HC allows Delhi govt. to set up panel on oxygen scarcity deaths 

  • A Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh noted the Delhi government’s submission that the panel will not attribute any fault to any hospital and any compensation will be paid by the government alone.

  • The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed the city government to constitute a high power committee to probe the deaths allegedly caused by medical oxygen shortage during the second wave of COVID19 pandemic.

  • The court was informed that compensation of up to ₹5 lakh would be decided by the panel on the basis of an objective criteria.

Honour confidentiality , HC tell I-T Department 

  • The Delhi High Court on Tuesday  asked the Income Tax Department to honour its assurance given to the court to maintain confidentiality of the document seized during the survey operation at News laundry.

  • HC Bench gave the direction after ED'S counsel said the material will be used only in accordance with law.

  • The agency's counsel said ,The material seized is in safe custody of the Income Tax Department .It shall not be leaked.

Delhi HC asks Centre to respond to plea by the Delhi Waqf Board

  • The HC asked the centre to respond to a plea by Delhi Waqf Board seeking the preservation and protection of its heritage properties that were impacted by central vista redevelopment project.

  • The Wakf Board sought for the six of its properties in areas within development work as ongoing senior, ADV. Sanjoy Ghose representing the Waqf Board.

  • The British Crown transferred a few of these properties to predecessors of the petitioner by way of registered agreements.

Delhi High Court denies interim relief to TMC MP , wife  

  • HC on Tuesday declined to grant any interim relief to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife , who had sought quashing summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate in money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in west bengal.

Court rejects bail pleas of four Bhima accused 

  • The Special National Investigation Agency court on Tuesday rejected the medical bail applications filed by senior citizens Shoma Sen, Anand Tettumble , Gautam Navlakha and Vernon Gonsalves.

  • Four are among those accused in the Bhima are said to be suffering from several co- morbidities.

  • Spl. Judge D.E kothaliar rejected the pleas by relying on recommendations from the high - powered committee set up to decongest prisons owing to COVID - 19.

SC reserves order on plea by the sister of Gauri Lankesh

  • The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved for judgment a petition filed by the sister of slain journalist Gauri Lankesh against the dropping of organised crime charges against a man accused of harbouring her alleged killers.

  • Kavitha Lankesh had moved the court challenging a Karnataka High Court decision to drop charges under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA) of 2000 against accused Mohan Nayak, who is accused of harbouring Gauri’s killers.

  • The High Court had quashed KCOCA charges against Nayak on the ground that he had no prior charge sheets under the KCOCA to prove that he was part of the “continuing unlawful activities” of the crime syndicate allegedly behind Gauri’s murder.

T.N. HC upholds ban on crash guards, bull bars

  • The Bench also said the notification pointed out that fitment of crash guards or bull-bars was in violation of Section 52 of the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988,  which prohibits alterations at variance with specifications mentioned in the registration certificate of the vehicle concerned.

  • The court passed the orders while disposing of two public interest litigation petitions which insisted on effective implementation of the 2017 notification.

  • The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld a notification issued by the Central government in December 2017, asking all State governments and Union Territories to prohibit the use of crash guards and bull bars in motor vehicles.

Trudeau’s party secures victory in Canada

  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party secured victory in the parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted in a vote that focused on the coronavirus pandemic but that many Canadians saw as unnecessary.

  • The Liberal Party was leading or elected in 158 seats — one more than they won in 2019, and 12 short of the 170 needed for a majority in the House of Commons.

  • The Conservatives were leading or elected in 119 seats, two less than they won in 2019. The leftist New Democrats were leading or elected in 25, while the Bloc Québécois were leading or elected in 34 and the Greens were down to two.


U.S. not seeking a new Cold War: Biden

  • Delivering his first address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), U.S. President Joe Biden said America was not seeking a “new Cold War” in a reference to the tensions between the U.S. and China. 

  • Mr. Biden said America was closing a chapter on “relentless war”, after its exit from Afghanistan and that it was opening a chapter on diplomacy, development and renewing democracy.

Russia behind Litvinenko murder, rights court rules

  • The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday backed the conclusion of a British inquiry that Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who died in London in 2006 after drinking tea laced with a radioactive material.

  • The Court found in particular that there was a strong prima facie case that, in poisoning Litvinenko, Mr. Lugovoi and Mr. Kovtun had been acting as agents of the Russian State.

Extracted & Compiled by- Mr. Vishal Vats, Advocate- Delhi High Court
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