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Dehradun: SC refuses to stay tree felling for proposed road widening; allows petition before HC
•A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Sudhanshu Dhulia rejected the prayer made by senior advocate Sanjay Parikh, appearing for activist Ashish Kumar Garg that tree felling be stayed for at least a week, till the time Uttarakhand High Court takes up the issue
Explained: The Uttarakhand slaughterhouses row and what courts have said
Fp Explainers •In 2017, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh had followed in Uttar Pradesh’s footsteps and cracked down on ‘illegal’ slaughterhouses. The high court had in 2018 directed the state government to seal illegal slaughterhouses 72 hours and banned slaughter of animals in the open and pu
Uttarakhand HC seeks details of police horse Shaktiman assault case
•Hearing a PIL challenging the acquittal of five persons in the case by a lower court including Mussoorie MLA and cabinet minister Ganesh Joshi, Justice Alok Kumar Verma of the high court sought the details from the home secretary within four weeks
Madras HC grants living being status to ‘Mother Nature’: What does it mean and what are its legal precedents?
Fp Explainers •Declaring 'Mother Nature' a living being gives it the status of a legal person, with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person
Why Uttarakhand High Court’s order to allow rape survivor to terminate 28-week foetus is significant
Fp Staff •The petitioner had stated that being forced to continue with the unwanted pregnancy was extremely deleterious to her mental and emotional well-being
Uttarakhand High Court lifts ban on Chardham Yatra after three months; check details here
Trendingdesk •Keeping in mind the COVID-19 rules and regulations, the court has ordered to start off the Chardham Yatra.
'Repeatedly causing embarrassment': Uttarakhand HC slams state govt over COVID-19 management
Fp Staff •The court's remarks came after videos of priests reportedly violating social distancing norms at temples in Badrinath and Kedarnath as part of Chardham Yatra surfaced
SC stays Uttarakhand HC's 'drastic order' of CBI probe into graft allegations against Trivendra Singh Rawat
•The high court on Tuesday had ordered for a CBI probe into allegations made by a journalist in a video, accusing Rawat of allegedly getting money transferred to accounts of relatives in 2016 to back the appointment of a person in Jharkhand
SC stays contempt proceedings against Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank over rent payment
•The Union minister had challenged the Uttarakhand High Court order that directed former chief ministers to pay rent at market rates for the entire period they occupied government accommodation since demitting office
Reservation fufils demand of substantive equality under Article 16(1) of Constitution; states duty-bound to offer it to disadvantaged groups
Jeba Mondal •Under the Constitution, reservation is an aspect of substantive equality which imposes a duty on states to provide it for those groups who are disadvantaged in different terms