The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday issued an order withdrawing 5,570 cases filed against journalists, media personnel and protestors between 2011 and 2021 Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin had announced that these cases would be withdrawn while addressing the state assembly on June 24 this year, the Deccan Herald reported. The 5,570 cases withdrawn by Government Order
The High Court on Wednesday heard a public interest litigation filed for conducting post-mortem in a virtual way. After hearing the matter, the division bench has asked the Center and the state government to file their replies within four weeks. The hearing was held in a division bench of Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma and Justice
Over a week after the Supreme Court rapped the Union government on the lack of clarity on what can be considered a COVID-19-related death, the latter has filed an affidavit with guidelines. The Union government said that the health ministry and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have devised guidelines for official documentation of deaths due
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the state government has sanctioned around Rs 70 crore for digitisation of subordinate or lower courts, so as to provide justice to the common man easily. The Chief Minister said this, while welcoming President Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, Law Minister Kiren
Marriages can be registered in the virtual presence of parties, the Delhi High Court has ruled, saying that in the present times, citizens cannot be prevented from exercising their rights because of a rigid interpretation of law which calls for “personal presence”. Hearing a plea by a US-based Indian couple seeking to register their marriage
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of Allahabad High Court appealed to the lawyers and said that you argue in Hindi, I will give all the decisions in Hindi only. He said that Hindi language unites the nation. Hindi is continuously expanding abroad. It is a matter of pride for us. Said that I give 25% of
Cow should be declared as the national animal of India, the Allahabad High Court said on Wednesday. , the court also said that cow protection be made a fundamental right of Hindus. “…because we know that when country’s culture and its faith gets hurt, the country becomes weak,” the court said while denying bail to
The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it may resume its physical functioning on experimental basis. It was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from August 16. The administrative order issued by High Court Registrar General Manoj Jain said this will be done in a restricted manner subject to further orders based on evaluation of
By Sushma Narayanan The Supreme Court declined to hear a PIL seeking a direction to allow to restart the distribution of a “herbal concoction” claiming it has shown miraculous results in numerous COVID 19 patients, including critical patients with low oxygen levels. The suit filed by law students( Abhinandan C ) and submitted before the
By Ruzela Da Cruz The ‘Right to be Forgotten’ is the right to have the personal information of a person which is publicly available to be lawfully removed from public records including the internet. The Madras High Court recently made an important observation regarding this essential Right to be forgotten. Justice N Anand Venkatesh observed
