Top Law News SC refuses to transfer cases to CBI and grants protection to Arnab Goswami for 3 weeks May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to transfer to CBI the criminal cases lodged against Republic TV Editor in-Chief Arnab Goswami for alleged defamatory news show telecast on April 21 in connection with the Palghar mob-lynching case. Observing that Journalistic freedom lies at the core of freedom of speech and expression, the top court quashed all […] Read more » Arnab Goswami grants protection to Arnab Goswami
Top Law News Collect only tuition fees : Delhi High Court May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed two private schools here not to collect from students any amount other than the tuition fees that too as per rates prevailing prior to October 31 last year. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also directed the schools, both in south Delhi, to pay salaries of staff and teachers at rates presently […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Shakdher
Top Law News Coronavirus not a pandemic in Pakistan : Pakistan’s Supreme Court May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Monday to lift some of the remaining restrictions imposed on business to halt the spread of the coronavirus, even as the country recorded a rise in infections since beginning to emerge from lockdown. In its decision, which is binding, the court said the virus “apparently is not a […] Read more » Coronavirus not a pandemic in Pakistan
Corporate Law News Top Law News FM Nirmala Sitharaman : Decriminalise Companies Act violations involving minor defaults May 20, 2020 / May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing the fifth and the final tranche of the economic stimulus package on Sunday, said that the government will soon move an ordinance to decriminalise Companies Act violations involving minor technical and procedural defaults. The government has decided to drop seven compoundable offences while five will be dealt with under […] Read more » economic stimulus package Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ordinance to decriminalise Companies Act violations
Top Law News SC comes up with new guidelines for hearing matters from May 18 to June 19 May 18, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will hear all cases via video and audio links between May 18 and June 19, and has scaled up its ‘1881’ helpline to assist advocates and litigants in e-filing and virtual hearing, according to a standard operating procedure (SoP) released on Sunday amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown. The fresh SoP assumed significance as […] Read more » new guidelines for hearing matters
Top Law News Court grants bail to undertrial in murder case and asks to install Aarogya Setu app. May 18, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has granted interim bail to an undertrial prisoner arrested in a murder case, while directing him to install the ‘Aarogya Setu’ app on his phone. Additional Sessions Judge Naveen Kumar Kashyap on Saturday granted relief to accused Ravi Dhika on his plea that he had to take care of his ailing wife […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Naveen Kumar Kashyap interim bail to an undertrial prisoner to install Aarogya Setu app
Top Law News Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda will address ‘Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series’ on topic ‘India’s Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India’s Ethos’ May 18, 2020 / May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In “Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial’ online lecture series of ABAP (Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad), Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda, Padma Bhushan & Professor of Law, University of Denver, USA will share his thoughts on the topic ‘India’s Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India’s Ethos’. Lecture will begin by 08.00PM on 18.05.2020 […] Read more » India's Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India's Ethos Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda
Top Law News Ensure essentials reach tribals amid lockdown: Bombay High Court May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government and civic authorities to ensure that food and basic necessities reach the tribal community across the state amid the COVID-19 lockdown. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Amjad Sayed was hearing a petition filed by one Vivek Pandit highlighting the plight of tribals in […] Read more » Additional government pleader B V Samant COVID-19 lockdown
Top Law News Allahabad HC grants anticipatory bail to Siddharth Varadarajan May 16, 2020 / May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan who was booked for making remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityananth. Two FIRs were registered at Kotwali Ayodhya police station against Varadarajan One of the FIRs was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal […] Read more » Allahabad HC Allahabad HC grants anticipatory bail anticipatory bail to Siddharth Varadarajan Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act Indian Penal Code IT Act Justice Chandra Dhari Singh remarks against Chief Minister Yogi Adityananth. Two FIRs were registered at Kotwali Ayodhya police station against Varadaraj Siddharth Varadarajan
Top Law News The Bar Council of India asks lawyers not to wear coat and long gowns during COVID-19. May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India asked lawyers across the country on Thursday not to wear coats and long gowns during the hearings through video conferencing before any court or tribunal as a precautionary measure to check the spread of coronavirus infection . The apex bar body’s direction came a day after the Supreme Court issued […] Read more » justice Hrishikesh Roy Justice Indu Malhotra lawyers not to wear coat and long gowns not to wear coat and long gowns during COVID-19 The Bar Council of India
Top Law News Reply to PIL on housing essential staff in Mumbai: Bombay High Court May 16, 2020 / May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to respond to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking temporary accommodation in Mumbai for essential service providers, who commute between Mumbai and Palghar district each day for their work. The plea, filed by Charan Ravindra Bhatt, a resident of adjoining Palghar district, claims that such commute to […] Read more » Bombay High Court Charan Ravindra Bhatt Chief Justice Dipankar Datta COVID-19 in Palghar district Justice A A Sayed temporary accommodation in Mumbai for essential service providers
Top Law News India could avoid 72% of COVID-19 cases after lockdown by closing red light areas. May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Academicians from Yale School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have completed a study ‘Modelling the Effect of Continued Closure of Red-Light Areas on COVID-19 Transmission in India’. The study finds that Indians are at a much lower risk of getting COVID-19 if red light areas are kept closed after the lockdown, until an effective treatment […] Read more » 637500 sex workers as per the National Aids Control Organization closing red light areas COVID-19 pandemic Harvard Medical School India could avoid 72% of COVID-19 cases after lockdown Yale School of Medicine
