Justice Ashok Bhushan led bench to shortly hear an urgent application moved seeking clarification on the aspect of facilities for isolation rooms at CLAT exam centres to enable the applicant, who is infected with #COVID19, to write the exam.
The matter was item 4. But it is being taken up first. #CLAT2020
Bench assembles.
Advocate Garima Prashad for applicants: we want the COVID19 infected students be allowed to appear in isolation rooms
SC: we are not giving general orders. we are only permitting your client to appear in isolation room. take a print out of the order
Adv Sumit Chander: There are many students. Not only one.
SC: We are not permitting others. were are only permitting the applicant. this cannot be done at the last moment. as a special bench we are passing the order otherwise this issue is not before the court
SC: Time is short. we have to dictate the order, it needs to be uploaded. (tells Garima Prashad): take a print of the order and appear in the #CLAT exam
Adv Parameshwar for Consortium states isolation room at every exam centre
SC permits the applicant to appear for CLAT exam at an isolation centre. the applicant to provide a copy of the SC order to the exam authorities.
This order is only for the applicant and not a blanket forder for other #COVID19 infected students
Supreme Court allows COVID-19 positive CLAT aspirant to take exam at isolation centre today, order to apply only to applicant #COVIDー19#CLAT2020#SupremeCourtOfIndia
Delhi High Court to hear the defamation suit filed by Asian News International (ANI) against YouTuber Mohak Mangal over a video accusing ANI of extortion and blackmail after copyright strikes.
Comedian Kunal Kamra and AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair are also added as defendants for sharing the video on their X handles.
ANI is seeking takedown of the video, no further trademark infringement and damages of Rs. 2 crores, 10 lakhs.
Ceremonial bench proceedings underway to mark the last working day of Justice Abhay S Oka
AG R Venkataramani: All of us got equal treatment in your court. I have cherished the questioning moments. By working so tirelessly you have set bad standards for your law clerks as some even forgot to go home..
SG Tushar Mehta: Despite such an irreparable loss you treated duty as a judge first. You could have addressed virtually also. This shows duty. Please spare more time for family. You have often been much more prepared than lawyers. Your lordships services are required and please do not close any door
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SG: you may not believe in God, but i believe, May God be always on your side. Me and ASG Raju were almost always at the wrong side of the judgment ..but our love and respect for you was never affected. We respect your for who you are.
Delhi High Court to shortly hear a defamation suit filed by Newslaundry Executive Editor Manisha Pande and eight other women journalists against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for referring to them as ‘prostitutes’ and their workplace as a ‘brothel.’
Advocate Bani Dixit appears for Newslaundry journalists. She says "Plaintiffs are journalists from all walks of life. These are defamatory articles outside the bounds of criticism. These are all working women."
Court: What does the defendant do ?
Dixit: The kind of things he has said I cannot read it out also.
Supreme Court to shortly hear a petition challenging the arrest of Ali Khan Mahmudabad, an associate professor at Ashoka University, Sonipat, over certain remarks on Operation Sindoor
Supreme Court bench led by CJI B.R. Gavai would hear the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 on May 20, for the limited purpose of interim relief
#SupremeCourt #WaqfAct
The bench will consider whether interim relief of stay is required on three issues - waqf by user, nomination of non-Muslims to the Wakf Council and State Waqf Boards and identification of government land under waqf #WaqfAct
The Central government had earlier told the Supreme Court that certain key provisions of the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, including the formation of the Central Waqf Council and Waqf Boards and provisions on de-notifying properties already declared or registered as waqf, will not be acted upon for the time being.