Source: business-standard.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which it had asked the Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited and the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to consider the objections raised by the former directors of the company before finalising any
Source: moneycontrol.com Citing recent cases of violence against doctors, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) on July 1 asked the government to declare hospitals as “safe zones” and asserted that exemplary punishment for perpetrators of such acts should be a component of the central law. On National Doctors’ Day, the IMA organized a mass awareness programme
Source: thehindu.com Supreme Court judge, Justice Indu Malhotra, on Monday recused herself from hearing a clutch of petitions and cross-petitions challenging a Bombay High Court order on possession, storage and consumption of beef brought into Maharashtra from other States. Justice Malhotra, who was part of the Bench led by Justice A.M. Sapre, said she had
Source: news18.com The Supreme Court of India has deferred a hearing scheduled for public interest litigations, filed in protest of the Home Ministry’s December 20, 2018 order that sanctioned 10 central agencies to monitor, tap and decrypt private communication channels on digital platforms. While the order was issued in light of promoting national security, concerns
Source: indiatoday.in The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Centre to constitute within two weeks a high-level committee of experts to ascertain whether spraying insecticides or fumigation to ward off mosquitoes in aircraft was harmful for passengers. The court, which was hearing pleas against the National Green Tribunal’s ban on spraying of disinfectants and pesticides in
Source: hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court rebuked the Bihar government Tuesday for ‘humiliating, harassing and victimising’ an IAS officer who took a tough stand against the transport mafia despite threats to his life. The court directed the central government to initiate inter-cadre transfer of the 2013-batch IAS officer Jitendra Gupta forthwith and issue the order
Source: dnaindia.com Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani has moved the Gujarat High Court for quashing of an FIR registered against him for sharing a video on Twitter of a student being mercilessly beaten up by a teacher and ‘wrongly’ claiming that the video belongs to RM and VM Desai Sarvajanik Vidyalaya in Valsad. The video was
Source: newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a doctor to bring on record specific instances showing that patients were prematurely declared brain dead by private hospitals in Kerala to harvest their organs as has been alleged in his petition. The apex court said it can examine the allegations if some evidence is brought
Source: deccanchronicle.com KOCHI: The High Court on Tuesday came down on the state government for issuing an order preventing officials from providing any information on inter-state river disputes under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A single bench, taking exception to the wordings of the government order, stated: “I must say that I fail to
Source: news18.com London: In an order that brought relief, The UK High Court on Tuesday allowed embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya to appeal at least on one of the five grounds against his extradition order signed off by the UK home secretary to face alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to Rs 9,000 crore
