The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of a Maulana, who has been accused of forcibly converting a victim to Islam and performing her Nikaah with a Muslim man. A single-judge bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Mohd Shane Alam. By…
The Supreme Court Collegium on Wednesday recommended the names of three Advocates for appointment as judges in the Delhi High Court. The Collegium, comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice BR Gavai, passed a resolution in this regard today. It said after having consultation with Acting Chief Justice of the…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two petitions, which sought to include Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu as an accused in the cash-for-votes scam case, and to transfer the investigation in the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Dismissing the petitions filed by Alla Ramakrishna Reddy, the Bench of Justice M…
The Supreme Court has observed that the selection of a candidate belonging to a vertical reservation category, when selected in the open or general category on his own merit, would not be counted against the quota reserved for vertical reservation categories. Allowing the petition filed by Ramnaresh alias Rinku Kushwah and others against a verdict…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected bail to a man accused of committing unnatural acts with cows. A Single Bench of Justice Piyush Agrawal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Harikishan. The second bail application has been filed by the applicant seeking bail in Case under Sections 377 IPC,…
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Kapil Sibal recently met Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and asked him to review the current process being followed by the Supreme Court for the designation of lawyers as Senior Advocates. As per a leading legal news platform, SG Mehta confirmed that he…
During the hearing of the Suo Motu case on the rape and murder of a doctor at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (August 20) questioned the West Bengal Government and the police over the handling of the case. At the outset, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud expressed deep concerns…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg The controversy ensued when in an interview with PTI Indian Medical Association (IMA) President Dr RV Asokan had answered queries about Patanjali Ayurved Ltd’s misleading advertisement case, stating that it was “unfortunate” that the Supreme Court had criticized the IMA as well as some of the practices of private doctors….
On August 7, the health ministry made changes in the New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019. Now drugs approved in the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, Canada and European Union can be used in India without local clinical trials. This would make drugs manufactured outside India more accessible and affordable in the local market….
By Sujit Bhar In the wee hours of August 9, a lady PG trainee doctor at the 138-year-old RG Medical College of Kolkata watched Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra’s silver winning performance at the Paris Olympic Games with her colleagues and went to sleep, presumably at the seminar room of the hospital. She was on…