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How two websites have transformed the way India is reading about courts – and understanding the law -Sruthisagar Yamunan

-Scroll.in ‘LiveLaw’ and ‘Bar & Bench’ have revolutionised legal reporting by tweeting about proceedings in real time, bringing them to the screens of general readers. On November 19, Justice DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court of India made a passing comment while hearing a case. “I will tell you something in a lighter vein,” he said. “Instead of wading through the pleadings before us, I thought I will check LiveLaw or other...

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6 ex-bureaucrats move SC seeking judicial probe into Modi Govt’s ‘gross mismanagement’ of COVID-19, lockdown

-National Herald The plea says the Centre failed to “undertake timely and effective measures for containing transmission of disease within India” despite being notified about the same by WHO in January, 2020. Six retired bureaucrats have moved the Supreme Court seeking an independent inquiry by a Commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, into the Central Government's "gross mismanagement" of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, legal news website LiveLaw.in has...

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SC takes note of Centre’s inability to constitute National Disaster Mitigation Fund

-LiveLaw.in The Centre told the Supreme Court bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur and NV Ramana, on August 1, of its inability to comply with its direction regarding constitution of the National Disaster Mitigation Fund. The bench had directed the Centre on May 11 to constitute the Fund in terms of Section 47 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.   The Additional Solicitor General, P.V.Narasimha told the bench that Section 47 has...

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SC orders Prosecution of Security Personnel involved in Fake Encounters in North East; Draconian AFSPA under scanner

-LiveLaw.in The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to prosecute security personnel, including of Army and CRPF involved in fake encounter killings in the Northeast under the cover of draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA).   “Better launch prosecution against the personnel involved. Now it’s like you kill 10 people, pay compensation and the matter ends there. We also wonder why people are found to have been shot in their back,”...

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