Justice Arun Mishra demitted office after over six years as Supreme Court judge. His tenure will be remembered for several verdicts, including rejecting the plea seeking SIT probe into bribery allegations in the Sahara-Birla diaries case and convicting activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan in a contempt case.
The Delhi High Court granted bail to Pinjra Tod member Devangana Kalita in a northeast Delhi violence case, but she will not be released as she hasn’t got bail in three more cases. In UP, Dr Kafeel Khan—who was in jail since January for a speech during the anti-CAA protests—was released.
There will be no Question Hour, a curtailed Zero Hour and no private members’ bills during the monsoon session of Parliament from September 14 to October 1. This prompted Opposition leaders to accuse the government of reducing “Parliament to a notice board” in the name of Covid.
