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Written by: Ayushi Arya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) On Thursday 13 May, the Karnataka High Court said that not giving a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine is the violation of Fundamental Rights under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. BACKGROUND The High Court bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Arvind Kum …

Written by: Shubham B Jha (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Supreme Court Bar Association has announced a ‘General Assistance Scheme’ for 2021 to support the families of lawyers who are members of the SCBA and are suffering economic difficulties due to the death of such a lawyer at a very young age. The body also ha …

Written by: Akash Deep (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Supreme Court of India ordered 36,000 private schools of Rajasthan to reduce the fees by 15% for AY 2020-21. The court also ordered that no student should be barred from attending virtual or physical classes. The Supreme Court upheld the Rajasthan High Court’s …

Written by: Ashi Chouksey Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Recently, Mamata Banerjee lost the Nandigram constituency in West Bengal and still took oath as West Bengal Chief Minister. Can a person after losing an election be appointed as a CM? Constitutionally, yes! In India, anybody can be appointed as a minister, chief minister o …

Written by: Ayushi Arya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court by Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi requesting for the suspension of construction activity at Central Vista Development Project i.e., construction of a new Parliament House. BACKGROUND The petitioner claimed that the …

Written by: Shubham B Jha (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Bombay High Court has sent a notice to the National Investigation Agency and directed it for a reply on the Bail Plea of one of the accused of the Bhima Koregaon violence, Mr. Stan Swamy who is a priest at one of the local churches in Ranchi. Another activist M …

Written by: Akash Deep (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Supreme Court heard the suo moto case regarding the issues coming from COVID-19 crisis in the country. The case was heard by a three-judge bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud along with Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice S. Ravindra Bhatt. In the suo moto …

Written by: Shubham B Jha (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) Two journalists from Manipur and Chhattisgarh have filed a writ petition in the Apex Court of India challenging the legality and the necessity of the much controversial law of Sedition as mentioned in Section 124A of the Penal Code, 1860. Mr. Kishore Chandra Wa …

Written by: Ashi Chouksey (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Wednesday, 28th April commended the role of social media in reaching out to the citizens who are in sore need of help. The single judge bench of J ustice Arvind Singh Sangwan , although, add on that a micro percentage of medi …

Written by: Ayushi Arya (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Election Commission of India (ECI) approached the Madras High Court to obtain an order from the Court to block the Media from reporting oral comments made by the judges during the hearing of election-related cases. B ACKGROUND The petition filed on April 6 in Ma …

Written by: Sagar Rana (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) The Delhi High Court, on 26 th April 2021,   brought back  a disposed-of petition filed by advocate Rakesh Malhotra related to Covid-19 testing’s and infrastructure, stating that the virus has raised its “ ugly head ” once again. The court said the pande …

Written by: Muskan Rathore (Intern) Edited by: Anubhav Yadav (Content Head & Developer) T he order passed on 5 th January 2021 registered suo moto , i n Re ; Suo Moto v. State of Uttar Pradesh, by the Allahabad High Court, the court has once again extended all the interim orders which were existing on until 15 th March 2021 till the end of May of th is …