Legal

The Madras high court, on April 7, upheld the 7.5% reservation provided by the Tamil Nadu government for students from government schools in admission to medical courses. ''It was to help deserving students from the underprivileged and marginalised sections of the society get admission to medical colleges,'' stated the state government. Notably, Only 31% of the seats in medical colleges were earlier reserved for general category students.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana announced to commence court hearings 'physically' from April 4. The decision was taken amid the declining cases of COVID-19 in India. The CJI's announcement came before the commencement of proceedings started today, virtually.  NV Ramana said, "Monday and Friday we will provide links (for virtual hearing) if advocates want."  Notably, amid pandemic fourth wave, the Top Court was conducting hearings… read-more

A special court on March 30, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, will hear a plea by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Aryan Khan's case. In addition, the NCB is seeking an additional 90-day time from the special court to file a charge sheet in the case. Notably, Aryan Khan, son of actor Shahrukh Khan, is one of the prime accused among the 20, in the case.
 

Assam government is set to move the Supreme Court (SC) seeking a directive to the Centre for granting Aadhaar cards to those left in NRC. In addition, over 27 lakh residents in the state whose biometrics were collected to update the NRC, of which 1.9 million were left out . ''Those from indigenous communities, have been left out of government schemes like free rice or housing," said minister Pijush Hazarika.

Advocate Vineet Jindal has appealed to re-open all cases related to the 'Genocide' of Kashmiri Pandits during the 1990s. In addition, he asked to appoint a special investigation team (SIT) to reinvestigate incidents, in a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind. "If matters pertaining to anti-Sikh riots, can be reopened and reinvestigated then even the cases of the Kashmiri pandits can also be reopened and reinvestigated", stated the advocate.… read-more