stale figures” of Census 2001. The plea, filed by All India United Democratic […] Read more » delimitation process
Top Law News Delhi High Court asks Centre to treat as representation plea for disaster management agency in NCR July 12, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday asked the Centre to treat as representation a plea seeking creation of a nodal agency to carry out disaster management tasks in the national capital region (NCR) so that there is uniformity in the response to any calamity, like the COVID-19 outbreak or an earthquake. A bench of Chief Justice […] Read more » plea for disaster management agency in NCR
Top Law News Tablighi Jamaat: Court allows 62 Malaysians,11 Saudis to walk free on fine of Rs 7k and Rs 10K July 12, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday allowed 62 Malaysians and 11 foreigners from Saudi Arabia to walk free on payment of fine of Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000 each respectively, after they accepted mild charges, under the plea bargain process, related to various violations including visa norms while attending Tablighi Jamaat congregation here during the COVID-19 lockdown. […] Read more » Tablighi Jamaat
Top Law News Why reveal names of COVID-19 patients as it involves privacy rights of such patients : Bombay High Court July 12, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Friday sought to know why should the names of persons who have tested positive for COVID-19 be disclosed and said the issue involves privacy rights of such patients. A division bench of Justices A A Sayed and M S Karnik made the observation while hearing a petition filed by two persons […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice A A Sayed Justice M S Karnik reveal names of COVID-19 patients reveal names of COVID-19 patients as it involves privacy rights
Top Law News Nizamuddin Markaz: Delhi court grants bail to 91 foreigners from 21 countries July 9, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Wednesday granted bail to 91 foreigners from 21 countries who were chargesheeted for attending Markaz at Nizamuddin here allegedly in violation of visa conditions, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines issued after the COVID-19 outbreak. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur granted the relief to the foreigners on furnishing a […] Read more » bail to 91 foreigners from 21 countries Nizamuddin Markaz Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Saad Kandhalvi
