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[COVID Vaccination] CHH HC│ Fixing a priority with reference to the ‘financial status’ is absolutely illegal; Violates “Right to Life”; State is directed to fix a reasonable ratio of allotment of vaccines

Chhattisgarh High Court: A Division Bench of P.R. Ramchandra Menon and Parth Prateem Sahu JJ. laid down noteworthy observations regarding equitable allotment

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[COVID-19 surge] P&H HC| “Consider home delivery of Oxygen cylinders for patients who are on oxygen support at home”; HC suggests deploying municipal workers for home delivery of oxygen

Punjab and Haryana High Court: The Division Bench of Rajan Gupta and Karamjit Singh, JJ., asked the governments Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh

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Del HC| Migrant Workers’ right to livelihood and free Medical aid; High Court directs Delhi government to form a structured Scheme for Unorganized workers within 2 weeks

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench comprising of Manmohan and Asha Menon, JJ., addressed the present writ petition with regards to right

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HP HC│ “NO MEANS NO”; Neither the absence of resistance nor the unwilling submission implies consent in any language; Bail rejected

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Anoop Chitkara J. dismissed the petition on the observations made hereunder. The facts of the case are such

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[COVID-19 surge] Del HC| “Consider exempting Oxygen Concentrators from IGST”, HC tells Finance Ministry

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Rajiv Shadher abd Talwant Singh, JJ., addressed the instant petition challenging the imposition of Integrated

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[Covid-19 surge] Pat HC| “Most of the directions have remained on paper”; HC expresses disappointment over State inactions

Patna High Court: The Division Bench of Chakradhari Sharan Singh And Mohit Kumar Shah, JJ., expressed its sheer dissatisfaction over the progress

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Ker HC| Muslim women’s right to Khula (extra-judicial divorce) revived; Patriarchal decision in K. C. Moyin overruled

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A. Muhamed Mustaque and C. S. Dias, JJ., addressed the controversial question regarding rights of

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Delhi HC issues Contempt notice to Center for non-supply of oxygen to NCT of Delhi

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench comprising of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., addressed the issue regarding rising death toll due

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KAR HC│ One of the most profound tenets of Constitutionalism is presumption of Constitutionality assigned to each legislation enacted

Karnataka High Court: P.S. Dinesh Kumar J dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that

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Ker HC| CAs Right to Practice: Can ICAI refuse to recognize retirement of CA from a firm? HC explains legal position

Kerala High Court: N.Nagaresh, J., pronounced a landmark judgment regarding right to practice of Chartered Accountants. The Bench held, “The decision of

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J&K HC| “Rs. 2000 maintenance is not ‘exorbitant or excessive’ in present era of inflation”; HC questions existence of Talaq given through registered post

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Rajnesh Oswal, J., heard the instant petition against the order of the Trial Court whereby the petitioner

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[COVID 19 surge] RAJ HC│”Deal with the situation on war footing”; Directions issued to curb beds, oxygen, Remdesivir shortage in Rajasthan

Rajasthan High Court: A Division Bench of Indrajit Mahanty and Vinit Kumar Mathur JJ. laid down important directions regarding COVID. The present

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High Courts Monthly Round-up: April 2021

Here’s a short recap of what we covered under the High Courts section in the month of April 2021. Allahabad High Court

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[Covid-19] Delhi HC comes down heavily on Central government; Warns Center of contempt proceedings if it fails to supply allocated medical Oxygen on urgent basis

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., slammed center government for its reckless attitude towards upsurging

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Del HC | Delhi Police should immediately release the seized Remdesivir or other Drug used for treating COVID-19 or any Oxygen Cylinders seized from the possession of patients or their attendants || Detailed Order on COVID-19 concerns

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., addressed the issues with regard to position of Non-ICU

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Del HC | Hoarding of medicines or Oxygen cylinders/ flow metres leads to artificial scarcity, to an extent which may not be there || Detailed Order of COVID-19 Crisis

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., while addressing concerns with regard to COVID-19, expressed that

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HP HC│ Can a wife give up her right to an enhanced rate of future maintenance through a contract? Will such contract be valid or void? Read on

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Tarlok Singh Chauhan J. allowed the present application and modified the previous order. Background The facts of the

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[COVID-19] Madras HC | States’ failure in filing status report: HC remarks State’s indolence knows no bounds to use pandemic as excuse for acting in flagrant breach of Court orders

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., while addressing the State’s failure in filing the

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J&K HC | [Jamat-i-Islami] HC quashes preventive detention order holding opportunity to effective representation an essential pre-requisite

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Sanjeev Kumar, J., heard the instant petition presented by the wife of the Petitioner to assail his

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P&H HC | “Investigation suffers from political maneuvering”; HC denies involvement of the former CM, Prakash Singh Badal in Kotkapura firing case

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Rajbir Serawat, J., addressed the controversial case of regarding three incidents of alleged sacrilege qua Guru Granth