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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
After refusing to share dates when Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and her family declared their financial assets, the Union ministry of finance (FinMin) now claims that its regulatory establishment (RE) section has no information to provide...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central government to formulate a scheme for cashless medical treatment for motor accident victims in the "golden hour" period mandated under law (S Rajasekaran v. Union of India).   The golden hour is the the first 60 minutes after a traumatic...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the Central Information Commission (CIC) cannot ask the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to requisition information on subscribers from Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) under the Right To Information Act (RTI). (TRAI v. Akshay Kumar...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government's Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to give a timeline within which pending vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and various State Information Commissions (SIC) would be filled (Anjali Bhardwaj & Ors. v....

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Adv (Dr) Prashant Mali 06 January 2025
The recently proposed Rule 10 of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, while aiming to safeguard children's privacy, raises significant concerns about the potential unintended consequences for marginalised communities. This rule mandates that verifiable parental consent be...

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Shashwat Singh (Bar  and   Bench) 06 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that landowners are entitled to the current market value of acquired land when compensation payable by the government for acquisition of land is delayed (Bernanard Farncis Joseph Vaz and Others v. Government of Karnataka and Others).   The Court passed the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 January 2025
The Supreme Court recently set aside a ruling of the Madhya Pradesh High Court for taking a strict view of a beneficial legislation like the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (Urmila Dixit vs Sunil Sharan Dixit & Ors).   Section 23 of the Act states that if a...

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It is perhaps fitting that we are starting 2025, which marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, with serious introspection, triggered by the passing of former prime minister (PM) Manmohan Singh in India and President Jimmy Carter in the United States, at the age of 91 and 100,...

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Young Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Bhagyashree Navtake, who undertook a complex series of fraud investigations between 2020-2022, involving the Jalgaon-based Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni Multi State Cooperative Credit Society Ltd (BHRC), following multiple complaints from its depositors,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2025
Market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has once again refused to share information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act on the dates of declaration of financial assets and equities held by SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her family members. After contradicting...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 31 December 2024
This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of encephalitis-causing virus called the Chandipura virus (CHPV) caused an outbreak in Gujarat, Maharashtra,...

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Information that does not harm the public servant’s career, such as date of joining, promotion details and nature of work, can be disclosed and if any information is to be denied or disclosed, proper reasons for such a decision must be provided, ordered the Madras High Court on 20 December...

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Despite the Central government having increased the upper limit from Rs10,000 to Rs50,000 per person to refund money to depositors of the Sahara group of cooperative societies, the cooperation ministry has replied to the central information commission (CIC) that the refunds are being given...

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In a reformist kind of judgement, the Kerala High Court has ruled that if documents held by a cooperative society are accessible to the registrar of cooperative societies and are not exempt from disclosure under Section 8 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the registrar is obliged to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 December 2024
Hundreds of workers under the aegis of NREGA Sangharsh Morcha held a two-day dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They sent a letter to Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Union minister for rural development (MoRD), to counter claims of the ministry about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

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In a case of better late than never, the citizens of Jammu & Kashmir have, at last, got their own RTI portal (www.rtionline.jk.gov.in), which was launched early this week, with 270 public authorities to whom you can address your RTI request and 27 pages of lists of nodal officers with their...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court recently took strong exception to the gender discrimination faced be elected women representatives in India, particularly at Panchayat (village council) levels (Sonam Lakra v State of Chhattisgarh and ors).   The Court was dealing with a case where it found that the ouster...

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