Justice L Nageswara Rao

Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Saturday gave full credit of filling up the vacancies in the Supreme Court, as well as various High Courts of the country, to the Supreme Court Collegium, calling it a team effort.

Advocate Diksha Mishra, Counsel of petitioner Haldibari Tea Manufacturers LLP, suggested the name of Justice A K Ganguly, on which respondent Vishwanathan KV also gave his consent, to solve their dispute.

The Supreme Court has observed that no sympathies can be shown to medical students, who have entered through the backdoor.

The Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the delay being caused in the release of convicts after granting of bail on the ground that the jail authorities did not receive the authentic copy of the court order

The majority also set aside other provisions of the Ordinance, including four-year tenure of Chairmen and members of various tribunals, calling them unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court said that an insolvency case against the company does not discharge the liability of guarantors.

The plea stated that hospitals in Noida and Gurugram have made it mandatory to produce Aadhaar cards with a local Noida or Gurugram address, as the case may be, for being eligible to be admitted to hospitals in these two cities.

The Court has constituted a 12-member National Taskforce to streamline and ensure the “effective and transparent” allocation of Liquid Medical Oxygen to States and UTs and its audit.

The plea stated that hospitals in Noida and Gurgaon have made it mandatory to produce Aadhaar cards with a local Noida or Gurgaon address, as the case may be, for being eligible to be admitted to the hospitals situated there.

Justice Chandrachud said the Supreme Court’s function here is complementary, especially when there is a pan-India issue being considered.