Neha Chaudhary and Jyotiraj Singh Bhadauria In the revolutionary judgement of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 377 of Indian Penal Code [hereinafter ‘IPC’], a colonial law concretizing the rudimentary outlook Read more
Anadi Tewari Last year, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment submitted in the Rajya Sabha that up to 288 persons had died in the country cleaning its sewers in the three years preceding August 2020. Experts say this number Read more
Anadi Tewari A Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking direction to ensure legal immunity against civil or criminal prosecution of medical practitioners including final year medical students exclusively during the pandemic time. Read more
Anadi Tewari A Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Supreme Court seeking directions from the top Court to the concerned respondent authorities to grant ex-gratia compensation of Rs. 4,00,000/- to those families whose members have died due to Read more
Anadi Tewari A Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking directions of the Court to Central and State Governments to grant appropriate compensation to the families of COVID-19 patients, who died due to lack of Read more
Anadi Tewari Taking note of a large number of deaths and media reports of the mismanagement of COVID-19 infected bodies, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday (14 May) has issued certain advisories to the Centre and State Governments Read more
Anadi Tewari A Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Supreme Court seeking judicial intervention and directions for setting up a Special Investigating Agency (SIT) to supervise the probe into around 100 dead bodies found floating in the river Read more
Anadi Tewari Due to rising COVID-19 cases in the state of Goa, a Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Bombay High Court at Goa seeking availability of a common platform for information on bed availability, ICUs and Oxygen Read more
Anadi Tewari In a strongly formulated order concerning the death of COVID-19 patients due to non-supply of oxygen to hospitals, the Allahabad High Court has observed that the authorities entrusted with the responsibility of procurement and supply of medical oxygen Read more
Anadi Tewari A Public Interest Litigation has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking directions to stop the IPL (Indian Premier League) matches with immediate effect and to further direct an enquiry as to why the IPL is being Read more