News Update Supreme Court quashed the FIR against Devang Mishra while interpreting section 153A IPC 11 Dec 202011 Dec 2020 Section 153A of the IPC was interpreted by Supreme Court where the court held that the term 'public tranquility' must be read in a restricted sense synonymous with public order…
News Update Australia’s billion dollar coronavirus vaccine is SCRAPPED after trial participants returned HIV false positives 11 Dec 2020 The University of Queensland had been developing the Covid vaccine in partnership with pharmaceutical company CSL and the government had ordered 51 million doses. However, it has been scrapped after…
News Update Madras High Court voices concern for the police force and questions the state 10 Dec 2020 On 7th December 2020, the Madras High Court addressed a writ of mandamus seeking an increase in per capita income of the Police force in the state. While addressing this…
News Update After J&K cities urgency, HC fixes Dec 11 to hear review plea: 10 Dec 2020 A day after the J&K HC fixes Dec 16 to hear the UT administration petition seeking to review it's October 9 judgment scraping the Roshni Act, which seeks to cancel…
News Update Centre’s response sought on de-facto imposition of Aarogya Setu: Bombay HC 10 Dec 2020 A plea has been filed by Tanya Mahajan in the Bombay High Court challenging the mandatory imposition of the Aarogya Setu App in the Regional Passport Office, Mumbai. The petitioner…
News Update Bombay High Court : Conduct workshops on humanity for prison authorities. 9 Dec 2020 A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik said, “Humanity is most important. Everything else will follow. This is high time to conduct a workshop for prison authorities.”…
News Update Supreme court says no reasons for state govts to paste covid posters outside patient’s home 9 Dec 20209 Dec 2020 Today, the Supreme Court clarified that there is no basis for state government authorities to paste posters of Covid outside the home of the patient. The Supreme Court bench of…
News Update Meeting of Centre-farm unions cancelled, farmer leaders say, will discuss after draft proposal 9 Dec 20209 Dec 2020 The farmers’ protest against the three new agricultural laws has entered the day *14*, Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that their meeting with the central government which…
News Update Supreme Court says that Criticism of government action cannot be a ground for a penal action 8 Dec 20208 Dec 2020 In the case of journalist Amish Devgan, the court observed that criticism about the government will not be a ground for penal action. The petitions were filed by the journalist…
News Update Roshni Act: J&K HC to hear review plea on Dec 16 8 Dec 2020 The review petition, filed by the Union Territory administration which seeks to modify the court's October 9 decision declaring J&K state land act, 2001 "void ab initio" and ordering CBI…