#MadrasHighCourt disposes of DMK’s petition seeking various measures to ensure the purity of elections in TN.
Election Commission informed Court:
- CCTV, webcasting, to be monitored by election officials, to cover close to 11,000 critical & vulnerable polling booths
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- About 44,000 polling booths would be under CCTV surveillance totally
- EVMs manufactured between 2017-19 to be used; not older machines
- Pre-poll guarding of the EVMs would be conducted in accordance with Election Manual
- EVMs cannot be tampered with by any wi-fi or radio device, electronic supply inside strong rooms would be cut off to ensure no short circuit
- Random counting of votes as per SC’s directions would not take away the power of RO to count paper trail on candidate’s request
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"... hoped that this day next week will pass as peacefully, uneventfully as today seems to be... EC should be alert, proactive, ensure that 2nd surge of pandemic is not accelerated by activities on election day" #MadrasHighCourt adds (4/4).
Bench led by Chief Justice Dipankar Datta from #BombayHighCourt to hear the plea filed by former #MumbaiPolice commissioner #ParamBirSingh seeking CBI probe into the allegations made by him against the State Home Minister #AnilDeshmukh today.
Kerala High Court will continue hearing petition filed by ED Deputy Director, P Radhakrishnan challenging FIR registered by Kerala Police against unnamed ED officials in connection with questioning of Gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh
Hearing commences.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta starts his arguments.
This is not a matter where we can argue on elementary principles that cognizable offence is made out, so fir can be registered. That is second year LLb argument.
This is a case where a central investigating agency is sought to be investigated: Tushar Mehta
The Government Resolution appointing the single-member high level committee was issued today by the General Administration Dept. Of #MaharashtraGovernment.
In the meeting held today for discussing possibility of switching to #hybrid format of hearing matter, the #BombayHighCourt has deferred the decision till April 5, 2021.
The Court in conjunction with the #BMC has decided to hold a #CovidVaccine drive for the High Court judges at the Principal Bench and their spouses (above the age of 45) from April 2 to 4, 2021.
A similar #CovidVaccines drive will also be held for the lawyers, their spouses and their office staff ALL ABOVE THE AGE OF 45 years in the same weekend viz. from April 2 to 4, 2021.
Special NIA Court extends custody of two co-accused Naresh Gor and Vinayak Shinde till April 7, 2020 in the #MansukhHiren death case linked to the explosive loaded SUV found outside #antilla.
Justice Shinde: You are a doctorate of law. Please show us some original pleading in your petition. You have only reproduced conversations between the former Commissioner and Home Minster. You are only extracting paragraphs after paragraphs.