The Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the state government's newly-launched "Priyadarshini Scheme, which provides free travel to all women and transgender persons in ordinary KSRTC buses.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Kerala High Court challenging the state government's 'Priyadarshini' free bus travel scheme for women and transgender persons on KSRTC ordinary services.
A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta sought the response of the Union government and listed the matter for hearing after four weeks.
The division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen directed the petitioner to place before the court logical evidence to establish the admissibility of the PIL.
Raising concerns of large-scale and irreversible disenfranchisement, Banerjee contended that the ongoing SIR poses a serious threat to the voting rights of lakhs of eligible electors and would severely undermine the level playing field among political parties ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Central Government in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking stringent regulation—or an outright ban—of both online and offline betting and gambling applications.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Central government on a public interest plea (PIL) seeking stringent regulation – or outright prohibition – of online and offline betting and gambling apps.
The Supreme Court’s move on April 28, to examine obscenity regulations for OTT platforms and social media (in a PIL filed by Uday Mahurkar and others) is both urgent and necessary.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Central government, Over The Top (OTT) – Netflix, Amazon Prime, Alt Balaji, Ullu, ALTT, X (formerly Twitter), Meta Inc, Google, Mubi, Apple, and the social media platforms on a public interest plea (PIL) seeking to regulate and prohibit the streaming of obscene contents.
The petitioner – one Parul Khera – said the provisions in 1995 Waqf Act grant special status to Waqf properties while the same is denied to the Trust, Mutts, Akharas and societies and confer unguided and unchecked powers to Waqf Boards to register any property as Waqf property.
