Top Law News COVID-19 test kits should be made available at lowest cost: Delhi High Court April 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment COVID-19 test kits should be made available urgently at the lowest possible price so that the virus can be controlled and people’s health can be safeguarded at a time when the country was facing an “unprecedented medical crisis”, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Najmi Waziri issued the direction to three private companies which […] Read more » Aark Pharmaceuticals Advocate Anshumaan Sahni advocates Jayant Mehta ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research Justice Najmi Waziri Rare Metabolics Life Sciences Pvt Ltd top law news top legal news
Top Law News Supreme Court heard 593 matters and delivered verdicts in 215 cases during COVID-19 lockdown. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court heard 593 matters via video-conferencing and delivered judgement in 215 of them in a month during the unprecedented nationwide lockdown. As COVID-19 infections spread in the country, the Supreme Court shut its doors to litigants and lawyers on March 23, two days before the lockdown came into force, but opened up to […] Read more » COVID-19 lockdown SC during COVID-19 lockdown Supreme Court delivered verdicts in 215 cases Supreme Court heard 593 matters
Top Law News COVID-19 test kits should be made available at lowest cost : Delhi High Court April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment COVID-19 test kits should be made available urgently at the lowest possible price so that the virus can be controlled and people’s health can be safeguarded at a time when the country was facing an “unprecedented medical crisis”, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Najmi Waziri issued the direction to three private companies which […] Read more » COVID-19 test kits Delhi High Court
Top Law News HC gives 2 weeks to 5 DSGMC schools to pay salary arrears of teachers. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has granted two weeks’ time to five schools run by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to pay salary arrears to its teachers, some of whom have not been paid since December last year. A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said “there can be no justification […] Read more » Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee DSGMC Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal Justice Vipin Sanghi no justification for non-payment of salaries
Top Law News Plea in Delhi HC for feeding stray dogs and other animals during lockdown. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Centre, the AAP government and civic bodies here to provide food and water to stray animals during the ongoing lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus. The petition has contended that stray dogs and other animals are largely dependent on garbage and […] Read more » Delhi High Court feeding stray dogs feeding stray dogs and other animals during lockdown
Top Law News Special court rejects remanded activist Anand Teltumbde’s interim bail plea. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here on Saturday remanded activist Anand Teltumbde to judicial custody in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case and rejected his plea for temporary bail, which he sought in view of the COVID-19 outbreak. The National Investigation Agency had arrested the Dalit scholar on April 14 after he surrendered before it following the Supreme Court’s […] Read more » remanded activist Anand Teltumbde
Top Law News COVID-19: Government to suspend insolvency proceedings for six months. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment To avoid companies at large from being forced into insolvency proceedings as businesses get impacted due to COVID-19, the union cabinet on Wednesday has given its nod to the proposal to introduce a new clause — 10A, under section 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, government sources told CNBC-TV18. The announcement, however, […] Read more » IBC IBC 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 insolvency proceedings as businesses Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Top Law News Supreme Court terms foreign arbitral award against NAFED as “illegal”. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Thursday settled a 39-year-old arbitration dispute in favour of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and saved the company from a potential hit of $1.6 billion. Terming the international arbitral award of 1989 of the Federation of Oil, Seeds and Fats Associations Ltd (FOSFA) against NAFED as ex-facie illegal, the […] Read more » FOSFA NAFED NAFED as ex-facie illegal National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India
Top Law News MSME association moves SC against govt order that directs full salary payment to workers. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Can small private employers, faced with mounting losses and no revenue be asked to continue paying salaries of workers during the lockdown, indefinitely? This question has been raised in the Supreme Court by a Ludhiana based association of hand tools manufacturers, comprising of 41 MSMEs. On March 29, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had […] Read more » DMA full salary payment to workers MHA MSME association quash the MHA order directing payment of full salaries.
Top Law News Donald Trump says he was “sarcastic” when talking about injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19 patients. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Trying to wriggle out of the backlash he received for his outlandish suggestions, US President Donald Trump has said that he was being “sarcastic” when he told his medical experts that they should consider using UV light, heat, or injecting disinfectants into the COVID-19 patients as a potential treatment. Trump faced intense rebuke on Thursday […] Read more » injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19
Top Law News Delhi High Court seeks report from prison authorities on steps taken to prevent COVID-19 spread in jail. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought a report from authorities on steps taken for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in jails here. Justice Brijesh Sethi issued the direction while hearing the interim bail plea of an accused in a murder case who cited potential risk of COVID-19 infection to seek the relief. “Let a report […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Brijesh Sethi protect the prisoners from COVID-19 social distancing in jail steps taken for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in jails top law news top legal news
Top Law News SC grants 3-week protection to Arnab Goswami from any coercive action. April 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday granted 3-week protection from any coercive action to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on FIRs against him for alleged defamatory statements against Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi he made in the news shows on the recent Palghar mob-lynching of three persons including two sadhus in Maharashtra. A bench comprising Justices D Y […] Read more » advocate Pragya Baghel defamatory statements against Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi Justice D Y Chandrachud Justice M R Shah Palgarh lynching incident Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami top law news top legal news