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
Top Law News Bombay High Court : Man held for hindering COVID-19 data collection gets bail. May 7, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to a city resident arrested for obstructing a team collecting data on COVID-19 from his residential society. The court also directed him to deposit Rs 10,000 in the chief ministers relief fund for coronavirus. Justice Bharati Dangre was hearing a bail plea filed by one Zafar Jamal Khan, […] Read more » Bombay High Court COVID-19 pandemic Disaster Management Act Section 51(B) hindering COVID-19 data collection Justice Bharati Dangre
Top Law News Plea in SC challenges circular on meat consumption during COVID-19 April 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A religion-based organisation has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on a circular by the Centre, declaring consumption of non-vegetarian food amid the COVID-19 pandemic as safe. The petition filed by Vishwa Jain Sangathan sought a stay of the March 30 circular, issued by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, contending that […] Read more » consumption of non-vegetarian food amid the COVID-19 pandemic as safe COVID-19 pandemic meat consumption during COVID-19 slaughter of animals
High Profile Cases COVID-19 pandemic: SC takes suo moto cognisance of overcrowding of prisons. March 18, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto cognisance of overcrowding and infrastructure of prisons across the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and L N Rao issued a notice to the Director General, Prison, and chief secretary of all states and union territories seeking […] Read more » Chief Justice S A Bobde COVID-19 pandemic Justice L N Rao SC on COVID-19 pandemic suo moto cognisance of overcrowding and infrastructure of prisons
