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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said availability of public toilets is an important duty of the state governments and Union territories and steps need to be taken to ensure that such facilities are accessible to all. Issuing a slew of directions on a PIL filed by a lawyer, the apex court asked all the high courts, state governments and UTs to ensure availability of separate toilet facilities for males, females, persons with disabilities (PwDs), and transgender persons in all court premises and tribunals across the country. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan while hearing the plea said public health is of paramount importance and creation of adequate public toilets also protects the privacy and removes the threat to women and transgender persons. "The High Courts shall oversee and ensure that these facilities are clearly identifiable and accessible to Judges, advocates, litigants, and court staff. "For the aforesaid purpose, a committee shall be constituted in each of

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would on March 25 hear a batch of pleas against the acquittal of Surendra Koli in the 2006 Nithari serial killings case. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih was informed by solicitor general Tushar Mehta that the case was over the "very serious and gruesome" killings in Nithari, UP. Koli's counsel said the evidence against his client was a confessional statement, recorded several days after his police custody in the case. The bench directed its registry to summon the trial court records in other connected matters expeditiously and supply its copies to the lawyers appearing in the matter. The hearing was posted on March 25. In 2024, the apex court agreed to examine separate pleas filed by the CBI and the UP government challenging the Allahabad High Court's decision acquitting Koli on October 16, 2023. The bench had sought a response from Koli on the petitions and tagged it with similar pending pleas. The top court in May, 2

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A bench of Justices BR Gavai, JB Pardiwala and Prashant Kumar Mishra made these observations while hearing the issue related to the death of cheetahs.

In a judgment in September 2018, the apex court declared a live telecast of court proceedings part of the right to access justice under Article 21 of the Constitution

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A farmer who is offered seeds by a company with a promise to buy back the harvest at a higher rate is a "consumer", according to Consumer Protection Act

The SC ruled last week that employees of ONGC are not "consumers" of the trust for purposes of the Consumer Protection Act

Creation of new states is usually followed by litigation over tax liabilities of industrial units in the new territories

The Supreme Court last week upheld the award of the arbitration tribunal which found that the Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company had wrongfully terminated its contract with Ansaldo Energia SPA