High Profile Cases Next 7 days critical in evolving lockdown exit plan: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu April 7, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the final week of the ongoing lockdown is “critical” for evolving an exit strategy as data regarding the spread of coronavirus will have a bearing on the decision to be taken by the government. He also appealed to the people to abide by whatever decision is ultimately […] Read more » final week of the ongoing lockdown is "critical"
Corporate Law News Top Law News Coronavirus: SC seeks status report from Centre on steps taken to prevent migration of workers. March 30, 2020 / March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday sought a status report from the Centre by Tuesday on the measures taken in view of the large-scale migration of labourers from cities to their native villages amid the coronavirus outbreak and the consequent lockdown across the country. The top court observed that the migration of labourers out of panic […] Read more » steps taken to prevent migration of workers
High Profile Cases Suspended JK police officer Davinder Singh sent to further custody till Apr 3. March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh, who was arrested while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway earlier this year, has been sent to further custodial interrogation by a Delhi court till April 3. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Jain extended Singh’s custody after Delhi Police said that he was required […] Read more » Davinder Singh Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Jammu and Kashmir Police officer Davinder Singh Special Judge Ajay Kumar Jain
High Profile Cases Corona Virus : Delhi High Court judge Justice Hima Kohli directs steps to reduce over-crowding in jails. March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A high powered committee, headed by a Delhi High Court judge, has directed authorities to take steps like releasing inmates on emergency parole for reducing over-crowding in jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus which has infected 1,071 people in India and claimed 29 lives. The committee, constituted on the orders of the Supreme Court, […] Read more » corona virus Delhi High Court judge Justice Hima Kohli reducing over-crowding in jails to prevent the spread of coronavirus under-trial prisoners UTPs
High Profile Cases Bar Council of Delhi urges govt to ensure no lawyer thrown out for non-payment of rent March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of Delhi on Monday approached the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre, AAP government and police to ensure no advocate is shunted out of rented accommodation due to failure to pay monthly rent amid the lockdown due to coronavirus. BCD chairman K C Mittal, in the plea, also sought to […] Read more » 21-day total lockdown till April 14 advocates staying in Delhi/NCR in rented accommodation Bar Council of Delhi Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
High Profile Cases Khalida Begum, Muslim woman donates her savings for Hajj to RSS-affiliate. March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Muslim woman from Jammu and Kashmir has donated her savings of Rs 5 lakh, meant for the Hajj pilgrimage, to the RSS-affiliated ‘Sewa Bharati’ after apparently being “impressed with the welfare work” done by the outfit amid the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Khalida Begum, 87, who saved Rs 5 lakh for […] Read more » Hajj pilgrimage Khalida Begum Muslim woman donates her savings RSS-affiliate RSS-affiliated 'Sewa Bharati'
High Profile Cases No plan to extend 21-day lockdown: Government. March 30, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government on Monday said there was no plan to extend the 21-day lockdown which came intro force on Tuesday midnight. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting tweeted, saying Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has denied media reports claiming that the government will extend the lockdown. “There are rumours & […] Read more » No plan to extend 21-day lockdown
High Profile Cases Top Law News EMIs put on hold : big-bang interest rate cut as RBI joins fight against coronavirus. March 29, 2020 / March 29, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The RBI on Friday put on hold EMI payments on all term loans for three months and cut interest rate by steepest in more than 11 years as it joined the government effort to rescue a slowing economy that has now got caught in coronavirus whirlwind. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut repo to […] Read more » EMIs put on hold Monetary Policy Committee Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
High Profile Cases Top Law News PM seeks nation’s forgiveness for tough decisions and says India will surely defeat coronavirus. March 29, 2020 / March 29, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday sought the nation’s forgiveness for imposing a monumental lockdown on the country, but said “we have to win … and we will definitely win the battle” against the unprecedented menace of coronavirus that has claimed 25 lives in India so far. In his monthly Mann ki Baat radio address […] Read more » PM seeks nation's forgiveness for tough decisions
High Profile Cases Top Law News SCBA mulls BCI plea to help financially-troubled lawyers in wake of COVID-19. March 26, 2020 / March 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A day after the Bar Council of India urged the Prime Minister and states to help the financially stressed lawyers in wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ashok Arora has sought views of the members of the Association on extending financial help for such lawyers. The contributions thus […] Read more » SCBA
High Profile Cases Police takes responsibility of delivering food at every doorstep in West Bengal. March 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that there is a need to ensure that there is no scarcity of food in the wake of coronavirus lockdown. On Monday, Banerjee had said that her administration is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that citizens are safe from coronavirus. “The West Bengal Government is […] Read more » West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
High Profile Cases Coronavirus: HC directs MEA to ensure safety of 300 Indian students stranded in Kazakhstan. March 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to ensure welfare and safety of around 300 Indian students stranded at Almaty Airport in Kazakhstan for the past 2-3 days without food and medical aid due to coronavirus pandemic. A bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh, which conducted the hearing […] Read more » 300 Indian students stranded in Kazakhstan
