-Deccan Herald The High Court ordered the State government on Thursday to furnish the list of educational institutes which have refused to comply with the directions of Supreme Court and implement the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Hearing a petition by a City-based advocate and party in person S Vasudeva, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice A S Bopanna directed the government to furnish the details within two...
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Your law should not meddle with governance, Kapadia tells judges
-PTI Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Saturday said judges should not govern the country or evolve policies, and they should apply the enforceability test on some verdicts like making sleep a fundamental right. Doing some frank introspection on the judiciary’s functioning, he wondered what would happen if the executive refused to comply with its directives that might not be enforceable. “Right to life, we have said, includes environmental protection, right to...
More »SC issues Notice in case seeking disclosure of performance appraisal reports-Soibam Rocky Singh
-Law et al News The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central government on a petition seeking to disclose in public all ACRs (Annual Confidential Reports) or performance appraisal reports of all government officials under RTI. A bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya today sought response from the government on the petition which raises a vital public issue as to whether performance appraisal reports of a public...
More »SC rap for orphan rules -Samanwaya Rautray
-The Telegraph The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to explain why state-run orphanages throw out inmates the day they turn 18 though they may be unemployed and unable to fend for themselves. Acting on a public interest litigation filed by lawyer Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, the court issued the notices on Tuesday to the Union women and child development ministry and its counterparts in all the states and Union territories. It asked the...
More »How can judiciary enforce right to sleep? CJI asks -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India Chief Justice of India (CJI) SH Kapadia on Saturday said the Supreme Court might have overstretched the human rights jurisprudence to include right to sleep in the bouquet of fundamental rights, as enforcing such a right would be very difficult. The CJI, who was delivering a lecture, also seemed critical of the civil society activists for questioning the authority of Parliament to make laws and by draping themselves...
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