Justice Chandrachud dictating order- There is a challenge in the petition to the notification issued by the Director General of Health Services.
The notice takes effect from 2021-2022.
Order: The submissions necessitate an urgent order over the eligibility criteria for the reservation. The formulation would take some time.
The reservation of OBC is upheld.
We accept the recommendation of the Pandey Commission.
Order- The counselling shall be conducted as under the notification.
Delhi High Court is hearing a plea by Sathish Babu Sana, linked to meat exporter Moin Qureshi's corruption and illegal gratification case. Sana was granted interim protection in the case previously by the Court.
Sana challenges a Look Out Circular issued against him.
Sana: I'm a person who has gone abroad 19 times and returned to the country since registration of the case. I've always presented myself whenever called for investigation.
Founder and Editor of The New Indian has moved the Delhi High Court against @Twitter for blocking access to her handle @AartiTikoo allegedly "for calling out the actions of Kashmiri Islamists on Twitter for threatening her cousin."
The contents of her tweet according to her plea, were: "My brother @TikooSahil who lives in Srinagar, being openly threatened by jihadi terrorists sitting in Kashmir-India, their handlers in Pakistan, UK, US. Is anyone watching?"
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"Are we sitting ducks waiting to be shot dead by Islamists or will you crackdown on them? @HMOIndia"
Maninder Singh, Sr.ADV: I have 2 submissions. It is not merely a law and order problem. It is squarely falling in the Special Protection Group Act #PMOIndia . Section 14 says “assistance to the group shall be the duty of every ministry of central or State Government”
Singh: This fell for your lordships consideration with regard to a former PM who was under trial for corruption and the place of the trial had to be shifted. Even if the PM wants to wave the protection, he cannot do that. He does not have the right #PMOIndia
The NGT South Zone, Chennai will shortly hear the matter pertaining to felling of trees in in #auroville for creating a crown road.
ASG Shankarnarayanan to commence the arguments.
ASG: May I take the lordships through the first petition which he filed and the application with which he approached of the tribunal. The synopsis gives a birds eye view of how he has come before the tribunal and the sections of the NGT act invoked #auroville
ASG: He has submitted that no feasibility or impact assessment study has been conducted. He knows what we intend to do is construction of road however according it is contrary to the principles of #auroville