CJI SA Bobde led bench begins hearing the Suo Motu petition concerning the unprecedented financial crisis being faced by lawyers all across the country due to COVID19 induced lockdown.
CJI: All Bar Councils are saying that Centre should prepare a contingency fund for lawyers
Senior Adv Ajit Kumar: I appear for all HC bar associations. I have filed an affidavit
CJI: You have not filed a reply
Kumar: We are relying on BCI's affidavit, the only one
Senior Adv Kumar reads the provision in law which authorizes Centre to prepare an emergency fund for lawyers also known as a contingency fund to meet unforeseen circumstances.
Kumar: The bar council will have to ensure that if an interest free loan is provided then it has to be repaid. A monthly installment should be capped at under 10,000
CJI: we find the response of all these associations inadequate. You are connected to society to rich business houses. Its a difficult situation and what we say is only for COVID19. We have asked the Centre but should not be the major part of the funding be from bar associations?
Kumar: HC bar associations are different. SC bar is more capable. I have just cited Section 4 which states how certain unforeseen circumstances may be dealt with.
CJI: We feel primary responsibility is of the association of advocates. Centre has to spend on a lot of people.
Kumar: from last seven months they are doing all they can.
CJI: We had issued a notice. But we are saying that create a fund. Why are you not agreeing to create a fund
Kumar: in 8 months, the funds have exhausted
CJI: Why does every HC not have a fund?
CJI to Adv Shekhar Naphade: important thing is to identify lawyers who are entitled to such hep. the really deserving ones may not get the help due to the power structure and here most powerful get most. the unfortunate ones don't get it. we need your help to identify them
CJI: If an advocate has been making certain amount of income and due to pandemic it has become zero, then I can understand>? but a lawyer who made no money, can this help become a source of income? the pandemic cannot become a boon for them. we have to be careful
CJI: we need to find the eligibility of the deserving one for these loans.
SC adjourns case by two weeks. HC bar associations to reply to the query posed by the top court
Delhi High Court castigates Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government and AAP led MCD for its failure to provide textbooks to over 2 lakh students.
Court says Delhi govt is only interested in appropriation of power and by not resigning, despite his arrest, Arvind Kejriwal has put personal interest over the national interest.
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A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora made these scathing remarks while dealing with a PIL raising the issue that the students studying in MCD schools have not received textbooks and are studying in tin sheds because of the logjam in the civic body.
ACJ Manmohan also commented on the conduct of Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj and said that he had turned a blind eye to the plight of students and is shedding crocodile tears.
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.
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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.
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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.