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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India is set to rule on the powers of the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) to regulate tariffs for non-aeronautical services, a decision that could affect the charges that passengers pay for airport facilities and flying.

Lokayukta police registered an FIR against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site allotment case, official sources told news agency PTI on Friday. This development comes a day after Lokayukta police started seeking 'legal clarification' to register an FIR against the Karnataka CM, who has been under political fire over allegations connecting him to the MUDA 'scam'. On Wednesday, a special court ordered a Lokayukta police probe against Siddaramaiah in connection to the case.

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Supreme Court seeking to form an SIT to look into the matter of Badlapur encounter and sought to issue direction to Central Government, all the State Governments and Union Territories of the Country to ensure that their law enforcing agencies/ police machineries are kept in complete and constant surveillance by use of body-cam while on duty. The plea was moved by advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, who also sought to lodge FIR into alleged police encounter of main accused Akshay Anna Shinde in the Badlapur incident. The petitioner said that the incident had rocked and shocked the nation and more particularly, the State of Maharashtra, which is now popularly known as Badlapur case.

Court on Friday rapped the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) over its failure to curb air pollution due to stubble burning. A bench of Justice Abha S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih said the air quality panel needs to be more active in its approach. The court further directed the panel to file a better compliance report.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Federal authorities came down hard on Done Global, the California-based telehealth startup that prosecutors allege is an Adderall “pill mill" with a “predatory business model." Its founder was arrested and most of its U.S. staff have quit, but it’s still pumping out prescriptions to its American clientele.

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threat nexus in medical colleges in West Bengal are serious if even one or more of these are correct, the Calcutta High Court has directed the state government to file an affidavit responding to the accusations made in a PIL. The petitioners alleged that they have come across multiple reports regarding the existence of a threat culture in state government-run medical colleges and hospitals, sale of answer keys for examinations, bribery, corruption, sexual harassment and abuse of medical students and junior doctors. The court also noted that the petitioners, a doctor and a social worker, mentioned a «north Bengal lobby», which according to them exerts pressure for transfers and promotions. Noting that several allegations have been made in the public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam observed, «If any one or more are found to be correct, the matter is a very serious issue.»

Delhi High Court on Thursday pulled up Delhi University for “lack of will” to act against DUSU election contestants indulging in vandalism and defacement of public properties. The court put on hold the counting of votes for the elections that are being held on Friday, reported TOI. “This court directs that election process may proceed yet no counting of votes shall take place either on DU (Students’ Union) elections or on college elections till this court is satisfied that posters, hoardings, graffiti and spray paints are removed and public property is restored,” a bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela directed after a lengthy hearing. The HC said that it would allow the DUSU elections to go ahead but halted the counting the court is satisfied that the defacement of property has been removed, including the material such as posters, hoardings and graffiti.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Growing up in a family of lawyers in Delhi, it wasn’t surprising that Saurabh Kirpal would choose a career in law. But it was only when he started living as an openly gay man with his partner in India that he experienced—what he describes in a video interview with Lounge—as “an eye-opening moment".

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Adani Power's ₹27,000-crore offer for the KSK Mahanadi project, the Uttar Pradesh power utility has sought the consolidation of insolvency proceedings of the debt-laden thermal power company and its two subsidiaries to «protect the interests of multiple stakeholders», an industry source told ET. The Uttar Pradesh Power Corp (UPPCL) filed a writ petition in the Telangana High Court on clubbing the resolution processes of the 1,800-MW KSK Mahanadi and its two subsidiaries — KSK Water Infrastructure and Raigarh Champa Rail Infrastructure. «The high court has deferred the CIRP process on September 20,» said the source cited above.

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Transparency is key to creating an equitable, healthy and responsive legal system. CJI D Y Chandrachud and other senior justices of Supreme Court highlighted this well-established principle again, emphasising social media's active role in monitoring and amplifying courtroom proceedings. It also ensures that judicial commentary aligns with the decorum expected in courts of law. This comment came in the wake of the recent controversy sparked by certain 'gratuitous' comments made by Justice V Srishananda of Karnataka High Court against a woman advocate. Advocates Association of Bengaluru also had demanded a temporary stop on livestreaming of high court proceedings.

National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) is likely to take place in the first week of October in New Delhi. An NSCN-IM leader said, “We are asked to come to New Delhi to resume talks which have stalled for quite some time.The ball is currently in the court of the Centre. The NSCN-I-M leadership is waiting for the Centre’s decision about our demands.” On September 12, an all-important consultative meeting, convened by the state Home Department, in Kohima, discussed the long pending Naga political issue and demanded the appointment of a new ministerial-level interlocutor to take forward the talks with all the Naga groups.

Arunachal Pradesh handed death sentence to the former warden of a government residential school for sexually assaulting 21 children, including 15 girls, in Shi-Yomi district. Special judge Jaweplu Chai pronounced the capital punishment to the prime accused Yumken Bagra, the former warden of the government residential school, after finding him guilty under Sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as Sections 6, 10, and 12 of the POCSO Act. He was there between 2019 and 2022. Capital Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohit Rajbir Singh said that Co-accused Marbom Ngomdir was a Hindi teacher while Singtun Yorpen was former headmaster of the school,Ngomdir was found guilty under Section 506 of the IPC and Sections 17 and 21(1) of the POCSO Act, while Yorpen was convicted under Sections 17 and 21(2) of the POCSO Act, Singh said.