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Crack down on illegal adoption of kids orphaned amid Covid: Supreme Court

The NCPCR and some women and child welfare NGOs had informed the bench that there are several advertisements in the public domain, including on social media, inviting people to adopt orphans.

Best of BS Opinion: Course correction on vaccine, climate of treason & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

Climate of treason

Apex court should order scrapping all sedition cases

SC releases draft model rules for live-streaming, recording of proceedings

The e-committee of the Supreme Court on Monday released the Draft Model Rules for Live-Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings

Major concerns about crypto currencies conveyed to govt: RBI governor

This comes after RBI's circular earlier this week that clarified banks can no longer cite its circular on crypto for not offering such products to customers

SC grants 15-day interim bail to Unitech's ex-promoter Sanjay Chandra

The bench refused to accept the submission of senior advocate Siddharth Dave for some more time; Sanjay is accused of allegedly siphoning homebuyers' money

SC rejects plea against HC order granting anticipatory bail to journalist

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court order granting anticipatory bail to a Mumbai-based journalist in a rape case lodged against him by a 22-year-old woman

'Journalists entitled to protection': Supreme Court quashes sedition case

Journalists are entitled to protection in sedition cases under a 1962 verdict so long as they do not incite violence against the government, the Supreme Court held on Thursday while quashing an FIR against Vinod Dua for his alleged comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his YouTube show last year. The veteran scribe had uploaded a video on March 30 last year on 'The Vinod Dua Show on YouTube' allegedly asserting that the Prime Minister used deaths and terror attacks at Pathankot and Pulwama to garner votes. The FIR lodged at Kumarsain in Shimla by a Himachal Pradesh-based BJP leader had also alleged that Dua had tried to spread false information such as the government did not have enough testing facilities for COVID-19. The verdict by a bench of justices Uday Umesh Lalit and Vineet Saran said: "We are...of the firm view that the prosecution of the petitioner for the offences punishable under Sections 124A and 505 (1) (b) of the IPC3 would be unjust. "Those offences, going

Supreme Court quashes FIR against veteran journalist Vinod Dua

The Bench declined to entertain Dua's prayer for setting up of a high-level committee in each state for prior vetting of sedition charges against journalists of 10-year standing.

SC directs CBSE, CISCE to place on record objective criteria for assessment

Supreme Court directed the CBSE and CICSE to place on record well-defined objective criteria for assessment of students in two weeks

Provide complete data of Covid vaccine purchase history: SC tells Centre

The top court also asked the Centre to specify the steps being taken by it to ensure drug availability for mucormycosis

It's only words…

Sedition law needs to be observed in letter and spirit

Top headlines: SC pulls up Centre over vaccination; PVR Q4 net loss widens

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Former SC judge Justice Arun Mishra joins as new NHRC chairperson

Former Supreme Court judge justice Arun Mishra on Wednesday took charge as the new chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, officials said.

Former Supreme Court judge justice Arun Mishra takes over as NHRC chief

Justice Mishra, who joined as an apex court judge on July 7, 2014, demitted office in September 2020.

SC stays Delhi HC order on levy of IGST on imported oxygen concentrators

The Supreme Court stayed a Delhi High Court order holding as "unconstitutional the imposition of IGST by the Centre on import of oxygen concentrators by individuals for personal use

Kapil Wadhawan moves SC over NCLAT stay against his Rs 91,000-cr DHFL offer

NCLAT was scheduled to hear the reply of Wadhawan on June 25, but he moved SC before that

Decongestion of jails: SC asks details of prisoners released amid pandemic

Supreme Court directed the states and UTs to furnish details of prisoners who have been released on interim bail or parole in pursuance to the last month's order

IUML seeks SC intervention on MHA order allowing citizenship to non-Muslims

IUML has moved SC seeking a stay on the May 28 order of MHA which empowered certain districts to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh

SC stays levy of IGST on imported oxygen concentrators for personal use

The Supreme Court stayed the operation of a Delhi High Court order holding as "unconstitutional the imposition of the IGST by the Centre on import of oxygen concentrators for personal use