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Attempts Being Made to Dilute Anti-Corruption Laws, AP Shah Writes to Modi -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

-TheWire.in The letter by the former Delhi chief justice highlights the dangers of decriminalising the Companies Act, introducing electoral bonds, weakening the RTI Act and not implementing of the Lokpal Act and Whistleblowers Protection Act. New Delhi: In a letter sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former chief justice of Delhi high court and noted rights activist A.P. Shah has lamented that “instead of increasing transparency and accountability and making the deterrents...

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SC scan on info panel vacancies -R Balaji

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and nine states, including Bengal, to file affidavits within four weeks stating by when they would fill their vacant posts of information commissioners and, in some cases, even chief information commissioners. The bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan were hearing a petition from RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj, who cited four vacancies in the Central Information Commission and many...

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SC warning on disability access

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned it would summon chief secretaries of states and officials concerned of the central government if they didn't comply with its December 15 directives to provide adequate facilities at public places for the differently abled. "We have not said anything new in our verdict (December 2017). It was your (the Centre's) law and we just asked you to comply with it. We are...

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Constitutional matters heard by CJI can be live streamed on trial basis: Centre to SC

-PTI The bench was of the view that barring few exceptions like hearings in a rape case, the courts are already open for all and allowing live streaming of the proceedings would further establish the settled principle. New Delhi: Video recording and live streaming of judicial proceedings can be undertaken on a trial basis in constitutional matters being heard by the Chief Justice of India’s court, the Centre told the Supreme Court...

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'Violence can't be allowed': SC condemns mob lynchings, asks Parliament to make law -Bhadra Sinha

-Hindustan Times The Supreme Court was hearing a bunch of petitions on the recent lynching incidents in the country. New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked Parliament to come up with an anti-lynching law to tackle cow vigilantism and lynch mobs even as it laid down preventive, remedial, and punitive measures against the backdrop of a spate of such incidents across the country. The measures laid down by the court also include steps to...

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