-TheFederal.com 'It has become a fashion to blame the farmers. Have you seen how crackers are being burnt in Delhi for the last seven days? What was the Delhi Police doing?' The Supreme Court on Saturday called the toxic air pollution in Delhi-NCR an “emergency” situation and asked the Centre and the Delhi government to take urgent steps to improve the air quality. The court went on to suggest steps such as stopping...
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Fifteen RTI information commissioners write to CJI, urge action against courts staying orders of information commissioners
-Leaflet.in IN a letter dated September 9, 2021 by a group of 15 sitting and retired information commissioners addressed to the Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, the problem of high courts staying the orders of Information Commissioners has been highlighted, and the Supreme Court has been urged to take action on the same. In the letter, the information commissioners requested that directions be given to courts across the country to not...
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-PTI/ The Hindu Pleas are related to reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on September 13 a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged snooping on certain people in India involving Pegasus, the Israeli spyware. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana had on September 7 granted more time to the Centre to decide...
More »"Make Farm Laws Report Public": Panel Member To Chief Justice NV Ramana -Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV Anil Ghanwat, who was nominated to represent the farming community in the committee, wrote to Justice NV Ramana, "I feel that the report has not been given any attention by the Hon'ble Supreme Court" . New Delhi: A member of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on farm laws has written to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, seeking that a report submitted on the issue be made public. The panel had submitted...
More »Towards a more humane police force -RK Vij
-The Hindu Efforts are on to improve the human rights protection regime in police stations Earlier this month, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana expressed concern at the degree of human rights violations in police stations in the country. He said that “the threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest in police stations”. He also said that “in spite of constitutional declarations and guarantees, lack of effective legal representation...
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