Hygienic public toilets are part of the right to life, the Delhi High Court has said, and it now wants social work students to make surprise checks on the facilities run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. New Delhi: Saying that the right to access hygienic public toilets includes the right to life, the Delhi […]
Paying members of sports clubs are consumers under the Consumer Protection Act, the Gujarat State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held, setting aside the dismissal of a lifetime member’s complaint over the termination of his membership of the Surat District Cricket Association. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held that members of […]
A Mumbai magistrate court has remanded three men arrested in the Tiger Shroff firing case to the custody of the Mumbai Police Anti-Extortion Cell until October 31, as the investigation into the October 18 attack continues. Mumbai: The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Esplanade in Mumbai on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, remanded three accused in […]
An indigent legal-aid appellant was sent to jail only because he could not deposit Rs 10,000; the Rajasthan High Court has held that a convict’s inability to pay prosecution costs cannot revoke probation, and has set that order aside. Jodhpur: Probation granted to a convict has been restored by the Rajasthan High Court after a […]
The Supreme Court has left the first decision to the State Election Commission but set a clock: in the Andhra Municipal Polls dispute, the YSRCP’s complaints of violence and obstruction must be examined by October 22, and the final list of candidates stays on hold until October 25. New Delhi: Directing the Andhra Pradesh State […]
Nine passengers died when a sleeper bus caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway, and the Allahabad High Court issues notice to MoRTH, the authority the State points to for testing stations located outside Uttar Pradesh. Prayagraj: A fire on a sleeper bus near Jewar on the Yamuna Expressway, on the intervening night of September 23 […]