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The Aurangabad high court held that it was the Centre’s liability to replace faulty ventilators with new and functional ventilators as repaired ventilators might lead to loss of lives.

One of the accused in the Moti Nagar Drug Smuggling case registered at PS Crime Branch – Gulbabu, applied for regular Bail under Sections 21/29 of the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter NDPS Act).

Here, in Disqualification Case no 14, 2019, the current writ petition was submitted in the challenge of the Speaker’s Orders on 18.06.2020 which eliminated the writ petitioner from the membership of the Manipur Legislative Assembly regarding Para 2 (1) (a) of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India read with Article 191 (2) of the Constitution of India.

The candidates, who were petitioners nos. 1 to 3 in the writ appeal for example W.P.(C) No. 456 of 2013 recorded by the contrary party Purna Chandra Chand, have looked for review petition of the request dated 24.04.2013 passed by a learned Division Bench of this Court while discarding the writ appeal.

Here, the case is about whether The Army Public School is an unaided private institution that is controllable to the Court‘s writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India?

This writ petition is filed to declare the impugned order of stop production passed by the Andhra Pradesh State Pollution Control Board vide Order as illegal and arbitrary. Heard Sri Y Srinivasa Murthy, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri N Harinath, learned Assistant Solicitor General appearing for the 1st respondent and Sri V.Surender Reddy, learned counsel appearing for respondents 2 to 5 and with their consent; this writ petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. The case was heard and decided by Hon’ble Justice Kongara Vijaya Lakshmi and Hon’ble Sri Justice D. Ramesh. 

This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed therewith, the High Court may be pleased to issue a writ order or direction, one more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in interfering and disturbing the activities and trade of the Petitioner in practising Ayurvedic Medicine and in coercing/ forcing/ harassing the Petitioner herein to disclose the stipulated concoction (medical combination) of the ayurvedic/ naturopathic medicine being prepared by the Petitioner to deal with Covid-19, thereby denying the Fundamental Rights guaranteed to the Petitioner as being illegal, arbitrary and in violation of Article 19(1)(d) and (g), 21. And 301 of the Constitution of India, and consequently direct the Respondents not to interfere with the activities and trade of the Petitioner and also consequently direct the Respondents to consider granting adequate protection to the Petitioner to continue his Pro-bono services to the public.

The Honourable Kerala High on Wednesday i.e., on the 2nd day of June 2021, gave a 15-day deadline to consider the inclusion of passport number and the full name of the vaccine as the countries look up to it as an essential. This instruction to the central government came out in the case Rahim Pattarkadavan v. Union of India, delivered by the 2-judge bench comprising Honourable Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque and Honourable Justice Kauser Edappagath. 

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.