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Limit arrests, release prisoners on parole: Read Supreme Court directions on containing COVID-19 spread in overcrowded prisons

India has more than four lakh prison inmates. Some of the prisons in India are overburdened and are housing inmates beyond optimal capacity.

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[COVID-19 surge] P&H HC| “Consider home delivery of Oxygen cylinders for patients who are on oxygen support at home”; HC suggests deploying municipal workers for home delivery of oxygen

Punjab and Haryana High Court: The Division Bench of Rajan Gupta and Karamjit Singh, JJ., asked the governments Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh

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Del HC| Migrant Workers’ right to livelihood and free Medical aid; High Court directs Delhi government to form a structured Scheme for Unorganized workers within 2 weeks

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench comprising of Manmohan and Asha Menon, JJ., addressed the present writ petition with regards to right

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[COVID-19 surge] Del HC| “Consider exempting Oxygen Concentrators from IGST”, HC tells Finance Ministry

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Rajiv Shadher abd Talwant Singh, JJ., addressed the instant petition challenging the imposition of Integrated

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[Covid-19 surge] Pat HC| “Most of the directions have remained on paper”; HC expresses disappointment over State inactions

Patna High Court: The Division Bench of Chakradhari Sharan Singh And Mohit Kumar Shah, JJ., expressed its sheer dissatisfaction over the progress

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Delhi HC issues Contempt notice to Center for non-supply of oxygen to NCT of Delhi

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench comprising of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., addressed the issue regarding rising death toll due

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COVID-19 surge| Supreme Court’s Summer Vacation preponed

Considering the alarming surge in the COVID-19 cases in the country, the Supreme Court has preponed it’s Summer Vacation. As per the

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Del HC | Delhi Police should immediately release the seized Remdesivir or other Drug used for treating COVID-19 or any Oxygen Cylinders seized from the possession of patients or their attendants || Detailed Order on COVID-19 concerns

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., addressed the issues with regard to position of Non-ICU

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Del HC | Hoarding of medicines or Oxygen cylinders/ flow metres leads to artificial scarcity, to an extent which may not be there || Detailed Order of COVID-19 Crisis

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., while addressing concerns with regard to COVID-19, expressed that

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[COVID-19] Madras HC | States’ failure in filing status report: HC remarks State’s indolence knows no bounds to use pandemic as excuse for acting in flagrant breach of Court orders

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., while addressing the State’s failure in filing the

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Distribution of COVID essentials like oxygen, Remdesivir| “Not substituting the jurisdiction of the High Courts”; Supreme Court explains why it intervened

“The role of this Court in the present situation is complementary to the role and functions being performed by the High Courts. Neither is intended to substitute the other.”

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[COVID-19] Utt HC | State to establish Real Time Portals for informing public about availability of beds, oxygen cylinders and flow-meters; HC lays down directions

Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench of Sri Raghvendra Singh Chauhan, CJ and Alok Kumar Verma, J., while addressing the present matter

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Del HC | ‘We made no request for any hotel, much less Ashoka Hotel’: Notice issued to Delhi Govt. after it reserved 100 rooms in 5-star hotel as Covid facility for Judges, judicial officers, families

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., took suo motu cognizance of media reports stating that

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[Supply of Medical Oxygen] Del HC | Stoppage of tankers by one State would have snow balling effect: HC hopeful that with infrastructure for transportation of liquid Oxygen been augmented, the supplies to Delhi would considerably improve

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., expressed that It serves no purpose for anyone to

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Madras HC | Survival and Protection: Only when citizen survives that he enjoys other rights that this democratic republic guarantees unto him || HC on COVID-19, Election Commission, Vote Counting

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., while noting the upsurge of COVID-19, stated that