Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice UU Lalit to shortly hear the plea filed against the Bombay HC order which dismissed the petition seeking for interim bail on medical grounds of lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj #NIA #SupremeCourt #SudhaBhardwaj
Bharadwaj’s counsel Ragini Ahuja had earlier told the Bombay HC that the activist had been in jail for over two years.
Ahuja had said Bharadwaj had comorbidities that put her at a higher risk of contracting the virus. #COVID19
NIA counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh, argued against giving bail to Bharadwaj saying that if her condition required hospital care, the state would provide for it.
Singh had further informed HC that 81-year-old co-accused, Varavara Rao, who was admitted to a state-run facility and then a shifted to the private hospital - on intervention of the National Human Right's Commission - for treatment of COVID-19 and other ailments in July.
Hearing begins.
Senior Adv Vrinda Grover for petitioner : I am in custody since 2 years as an undertrial. charges are not proved. i am only seeking interim bail
Justice Lalit: please check the medical report
Grover: Sudha Bharadwaj is suffering from diabetes and comorbidities
Justice Lalit: she is 58 and is not severely diabetic
Grover: she has developed two diseases in custody. one is a heart disease which is a ticking time bomb. it needs a cardio profile, lipid profile.
Grover: Let me get the check up done. She has also developed arthritis. She has never abused any court order.
Justice Lalit: What is the case
Grover: there is a criminal conspiracy which is set to be hatched by her. she was practicing in bilaspur HC. It is nobodys case that any material is recovered from her but from someone else's phone.
Justice Lalit: Why don't you file a fresh bail plea?
Grover: there is one pending in HC
Justice Lalit: So the application on merits is pending.
Her sugar is 114 and not so serious
Grover: our contention is the heart disease
Justice Lalit: but that is not a part of this plea
Grover: She is suffering osteo arthritis and cardiac issues and this she has developed while in custody. (reads the medical report).
Justice Lalit: the HC order says the medication is in order
Senior Adv Grover: I only seek your indulgence to get checked. These tests cannot happen in the jail hospital
Justice Ajay Rastogi: She was examined on August 20 by jail authorities
Grover reads the medication being given to her by the jail hospital
Justice Rastogi: are you saying this report is false? You have a good case on merits. why don't you file a regular bail application
Justice Lalit: Either you withdraw it or we will dismiss it
Justice Lalit: the condition deserves a deeper look and a regular bail plea can be filed.
Senior Advocate Pramila Nesargi makes submissions for petitioner: Written statement has been filed. The facts are admitted. The contentions raised under ... are not there in the written statement.
#KarnatakaHighCourt #Siddaramaiah
Nesargi: Election of all 135 persons elected to Karnataka Assembly should be set aside.. I want the entire election of Karnataka to be set aside. That is the object with which election petition has been filed.
Is Arvind Kejriwal deliberately eating mangoes and sweets to spike sugar level and create ground for bail?
Delhi court to examine Tihar Jail report shortly after ED's allegations.
Hearing to start at 2PM.
#ArvindKejriwal @AamAadmiParty @ArvindKejriwal
Yesterday, ED's Special Counsel Zoheb Hossain had informed the Rouse Avenue Court that the details came to be known after the agency wrote to Tihar jail and sought information about Kejriwal's diet and the medicines being taken by him.
Kejriwal's lawyers have refuted ED's allegations and said that these are merely allegations for the media.
They have alleged that ED does not want Kejriwal to even have home cooked food which has been allowed by the Court.
#SupremeCourt to hear plea seeking directions for the counting of all VVPAT slips. The plea seeks the court's direction to the Election Commission and the Centre to ensure that voters are able to verify through VVPATs that their vote has been "counted as recorded" #EVM
Adv Nizamuddin Pasha makes submissions: voter secrecy is not compromised at any stage..also the my right to secrecy cannot..
I hope you understand what you are arguing and the practical results of it
Pasha: milord..
SC: if you still argue then fine..the last slip will always be at the bottom.. do not take more time..
Pasha: it is the rights context in which this debate lies..
SC: you have applied the doctrine of proportionality
Pasha: yes fundamental right to know for whom vote is casted, right to free and fair election etc.. these are all rights of voters and it does not affect somebody else
SC: Tell us which are the four prongs of doctrine of proportionality
Pasha: the doctrine comes when there are two conflicting rights.. i am a stage anterior to this..
SC: all fundamental rights can be curtailed on the basis of certain exceptions..
Adv Prashant Bhushan:in the VVPAT machine the light remains on for 7 seconds, if that light can be on always so that voter can see the slip cutting and falling or other slip being cut etc also.. that can be done if the glass cannot be changed.