Month: September 2020

It is remarkable, refreshing and reassuring to learn that just recently on 31 August 2020, the Gauhati High Court in a latest and laudable judgment titled Nasiruddin Ali vs The State of Assam and Anr. Represented by P.P.  in Case No. Crl.A. 227/2016 has laid down in no uncertain terms that rape is a violation

September 04, 2020 Post COVID take-off: Refurbishing the Tourism and Hospitality Runway! With the dawn of technology and modernization, the fear of exposure of the most vulnerable sectors, namely tourism and hospitality, of the Indian economy to insolvency is sky high as they are inter-locked and interwoven. These sectors which are majorly dependent upon the

A Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan (in Delhi High Court) issued a notice today, in an application given as a part of Vikrant Tongad v. Union of India, seeking a direction to further extend the deadline by 60 days to submit objections to the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. While disposing

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has concluded its emergency meeting today following NLSIU Bangalore’s surprise exit from the admissions test to conduct its own, and has decided to pressure NLSIU to come back into the fold. NLSIU has quasi-responded with a press release, showing little signs of giving in to that plea. According

September 04, 2020 Delhi HC issues notice on govt review petition against translation of EIA draft [ by Legal Era News Network ] The Delhi High Court today issued notice in Central Government’s review petition against the judicial order to ensure that the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2020 is published in all

September 04, 2020 Noida should have properly verified land acquisition process of builder before allowing it: NCLAT [ by Legal Era News Network ] The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in an order held that the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida) should have properly verified the land acquisition process of a builder before

The Ministry of Railways has proposed to decriminalise begging on trains or railway premises and compound the offence of smoking by levying spot fine and dropping all charges/action against the person involved. The Railway Board has called for comments/suggestions on the proposed amendments to the Act. A couple of years ago, the Delhi High Court,

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In the latest judgment of the Bombay High Court, Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and the State Government  was directed to pay Rs 5 lakh each to former head of Post Graduate Department of English at Nagpur University Professor Shoma Sen towards payment of gratuity which was withheld after Sen’s arrest in the Bhima Koregaon violence

A Divisional Bench comprising of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava held while hearing a PIL seeking a direction upon the State Government to shift the COVID-19 Centre/Hospital situated in the vicinity of a residential colony in Prayagraj, to some other place. “In terms of the various guidelines issued by the Government, COVID