News Update Karnataka High Court Initiates Suo-Motu Petition to Ensure Elections Are Held to Municipal Bodies 14 Dec 2020 A division bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty on Monday directed the registry to initiate a suo-motu writ petition to…
News Update Supreme Court: Year long ban removed restraining other court to pass decisions on problems revolving BCCI 14 Dec 2020 Bench of justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi in the case of Board of Control for cricket & Ors. vs Cricket Association of Bihar & Ors have…
News Update Supreme Court Refuses to Interfere With Justice Dharmadhikari Committee Report 13 Dec 2020 In the dispute relating to distribution of personnel between the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporations, the supreme bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and MR Shah, has held that…
News Update Permission to cut trees on Dumna Road should be re-examined, says Madhya Pradesh HC 13 Dec 2020 Background Environmentalist Nikita Khamparia, a resident of Ganganagar Colony, Jabalpur, filed a PIL stating that the four-lane road from Rani Durgavati University to Dumna Airport is being constructed. Trees are…
News Update Government of Uttar Pradesh goes to Supreme Court against the order of Allahabad High Court 13 Dec 2020 The UP government goes to Supreme Court in the Kafeel Khan case. Kafeel Khan, a doctor from Uttar Pradesh are taken into detention for his speech. The High Court said…
News Update FSSAI directed by CCPA to look into the matter of honey adulteration, notice sent to 6 firms for false Covid-19 protection claims. 12 Dec 2020 Background (CSE) released a report last week claiming that several major Indian brands are adulterating honey with sugar syrup. Outcome After this incident, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has…
News Update Transfer of Case of Tablighi Jamaat Leader to NIA: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea 11 Dec 2020 The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh, dismissed a plea seeking the transfer of investigation of a case against Tablighi Jamaat leader…
News Update Delhi High Court seeks stand of Centre & RBI on a PIL for regulating techfin firms like FB, Google, Amazon 10 Dec 2020 Background- The petition filed by an economist, Ms.Resmi P Bhaskaran, techfin entities are technology, telecommunications or e-commerce companies which have entered the financial sector to provide financial services and need…
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 Uttrakhand High Court’s order regarding Maharashtra Governor is stayed by Supreme Court 8 Dec 2020 Background Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was send a contempt of court notice by the Uttarakhand High Court for not paying the rent for government bungalow when he was chief…
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