June 4, 2021 Archives

The Madhya Pradesh High Court had declared the strike by Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) as illegal and directed the doctors to resume their duties immediately.

On 24.05.2021, the Karnataka High Court had heard the plea of a 58 years-old BSF officer regarding his transfer order two years before his retirement via video-conferencing. 

The Petitioner, who was a student of Bal Bharti Public School, filed this petition seeking general directions relating to the CBSE scheme for re-evaluation of papers and orders relating to a re-evaluation of her papers.

In this case, a petition was filed by the Action Committee Unaided Recognized Private Schools, a registered association to seek quashing of the orders passed by the Directorate of Education dated 18th April and 28th August 2020, affirming that the same prevented private unaided recognized schools from collecting a part of fees i.e., Annual charges and development fees beyond the lockdown period and deferring it till physical openings of the school. Responding to this, the Court quashed the two orders as the Respondent had no power to indefinitely postpone the collection of Annual Charges and Development fees. And held that the impugned acts were prejudicial to the said Schools and would cause an unreasonable restriction in their functioning.

In this case, a PIL was filed by the Petitioner, an advocate by profession, challenging the condition imposed by the Respondents private medical institutions that the students seeking admission to MBBS Course to submit bank guarantee against the annual fees for the next 3½ years of course duration in addition to the deposit of annual fee for the first year of the course, at the time of admission. Responding to this, the Bench of Justices Sangeet Lodha and Rameshwar Vyas declared the said condition as illegal and thereby restrained all Government and private institutions from recovering any amount as advance fee in addition to the fee for one year from any student admitted to the course.