PIL filed in SC against freebies by political parties during elections

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to seize election symbols and deregister political parties that promised to distribute irrational freebies from public funds. The PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay claimed political parties’ arbitrarily promises or irrational freebies for wrongful gain and to lure voters […]

Uttarakhand HC issues instructions to state, central govts while hearing PIL on coronavirus spread

Uttarakhand High Court on Friday issued a set of instructions to the state and central governments while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in connection with the spread of coronavirus. The bench of Chief Justice RS Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma, while hearing the Public Interest Litigation filed by Advocate Dushyant Mainali […]