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The Delhi High Court has awarded Rs 6 lakh interim compensation to a six-year-old victim of sexual assault, observing that though the system cannot undo the offence, it can provide psychological security or empowerment with monetary help besides prosecuting the offender.
The high court, which set aside the trial court’s order awarding Rs 50,000 interim compensation to the boy-child, enhanced the amount to Rs 6 lakh, saying the previous sum was low, to say the least.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that while attempting to quantify the compensation payable to the victim even at the interim stage, the court’s effort should be to offer monetary recompense, to the extent possible, for the atonement of the crime.
›Can t send someone to war without gun: HC on need for vaccinating legal aid lawyers going to prisons
Can t send someone to war without gun: HC on need for vaccinating legal aid lawyers going to prisons
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Can t send someone to war without gun: HC on need for vaccinating legal aid lawyers going to prisonsPTI
Last Updated: May 13, 2021, 12:54 PM IST
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The court was hearing a plea by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority, represented by advocate Ajay Verma, seeking directions to the Centre and Delhi government to urgently vaccinate judicial officers and legal aid lawyers at the vaccination centres set up in district courts.
Cannot send someone to war without a gun, says court
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked if legal aid lawyers and judicial officers in the 18-44 age bracket, working to implement Supreme Court orders to decongest prisons due to the pandemic, can walk in for vaccination shots at the centres set up in district courts.
“You cannot send someone to war without a gun,” Justice Navin Chawla remarked, adding legal aid lawyers and judicial officers also needed to be protected against the virus.
The High Court’s query to the Centre and Delhi government came while hearing a plea by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA), represented by advocate Ajay Verma, seeking directions to urgently vaccinate judicial officers and legal aid lawyers at the vaccination centres set up in district courts.
HC directions to Delhi govt on oxygen, cylinders and planning for medication shortages
Delhi government has said it will hold a meeting of all the stakeholders and take a decision.
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The Delhi High Court on Monday issued a slew of directions to the Delhi government on various issues which included fixing rates for oxygen, its cylinders and planning for any future shortages of medicines required for Covid-19 treatment.
A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli passed the directions based on the shortcomings pointed out by amicus curiae and senior advocate Rajshekhar Rao in his report placed before the court.
319 inmates infected with COVID-19, 65 recovered, 5 dead: Delhi DG Prisons ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 14:56 IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): As many as 319 Tihar Jail prisoners were infected with COVID-19 out of whom 65 have recovered and five have succumbed to the infection till May 3, the DG (Prisons) has informed the High Powered Committee (HPC).
This was stated by Sandeep Goel, Director General, Prisons, Delhi at a meeting held on Tuesday at 6 pm through video conferencing under the Chairpersonship of Justice Vipin Sanghi, Judge, High Court of Delhi and Executive Chairperson, Delhi State Legal Services Authority.
Goel informed that out of the 319 prisoners, 249 are active cases, 63 have been isolated in jail itself, 67 have been lodged in Central Jail Hospital (Tihar), 37 in Central Jail Hospital (Mandoli), 16 in Burari Hospital, 14 in Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital, 5 in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital, 4 in Deen Daya