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30 Sep

Delhi High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of security measures to be implemented in courts in the wake of the Rohini Court firing incident.

#DelhiHighCourt #RohiniCourtFiring

Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh begins hearing matter

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CJ Patel: I am issuing notice today. I want suggestions from all respondents in short bullet points. For checking at courts, everybody is in a hurry, so how do we work around that?

#DelhiHighCourt #RohiniCourtFiring

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30 Sep

CJI NV Ramana led 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court to hear the curative petition against its 3-judge verdict of 2019 which upheld Adani Power's termination of the Power Purchase Agreement with Gujarat Urja Vikas Ltd(GUVL) #SupremeCourt

On Sept 17, #SupremeCourt issued notice in GUVL's curative petition against the 2019 verdict favoring #Adani Power

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Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi: Apologies My Lord we didn't see the bench had assembled

Sr Adv Aryama Sundaram states he appears for petitioners

Sr Adv Harish Salve appear for respondents

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30 Sep

#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea by Attorney General K K Venugopal against the Bombay HC judgement which held that sexual assault offences under the #POCSO would not be attracted if there was no direct 'skin to skin' contact between the accused and the child #SkinToSkin

Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra argues.

#SupremeCourt #POCSOAct

Sr. Adv. Luthra takes the #SupremeCourt through relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, reads out Section 349:

A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes...

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30 Sep

#SupremeCourt to shortly hear plea by a Noida resident against inconvenience caused to commuters between Noida and Delhi due to blockage of roads by protesters against Farm Laws #FarmersProtest

Justice SK Kaul: Mr Nataraj (ASG) what are you doing ?

ASG: We convened a meeting.

SC: we laid down a law and how to implement the law is your business. The court has no means to implement it

SG: It is the duty of executive to implement it

SC: if we encroached then you will say we trespassed into executive domain. This has ramifications.. there are grievances which can be addressed. But this cannot be a perpetual problem.

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29 Sep

#SupremeCourt to continue hearing plea by Attorney General KK Venugopal against the Bombay High Court decision stating that 'skin to skin' contact was necessary for offence of 'sexual assault' under POCSO Act.

#POCSOAct

Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra: Out of the four Petitions, before the Court, I appear for the Legal Services Authority. I have also brought on record the trial court records.

#POCSOAct #SupremeCourt

Attorney General KK Venugopal: According to me, the Court has misinterpreted Section 7 of the #POCSOAct.

Question arises that if the child is wearing a blouse, and you press the breast, will it prevent an offence under Section 8?

#POCSOAct #SupremeCourt

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29 Sep

#SupremeCourt resumes hearing petitions seeking the regulation of firecrackers and ban on the manufacture of firecrackers containing harmful chemicals such as barium nitrate #firecrackers

Justice MR Shah peruses the earlier orders passed in the case.

Justice Shah: we have recieved the prelimiary enquiry by CBI , in many items Barium has been found. Why should not your licenses be cancelled ? (to Hindustan firecrackers, etc)

Sr Adv Kiran Suri : we don't know what is there in the report

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