Top lawyer Harish Salve dismissed Supreme Court case
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Harish Salve ruled out of a case related to oxygen, vaccines and drug delivery.
New Delhi:
Amid mounting cases of Kovid, senior advocate Harish Salve today dismissed the case saying that the Supreme Court yesterday included the distribution of oxygen, vaccines and drugs across the country. The Supreme Court allowed Mr. Salve’s request to be dropped, prompting some senior attorneys to assist the court to appoint him as “amicus curiae”.
Mr. Salve referred to the criticism made by some lawyers over his appointment. He said, “I do not want this case to be decided under the shadow of the Chief Justice.”
Lawyer Vikas Singh also referred to Chief Justice Bobde s passion for bikes (File)
New Delhi:
Outgoing Chief Justice SA Bobde wanted Shah Rukh Khan to mediate the Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute and the actor had even agreed, but it did not work out. The anecdote came up during a virtual farewell for Justice Bobde today.
Vikas Singh, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, dropped the nugget during his tribute to Justice Bobde. Justice Bobde asked me whether Shah Rukh Khan was willing to mediate in the Ayodhya dispute. I spoke with SRK and he was happy to be in the mediation but unfortunately, mediation did not work, Mr Singh said, as Justice Bobde listened.
From antiviral drugs to oxygen supply: How High Courts have responded to the Covid-19 second wave
The Supreme Court on Thursday said multiple proceedings in High Courts were leading to confusion and diversion of resources. 2 hours ago A patient lies inside an ambulance waiting in a queue to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad on April 14. | Reuters/Amit Dave
On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided that it needed to intervene as the Covid-19 pandemic crisis claimed even more lives and India’s medical resources were impossibly strained.
The bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde, who is set to retire on Friday, initiated suo moto proceedings to consider four critical problems relating to the response of the authorities to the pandemic: the supply of oxygen, the supply of essential drugs, the method and manner of vaccination and the state’s powers to declare lockdowns.
Intervention of SC in COVID-19 Management Unnecessary: Congress
Party spokesperson Singhvi said the SC intervention is wrong because it may have the unintended effect of legitimation of the utter failure of the Centre in its anti-COVID policies.
Singhvi spoke out against the move of the Supreme Court. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday termed as “wrong” and “uncalled for” the
suo motu intervention made by the Supreme Court in the management of COVID-19 in the country, alleging it amounts to over-centralisation of judicial powers.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said high courts were efficiently upholding the citizens’ right to life and holding the government accountable in a more nuanced way on a case-to-case basis and they should have been allowed to carry on their work.
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