Petition

Yoga guru and entrepreneur Baba Ramdev has approached the Supreme Court with a plea for protection from multiple criminal FIRs filed against him in different states in relation to his controversial comments on the effectiveness of evidence-based medicines in treating Covid-19. The bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh has issued notices to the central government and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in response to Ramdev's request… read-more

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved the Supreme Court (SC) challenging the bail of Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Fodder Scam Case. On August 18, the central agency filed a petition, which is expected to be listed soon before the SC Bench. Notably, earlier, the Jharkhand High Court granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former Chief Minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Fodder Scam.

The Supreme Court ordered to conduct of day-to-day hearings of all the PILs, and pleas related to Article 370. In a major update, on July 11, the Apex Court bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud asked to begin everyday hearing into the Abolition of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, from August 2. Furthermore, heard by A five-judge constitution bench asked the Central to file all the documents by July 27.

A UPSC aspirant had cleared the prelims but was unsuccessful in the mains, and filed a petition in the Delhi HC, seeking to disclose the UPSC Answer Sheet. However, on June 14, the court ruled that the answer sheets could be disclosed only if it is in the public interest, which the petitioner failed. The bench also cited previous judgments and emphasised that public interest must be established for such disclosure.

In a decision towards social change, the Rajasthan High Court said that every person has the right to fully enjoy all human rights. A single bench of justice Anoop Kumar Dhand ordered the authorities to consider modifying the service record of a person who was assigned the female gender at birth. Notably,  a person who had been assigned female at birth and later underwent gender reassignment surgery (GRS) and changed.