<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of All India Drug Action Network & Others Vs Union of India Ministry of Health & Others dated 13/09/2023. Additional Solicitor General informed
Stepping in to conserve the big cat, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that there shall be no tourism activity in any of the core zones of tiger reserves across the country. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Ibrahim Kalifulla also warned of contempt proceedings and imposition of exemplary costs on states, which failed to notify the buffer zones in their respective tiger reserves.
Referring to the Supreme Court opinion on the scope of judicial review in policy matters, the Delhi Government has urged the Delhi High Court to refrain from interfering with the BRT corridor issue. In an affidavit filed through R. P. Meena, Additional Commissioner of the Transport Department, urging the Court to maintain the sanctity of the BRT corridor, the Government said: “Maintain sanctity of the BRT corridor because if any other vehicles are allowed in BRT corridor, no bus will be able to reach designated platform for proper embarkation and disembarkation of passenger.”
One more civic issue comes to the fore within a month as Ellis Nagar residents complain of uninhabitable conditions A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court Bench here on the basis of a news report that appeared in The Hindu on March 12 under the title ‘Life is hellish at Ellis Nagar’ highlighting the predicament of people living amid stagnant sewage, heaps of garbage, swarms of mosquitoes, unbearable stench and constant threat of infectious diseases.
The Bombay high court has directed the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to implement the recommendations made by the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) regarding the lack
The High Court on Thursday ordered issue of notice to the Energy Secretary and managing director, Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company in connection with the electrocution of an elephant at Alur in Hassan district. Hearing a suo motu PIL on elephant deaths, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Aravind Kumar has directed the power authorities to be present before the Court.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi Government to apprise it by July 23 of its views on the Central Road Research Institute’s recommendation to open up the BRT corridor to vehicles other than buses to ease traffic jam along the dedicated stretch. Taking a contrary view to the expert body’s recommendation, counsel for the Government, K.T.S. Tulsi, submitted that as the Government was a party in the petition against the dedicated corridor for the buses and it had not been heard on it so far, it wanted to file an affidavit on it.
It’s been more than 15 years that the Bombay High Court ordered relocation of all illegal settlements inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) to accommodations outside park limits. The forest department,
The Supreme Court has termed as “unfortunate” the alleged incidents of humans being treated as “guinea pigs” in ‘illegal’ clinical trials in the country. Clinical trials are done to ensure that such
The Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) not to permit manufacturing units within 750 metres of a river from September 1 if existing facilities are not maintained for discharge of effluents. Under the rules, facilities such as pipelines or Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) are required to be maintained to achieve the stipulated discharge standards. The directive was given by Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar who also asked the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to constitute within a month a committee for five MIDC estates in the state to monitor functioning of CETPs and for industrial units within MIDC areas.
New Delhi Pulling up the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh government over the alleged illegal clinical drug trials in the country, the Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over the issue, saying it was ‘unfortunate’ that humans were being treated as ‘guinea pigs’. Coming down heavily on the state government, a Bench headed by Justice R M Lodha noted that inadequate measures were taken to curb the problem. It pulled up the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government for not filing their response on PILs alleging large-scale illegal drug trials in the state and other parts of the country.
