Rakesh Dwivedi – Bhartiyanews24x7

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put under scrutiny recruitment of civic volunteers under West Bengal’s ‘Ratirer Sathi’ scheme, floated after the RG Kar hospital rape-murder incident in which an earlier similarly engaged volunteer is the prime accused, and said such hirings cannot be a device to confer political patronage.“Recruitment of civic volunteers cannot be a nice process to confer political patronage on unverified persons,” said a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.It sought details of recruitment process from the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC govt in three weeks while barring their deployment in hospitals and schools till further orders.Senior advocate Karuna Nundy, appearing for a doctors’ association in Kolkata, requested the benc...

NEW DELHI: Faced with a huge financial burden caused by the ruling of a nine-judge bench of Supreme Court enabling states to collect royalty on extracted minerals and to levy tax on mineral-bearing land, Centre has sought a review, pointing out several "errors apparent in the judgment".Interestingly, the Centre has roped in Madhya Pradesh as a co-petitioner to seek review of the July 25 judgment in an open court hearing and argued that the issue raised by it "pertains to the fundamental rights of the citizens of the country and raises larger issue of public interest and grave injustice would ensue if the application for oral hearing of the review petition is not allowed".When senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for some mineral-rich states, sought early listing of pending cases relat...

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Civic volunteer recruitment can’t be a means to confer political patronage, SC tells West Bengal | India News – Times of India

Centre seeks review of SC’s mineral royalty judgment – Times of India