#SupremeCourt to shortly deliver judgement in a plea filed by NGO Lok Prahari, seeking appointment of Additional Judges to High Courts under Article 224A of the Indian Constitution to reduce pendency of cases
CJI SA Bobde: Its a 64 paragraph judgment, We have held exactly what we discussed. Primarily we have held the process as per constitutional provision will resorted to but not in place of regular appointments. We have dealt with allowance and perks from the Consolidated Fund India
CJI: Its a case for continuing matter and so that fine-tuning can be done later on
We are listing after 4 months after law ministry files a progress report so that High courts do their job and Supreme Court knows whats happening
Senior Adv Vikas Singh: Anything about regular appointments?
That is not the subject matter. We have held that it will not be instead of regular appointments
CJI SA Bobde led bench clarifies that the verdict in relation to the regular appointments will not be read out in open court since it needs further concurrence with his brother judges. (Matter pertaining to the timeline taken to process recommendations)
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Max Patparganj has currently only 3 hrs of oxygen and if the oxygen run outs the life of 400 patients out of which 262 are covid patients is under threat
Nagpur Bench of #BombayHighCourt to continue hearing suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on issues pertaining to #COVID management in #Nagpur city.
Bench of Justices SB Shukre and SM Modak had on Monday issued directions to State to release 10000 vials of #REMDESIVIR to #COVID hospitals in the district of #Nagpur
Advocate Tushar Mandlekar submits that he has filed a civil application for intervention. The intervenor had been admitted in hospital after 2-3 days of hunting for bed.
Justice Shukre: Mandlekar, in a PIL we are not inclined to hear individual pleas.
Delhi High Court will shortly hear a petition concerning #COVID19 situation in the national capital.
Listing it for post-lunch session, Court sought info from Centre on the issue of shortage of oxygen.
"Industries can wait. Human lives once lost are lost", Court said.
A Division Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli asked the Central Government to state which are the industries to whom supply of oxygen cannot be curtailed.
Justice Rekha Palli stated that she was informed that due shortage of oxygen, doctors in Ganga Ram hospital were keeping oxygen level at 82 for patients.
CJ Sanjib Banerjee: This is not for you and me, it is for your children ... air they will not be able to breathe, the water they will not be able to touch...
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Advocate V Ragavachari: There was a time when the water, we used to drink from wells ... Cooum was a river, now is a drain going around the city
CJ: We will take up Cooum in due course ... I am waiting for some litigation where I can put my personal knowledge into use
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CJ adds that on evening walks, on "can’t stand sometimes because of the stench" from the Cooum river.
CJ: We have a high wall, but the stench just wafts through...
Ragavachari: We used to see fishes there. Now it is full of sludge