Supreme Court Roundup April 2025
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This comprehensive roundup brings together the Court’s most impactful rulings and judicial developments from the month.

Manual scavenging compensation case
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“It appears that the State of Haryana has not paid any attention to our order dated 3-1-2025 nor has looked into the representation filed by the petitioner”

Justice Rajesh Bindal
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Prior to being elevated to the Supreme Court in 2023, Justice Rajesh Bindal was serving as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

Bombay High Court
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The creation of the social media handle and email address and uploading of the information on the website shall be done by the next date of hearing, i.e., 09-09-2024.

Justice S.V. Gangapurwala
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Acing the spheres of law, sports and education alike, Justice S.V. Gangapurwala served as Chief Justice of Madras High Court for 1 year and is set to retire on 23-05-2024.

High Court weekly Roundup
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A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.

Bombay High Court
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At present, as phase one, Bombay High Court directs that information be called from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Thane Municipal Corporation, Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation and MiraBhayander Municipal Corporation.

justice rajesh bindal
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Prior to being elevated to the Supreme Court in 2023, Justice Rajesh Bindal was serving as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

delhi high court
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“When a person approaches the court and gets a declaration of law in his favour, it is expected that the State shall extend the same benefit to all the similarly situated persons without forcing those persons to approach the court of law.”

delhi high court
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The present petition was filed for strict enforcement of the provisions of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. The issues involved in the present cases stand concluded on account of the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in Balram Singh v. Union of India, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 1386.

Manual Scavenging
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“For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.”- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

justice rajesh bindal
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Newly elevated Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice Rajesh Bindal, celebrates his 62nd birthday today. Prior to being elevated to the Supreme Court, Justice Bindal was serving as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

Allahabad High Court
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Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Rajesh Bindal, CJ. and J.J. Munir, J. had taken note of a news item published

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Allahabad High Court Disability In a case where an employee of Central Bank of India petitioned to be exempted from routine transfers

News

NHRC, India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report with the photographs of a man chest-deep in a muck standing

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NHRC Chairperson expresses serious concern over wide spread continuance of manual scavenging and hazardous cleaning; calls for implementation of innovative techniques to

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Orissa High Court: A Division Bench of S. Muralidhar, CJ and B.P Routray, J., directed 10 lakh compensation to be paid to

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Kerala High Court: The Division Bench comprising of S. Manikumar, CJ and Shaji P. Chaly, J., heard the instant PIL regarding demand

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