Delhi Court to hear bail plea of AAP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case connected to the national capital's excise policy of 2021-22.
Sr Adv CD Vaidyanathan (for Respondents) : Please allow me to file a reply. Can there be a permanent Prohibition? There can be ban during a health emergency but no total Prohibition.
Sr Adv Abhishek Singhvi: Previous State notification expired years ago.
Sr Adv Kapil Sibal for govt: If it is injurious to public can the year on year argument be used? Can cancer depend on it?
Bench: Why don't you ban it permanently?
Sibal: That's for the Centre.
Bench: What you can't do directly? Can you do it indirectly?
'Commander in Thief' - Bombay High Court to shortly hear Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking quashing of an FIR in Mumbai for his alleged defamatory remarks against PM Narendra Modi
Sr Adv AM Singhvi: A PIL by a political leader will get transferred to CBI. Point two, the writ is filed on 27th and the order is passed on 28th. Third, in counter before HC I've denied the allegations.
Singhvi: Your lordships have not given them a chance! How can the probe be transferred? What is the point of jurisdictional bar if CBI can enter your area without consent?
'MEDIEVIAL CONSERVATIVE MINDSET on CONCEPT of FAMILY'
#BombayHighCourt sets aside order disallowing a divorcee from adopting sister’s child on the ground that she was a SINGLE WORKING WOMAN and wouldn’t be able to give personal attention to the #child.
“Generally, a single parent is bound to be a working person, maybe with some rare exceptions. Thus, by no stretch of the imagination, a single parent can be held to be ineligible to be an adoptive parent on the ground that he/she is a working person.” - #BombayHighCourt
The comparison done between the biological mother being a housewife and the prospective adoptive mother (single parent) being a working lady reflects a mindset of the medieval conservative concepts of a family...
[Plea alleging attacks against Christians in India in #SupremeCourt]
SG Mehta: Please see the compliance. The petitioner claimed that there are some 500 incidents where Christians were attacked. We sent everything to State government.
SG Mehta: We collated all information we got. First let's see Bihar. The total number which Petitioner gave are internal fights between neighbours one of which happens to be Christian - this they have resolved.
SG Mehta: Wherever actual offence was committed, that has been noted. The figure given by them, which obviously persuaded your lordships, was not correct.