-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed a ceiling of Rs 50 for public bodies, including legislative assemblies and High Courts, for providing information under the Right to Information Act. A bench of Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit also ruled that the government bodies could not charge more than Rs 5 per page for giving photocopies of documents sought under the Act. It...
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How the milestone was reached: From Common Cause PIL to case of nurse Aruna Shanbaug
-The Telegraph The chronology of events related to the Supreme Court verdict allowing a “living will” for passive euthanasia May 11, 2005: Supreme Court takes note of PIL filed by NGO Common Cause seeking permission to allow terminally ill persons to execute a living will for passive euthanasia. Court seeks the Centre’s response to the plea asking for declaration of “right to die with dignity” as a fundamental right under right to...
More »Righting wrongs in land acquisition -Jairam Ramesh & Muhammad Khan
-The Hindu A Supreme Court Bench will decide whether the law has to be interpreted expansively or in a narrow sense In July 2011, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government embarked on an ambitious project to rewrite the law on land acquisition. How the government acquired land from private parties had long been the subject of heated dispute, often resulting in violent conflict. Several previous governments had made attempts to amend the Land...
More »Consumer plaint disposal drops as case flow surges -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The disposal of cases filed in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), the country's apex consumer commission, is at its lowest in four years while the number of cases has hit an all-time high. According to details available on the central online database of consumer forums (CONFONET), the number of cases disposed of by the NCDRC was 5,812 till Tuesday, against 10,678 cases filed and...
More »Bhargavi Zaveri, senior research associate at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, interviewed by Nitin Sethi (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in The Insolvency and Banking Code was brought in as a law in May 2016 to resolve cases of unpaid debts by companies. It allows creditors to initiate insolvency proceedings against defaulting companies so as to recover their money. The code was thought necessary because existing systems of dealing with insolvent companies had failed to deliver, with cases dragging on for years without result. The code sets up an Insolvency and Bankruptcy...
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