morning digest march 03, 2020
The HinduChief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde on Monday orally said courts were not “equipped” to handle palpable “pressure” being created to somehow step in and prevent violence in Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed that a plea filed by Sara Abdullah Pilot against the continued detention of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah under the Public Safety Act needs to be heard quickly as it concerns his personal liberty. The Madras High Court on Monday sought the response of the State government and the police by March 9 to a couple of public interest litigation petitions that called for the eviction of all those who were protesting against the Citizenship Act by squatting on public roads without police permission and causing inconvenience to the public. The ongoing tax raids using Central forces in Chhattisgarh and the actions of the Union Finance and Home Ministries are an affront to cooperative federalism, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.