The Orissa High Court issued a directive in the matter of Bibhuti Charan Mohanty v. State of Odisha and Ors, directing the Puri Municipal Corporation to provide compensation amounting to ₹10 lakh... Read more »
The Manipur Government has informed the Supreme Court on the disbursement of ₹5 crores to the Women Victims Compensation Fund, established to provide compensation to women who were victims of the strife-torn... Read more »
In a significant ruling, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday has directed that the state government shall be primarily responsible for paying compensation to victims of dog bites, adding that... Read more »
The Supreme Court, acknowledging the prolonged suffering of manual scavengers subjected to inhuman conditions, has asked the Central and state governments to entirely eliminate manual scavenging throughout the nation. Passing a bunch... Read more »
The Bombay High Court has issued notices to various agencies within the Maharashtra government in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a judicial inquiry into the causes of the recent... Read more »
A consumer court in Hyderabad has recently directed a bus service operator to pay ₹10,000 as compensation to an individual whose confirmed bus ticket was cancelled under the pretext of bus unavailability.... Read more »
The Chhattisgarh High Court has recently directed the State government to provide a compensation of ₹1 lakh to an individual who endured nearly 8 months of imprisonment due to a wrongful arrest... Read more »
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has recently issued a directive to the Punjab State police, instructing them to compensate a man with ₹10,000. The compensation is for the filing of a... Read more »
The Bombay High Court has recently quashed the Assistant Conservator of Forest order that awarded only Rs 10,000 to a woman who survived a tiger attack and dismissed the wounds as ‘simple... Read more »
In the Ludhiana gas leak case, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently formed an eight-member fact-finding joint Committee to be led by the Chairman of the Punjab State PCB. The Tribunal has... Read more »