-The Hindu Chief secretaries, registrars general of High Courts will be liable for non-compliance. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upped the ante on the States, Union Territories and High Courts which have not provided it with details of criminal cases pending against sitting lawmakers, warning that their Chief Secretaries and Registrars General will be made personally liable for non-compliance. The Centre informed the court that so far a dozen such courts had...
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Supreme Court taps government on Johnson & Johnson hip implants
-The Telegraph Call for expert view on complaints against J&J New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to furnish an expert probe committee’s report on allegations that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy had supplied faulty hip implants to hundreds of patients in India. It also sought the government’s response to a public interest petition that accuses the Centre and Mumbai police of inaction in the matter. A bench headed by Chief...
More »Aadhaar Judgement: Supreme Court Upholds Validity But Says Don't Need to Link to Bank Accounts, Mobile Phones
-TheWire.in The court has placed strict restrictions on the scope of the project while striking down contentious provisions of the Aadhaar Act. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the Aadhaar programme and the Aadhaar Act 2016 to be constitutional, but placed strict limitations on the scope of the project while striking down several contentious provisions of the legislation including clauses that allowed sharing of data for national security purposes and...
More »Centre vows to broadcast stern warning on lynching -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Message that mob action will invite ‘wrath of law’ to start on TV, radio in a week: Govt. tells SC The Centre on Monday assured the Supreme Court that the Union and State governments would, within a week, start broadcasting on radio and TV a stern message that mob lynchings and violence would invite the “wrath of law”. The Centre’s promise came in response to a query by a Bench...
More »These Delhi lawyers take legal aid beyond courtrooms -Aamir Khan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: When she saw a family all at sea in the court corridors, advocate Anjali Rajput stepped in to offer free legal aid. Like her, over 130 advocates on the panel of the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) offer much-needed help to citizen litigants in Delhi's 11 districts, not only in courtrooms, but also through awareness camps in schools, slums, police stations and other public...
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