CM Kejriwal to be produced today in Delhi court
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is behind bars in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam, will be produced on Wednesday before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is behind bars in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam, will be produced on Wednesday before Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.
Despite the Supreme Court directive to the agitating junior doctors to resume work by 5 pm on Tuesday, the protestors said that they would continue their month-long cease-work in state-run medical colleges till their charter of five demands is met by the government.
Stating that they are seized of a part-heard matter, the Chief Justice Chandrachud said, “We will list it on September 24.”
The petition argues that these platforms operate without the checks and balances imposed on traditional media, such as films and TV.
The junior doctors of West Bengal affirmed that they will not return to work before the 5 PM deadline set by the Supreme Court during yesterday's suo-motu hearing.
"There is no point in bringing a doctor after the patient is dead. It will not be effective if we start uniting just few months before election. We have to start from now," Miss Banerjee said.
Citing the Kerala government's July 17 notification relaxing Covid curbs for Bakrid, the bench said "if as a result of the notification dated July 17, 2021, any untoward spread in the Covid-19 disease takes place...this court will take necessary action against those who are responsible."
The judgement by Justices Dhananjay Chandrachud and M.R. Shah also hauled the petitioners for filing the review petitions, after the retirement of Justices Madan Lokur and Deepak Gupta, who chaired the SC bench which in their order in 2018 had scrapped the renewal process, stopping all fresh excavation of ore in the coastal state.
A bench comprising Justice R.F. Nariman and B.R Gavai said: "We may only say shocking state of affairs...the relaxation of a day in category D (areas having high Covid positivity rate) is wholly uncalled for." The bench emphasized, "Pressure groups of any kind, religious or otherwise, cannot in any manner interfere with citizens' fundamental right to life."
Several IYC activists under its national President Srinivas B.V. staged a protest near its headquarters at Raisina Marg in central Delhi and tried to march towards Parliament raising slogans against the government.
