The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail for three days to activist Umar Khalid, an accused in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots, permitting him to visit his ailing mother, who is scheduled to undergo surgery on June 2. The Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and…
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has closed abuse of dominance proceedings against 12 super-speciality hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region, holding that no contravention of Section 4 of the Competition Act, 2002 was made out in relation to allegations of excessive pricing of medicines, diagnostics, medical devices, consumables and room rent charged from in-patients. The…
The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with environmental clearances granted for a coal mining project in Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district involving Mahan Energen Limited, a subsidiary of the Adani Group, after noting delay in challenging the approvals. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe passed the order on Thursday on a…
Advocate Devvrat has been elected as the new President of the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) following the association’s executive committee elections held on Thursday. Advocate Nikhil Jain was elected Vice President, while Advocate Yugandhara Pawar Jha secured the post of Secretary in the newly elected body. While Devvrat secured the post after defeating Advocate…
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has emphasised that the Constitution is not the exclusive preserve of a privileged class, but a living document that belongs equally to every citizen of the country. Speaking at the release of senior advocate Indira Jaising’s memoir, The Constitution Is My Home: Conversations on a Life in Law,…
A Special Leave Petition (SLP) has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment that declared the Bhojshala–Kamal Maula complex in Dhar district a protected Hindu temple site and consequently barred Muslim worship, including namaz, at the premises. Filed by Qazi Moinuddin, who had intervened in the proceedings before the…
Supreme Court judge Justice BV Nagarathna has called for greater solidarity among women lawyers, emphasising the need for sisterhood within the legal profession to address structural inequalities. Addressing the gathering at the launch of Senior Advocate Indira Jaising’s book “The Constitution is my Home,” Justice Nagarathna said the legal profession has historically been shaped by…
Activist and scholar Umar Khalid has filed an application in the Delhi High Court seeking interim bail in a case related to the larger conspiracy allegedly leading to the riots in North East Delhi in 2020, which left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured. The Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and…
A criminal contempt petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Gopal Rai and Saurabh Bhardwaj, and journalist Saurav Das, alleging that they ran a coordinated online campaign against Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, aimed at scandalising the judiciary and interfering with ongoing…
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted interim protection from coercive action to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee in connection with an FIR registered over his alleged remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah during an election rally ahead of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. The single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya directed…