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[COVID-19] Del HC| Threefold increase in cases in JNU campus in 3 weeks! What steps have you taken? Court asks JNU Registrar to file status report

Delhi High Court: After the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union and the Teachers Union approached the High Court seeking a direction for

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SCC Online Weekly Rewind Vol. 1 Episode 9

9th Episode of SCC Online Weekly Rewind featuring Prachi Bhardwaj, Associate Editor bringing you the most important and interesting stories from the field

Hot Off The Press News

Want to get your matter listed before Madhya Pradesh High Court during summer vacation? Read this

On May 11, 2021, Madhya Pradesh High Court has partially modified it’s May 6th Order wherein it had issued directions as to

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC| ‘Release imperative in this hour of grief and personal loss’; Natasha Narwal gets bail for 3 weeks after father dies of COVID-19

Delhi High Court: After jailed activist Natasha Narwal’s father Mahavir Narwal breathed his last owing to COVID-19, the bench of Siddharth Mridul

Case Briefs High Courts

[COVID-19] Mad HC| Why are you not reviving Govt. Vaccine Institutes and Oxygen Plants? Notice to Govt as India faces vaccine and oxygen shortage

BHEL, Trichy, is having the facility of Oxygen production with three Oxygen plants, having capacity of 140 metric cube per hour, but, those plants are shut down since 2003. A dedicated Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) has been established at Chengalpattu in the year 2012, with international standards, which is having the capacity to produce 585 million doses, per year.

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras HC| People can be religious; Men may be communal; but roads and streets are secular; Religious procession cannot be prohibited in an area inhabited by a different religious group

“India is a secular country and merely because one religious group is living in majority in a particular area, it cannot be a reason for not allowing other religious festivals or processions through that area.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

No interference with Karnataka High Court’s order directing Centre to increase supply of oxygen to Karnataka to 1200 MT per day: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and MR Shah, JJ has dismissed the petition filed by the Central Government challenging

Case Briefs Supreme Court

COVID-19| National Task Force for allocation of oxygen to States: Who are the experts and what will they do? Here’s all you need to know

“Estimating projected needs is crucial to ensure that the country remains prepared to meet future eventualities, which will cause a demand for oxygen, medicines, infrastructure, manpower and logistics.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Limit arrests, release prisoners on parole: Read Supreme Court directions on containing COVID-19 spread in overcrowded prisons

India has more than four lakh prison inmates. Some of the prisons in India are overburdened and are housing inmates beyond optimal capacity.

Legislation Updates Rules & Regulations

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2021, notified

The Securities Exchange Board of India has amended Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008 to enforce Securities and Exchange

Legislation Updates Notifications

COVID-19 | MCA offers relaxation in the number of board meetings and filing of forms

On May 3, 2021, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs issued a notification whereby the rules in respect of number of board meetings

Case Briefs High Courts

[COVID-19 surge] Del HC| Severe shortage of Tocilizumab injections; 500 vials would not be sufficient for large number of critical COVID-19 patients in Delhi

Delhi High Court: Taking note of the “imminent need” for drug – Tocilizumab for treating critically ill patients in Delhi, Pratibha M.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Madras High Court’s remarks harsh, metaphor inappropriate but can’t be expunged; Supreme Court junks EC’s plea seeking restrain on Media reporting Court proceedings

During the course of the hearing, the Madras High Court had allegedly orally observed that the EC is “the institution that is singularly responsible for the second wave of COVID-19” and that the EC “should be put up for murder charges”.

Case Briefs Supreme Court (Constitution/Larger Benches)

Maratha Reservation unconstitutional| The timeline of the case and the 3 questions that received unanimous opinions of all 5 judges

“Sufficient and adequate representation of Maratha community in public services is indicator that they are not socially and educationally backward.”

Legislation Updates Notifications

Ministry of Labour and Employment to collect Aadhar details from beneficiaries under Social Security Code, 2020

The Ministry of Labour & Employment has issued a notification on May 3, 2021 to enforce Section 142 of the Social Security

Case Briefs Supreme Court

COVID-19| Schools can’t profit from unutilised facilities; Rajasthan Schools to provide 15% deduction of annual fees for academic year 2020-21: Supreme Court

“The school Management supposedly engaged in doing charitable activity of imparting education, is expected to be responsive and alive to that situation and take necessary remedial measures to mitigate the hardship suffered by the students and their parents. It is for the school Management to reschedule payment of school fee in such a way that not even a single student is left out or denied opportunity of pursuing his/her education, so as to effectuate the adage “live and let live”.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of Section 124A IPC. Read why it came into force and why 5-judge bench in Kedar Nath Singh verdict found it constitutional

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of UU Lalit, Indira Banerjee and KM Joseph, JJ has issued notice in a plea seeking declaration

Supreme Court Roundups

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[COVID-19] Del HC| Threefold increase in cases in JNU campus in 3 weeks! What steps have you taken? Court asks JNU Registrar to file status report

SCC Online Weekly Rewind Vol. 1 Episode 9

Want to get your matter listed before Madhya Pradesh High Court during summer vacation? Read this

Del HC| ‘Release imperative in this hour of grief and personal loss’; Natasha Narwal gets bail for 3 weeks after father dies of COVID-19

[COVID-19] Mad HC| Why are you not reviving Govt. Vaccine Institutes and Oxygen Plants? Notice to Govt as India faces vaccine and oxygen shortage

Madras HC| People can be religious; Men may be communal; but roads and streets are secular; Religious procession cannot be prohibited in an area inhabited by a different religious group

No interference with Karnataka High Court’s order directing Centre to increase supply of oxygen to Karnataka to 1200 MT per day: Supreme Court

COVID-19| National Task Force for allocation of oxygen to States: Who are the experts and what will they do? Here’s all you need to know

Limit arrests, release prisoners on parole: Read Supreme Court directions on containing COVID-19 spread in overcrowded prisons

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Intermediaries) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2021, notified

COVID-19 | MCA offers relaxation in the number of board meetings and filing of forms

[COVID-19 surge] Del HC| Severe shortage of Tocilizumab injections; 500 vials would not be sufficient for large number of critical COVID-19 patients in Delhi

Madras High Court’s remarks harsh, metaphor inappropriate but can’t be expunged; Supreme Court junks EC’s plea seeking restrain on Media reporting Court proceedings

Maratha Reservation unconstitutional| The timeline of the case and the 3 questions that received unanimous opinions of all 5 judges

Ministry of Labour and Employment to collect Aadhar details from beneficiaries under Social Security Code, 2020

COVID-19| Schools can’t profit from unutilised facilities; Rajasthan Schools to provide 15% deduction of annual fees for academic year 2020-21: Supreme Court

Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of Section 124A IPC. Read why it came into force and why 5-judge bench in Kedar Nath Singh verdict found it constitutional

Supreme Court Monthly Roundup – April 2021

COVID-19 surge| Supreme Court’s Summer Vacation preponed

Soli J. Sorabjee: A champion of human rights and Jazz!