Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar secretary and senior advocate Manoj Sharma wrote a letter to the Chief Justice and stressed on the need for pre-summer vacation arguing the risk of corona infection to deepen in mid-may
The petition has been filed by Advocate Tanveer Ahmed Mir in public interest seeking necessary relief regarding the unfortunate demise of judicial officers, court staff and registry officials of the Subordinate Judiciary of Delhi due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Luthra appearing before the Delhi High Court submitted, “Your lordship was pleased to keep it on 17th May. An SLP was filed, my request is that there is an emergency, a health emergency.”
The Delhi High Court granted a three-week interim bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal, to attend the last rites of her father, who succumbed to Covid-19 on Sunday.
Two men, Achhar Singh and Budhi Singh, had challenged their conviction by the Himachal Pradesh High Court. One had been sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and the other to undergo life imprisonment, plus a fine. The High Court had overturned their acquittal by the trial court.
The Supreme Court has set up a twelve-member National task force which would be tasked with formulating a methodology for the scientific allocation of Oxygen to the States and UTs.
“The prophylactic 'SMS' against Covid-19 – Sanitiser, Mask and Social Distancing – was unfortunately lost in the din of the electoral campaigns. There is a general sentiment that we let our guard down, but we cannot let it happen again," observed Kerala High Court on Friday.
The Supreme Court has directed the high-powered committees constituted by the state governments and union territories to consider the early parole of prisoners by adopting the guidelines followed by them last year.
NGO Christian Educational Society moved Court saying it had supplied all documents but possibly delay in opening the account could have also been due to the pandemic. In the meantime, the NGO is unable to raise or disburse funds from donors abroad.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) to treat an octogenarian in the hospital itself who was admitted following a brain stroke and later found Covid positive.