Former Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Justice Govind Mathur, who retired on 13 April, has defended judicial interventions amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
HC bench made the observation while taking into account death of a man in a Meerut hospital where doctors failed to identify him and the body was disposed of as unidentified.
A two-judge bench issued the direction while hearing a petition that claimed the state government's focus was only on dealing with Covid in major cities.
The petitioners claim their father was allotted 28-acre land in Dhannipur village by the Nazul Department for 5 years which he continued to possess beyond that period.
Petitioners Asha Devi and Suraj Kumar had moved the court contending that they both are adults 'living as husband and wife', and so no one should interfere in their lives.
Ayodhya residents Haji Mahboob and Haji Sayyad Akhlaq Ahmad filed the petition in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on behalf of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
The primary contention raised in the PIL was that the anti-conversion law impinges upon the fundamental right to choice and the right to change of faith.
Reports on Allahabad High Court’s judgment in Salamat Ansari-Priyanka Kharwar case wrongly suggests a constitutional death-knell against UP’s 'love jihad' ordinance.
Draft ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion Bill 2020’ has been formulated by UP home department and forwarded to law department. The law is likely to be presented before UP cabinet soon.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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