Ashutosh Chugh

Lawyer l Rationalist

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Justice Nariman laments that the removal of 90 lakh voters in Bengal did not move the Supreme Court enough to stay the SIR process.

"In West Bengal elections, 90 lakh voters were disenfranchised; that is an astounding figure. 90 lakh voters getting disenfranchised did not somehow move the Supreme Court enough to stay this. Out of those who were disenfranchised, some 22 lakh voters actually filed appeals. The others must be people who don't have the wherewithal for access to justice. And of these 22 lakh voters, some 1 lakh voter appeals were decided 93% in favour of the voters. So, you can imagine this was a completely illegal knocking out of the common man, the citizen of India, in order that a government obtains what it wants. And in West Bengal, we saw, it ousted the Government of the day and brought in the Government of the Centre . Now, these are very very disturbing things that are happening in our country today."

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#BREAKING on Bar & Bench

"If any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens... such a process is intrinsically arbitrary. No amount of whataboutery can justify it" : Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

"No authority can do it; no court can condone it." : Justice Bhuyan

#SupremeCourt @ECISVEEP

[Awesh Tiwari @awesh29]

सुप्रीम कोर्ट के जज खासतौर से सीजेआई सूर्यकांत न्याय के मूल सिद्धांतों का उल्लंघन कर रहे हैं। अभी एक देश एक चुनाव विधेयक अस्तित्व में नहीं आया है लेकिन उन्होंन�� उससे संबद्ध कमेटी के साथ बैठक कर ली।

वरिष्ठ अधिवक्ता कपिल सिब्बल @KapilSibal कहते हैं कि सीजेआई ने न केवल कमेटी के साथ बैठक कर ली बल्कि अन्य जजों के साथ ब्रीफ के भी आदेश दे दिए जिससे यह पता लग सके कि इस बिल को पारित होने में क्या क्या संवैधानिक अड़चनें आ सकती है।या घोर अनैतिक है। कोई कानून बना नहीं उसके गुण दोष को आप कोर्ट के साथ कैसे एनालाइज कर सकते हैं?

सुप्रीम कोर्ट को अंदाजा नहीं है कि देश कितना भरा हुआ है। कोई भी जनविरोधी करतूत अगर विधायिका करती है तो वह नाकाबिले बर्दाश्त होगा। देश को इस किस्म की राजनीति में उलझने से बचाना और न्यायपालिका की गरिमा को बनाए रखना स���जेआई की जिम्मेदारी है।

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

'One Nation, One Election' Committee's Proposed Meeting With Supreme Court Judges Raises Questions |@manuvichar

Kapil Sibal @KapilSibal said that such a pre-legislative discussion with Judges has never happened in the history of India.

https://t.co/9Tc02RjNYn

[Sherbir Panag 🇮🇳 @Sherbir]

There’s no duality or constitutional distinction when it comes to exercising our franchise. Elections are the life blood of democracies and to deny a citizen this right by categorising important and not so important / relevant and not so relevant elections - a great disservice has been done.

One that can simply not be undone.

[Snehasis @SnehasisMukhop4]

One of the most interesting part from the Indian Express report.

In Bengal, judicial officers kept 33 lakh voters on the electoral rolls. However, the EC filed appeals against those decisions.

Sadhu asked who had filed those appeals on behalf of the EC. Neither Sadhu nor Joshi knew.

So clearly, the entire process of disenfranchisement was centrally coordinated and organized, with the effect of altering the electoral rolls and, consequently, the electoral mandate.

SIR must be declared void ab initio.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Indian medical education will soon become a cringe fest, so much that none of the other countries of the world will accept its [true] value.

In this standard ENT textbook taught to students in MBBS, the author, Professor P.L. Dhingra claims that at 20 weeks of gestation, when the cochlea of the ear is developed, the fetus can probably hear in the womb of the mother - ok, all well - but then compares it to how Abhimanyu, when still unborn, heard the conversation between his mother and father, Arjuna in the Indian Hindu religion-related classical epic Mahabharata.

Is this how medical science is taught these days?

Instead, the author could have simplified the physiology and response of fetal hearing through published facts, such as this paper:
https://t.co/ktB23IJgKG - or discussed facts such as why the term infant cannot recognize or discriminate meaningful sounds with background noise levels greater than 60 dB - https://t.co/2LuFjn28JF

Medical educators must first study how not to mix religion into a fact-based teaching resource.

Education in medicine is a serious matter and one that cannot be trivialised on examples of fictionalized epic stories. I hope the next editions will feature less stories and more objective facts.

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

The lid has been blown off the SIR farce by colleague @RitikaChopra__ in @IndianExpress today.

The Chief Election Commissioner has nowhere to hide.

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ��11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

https://t.co/Ye9CVzr8qU

[manisha natarajan @manishanataraj]

A ₹428-crore Bollywood comedy, starring taxpayers’ money. This is Newslaundry investigation into 'Ecogreen' & how Tax Payers money disappeared while #Gurgaon continues to drown in waste.
A company set up by 2 baniya bhaiyas with no waste-management experience, lands a massive Gurugram-Faridabad contract. A Chinese company, desperate to enter India, pours in ₹428 crore. Haryana Govt/MCG then pays Ecogreen ₹325+ crore across contracts, including about ₹157 crore from #Gurugram, for collecting and processing waste and building a waste-to-energy plant.
The plant is never built. Bandhwari becomes a 38 metre garbage mountain.
The obvious questions : how were cheques after cheques released? Where were the audits? Were contractual milestones ever verified? Who certified the work? Who signed off on payments?
A failure of this scale demands a forensic investigation. But I doubt it will happen. POINT NOT TO BE MISSED : बनिया (अग्रवाल) भाइयों ने चाइनीज कंपनी को भी चूना लगा दिया !!! #mustread #bollywood #comedy #script

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

Dear @realDonaldTrump,

Please take Gyanesh Kumar Gupta to America. And keep him there. We will send our EVMs too by the next available flight.

For all the insults and bullying you’ve sent our way, this is the least we can do for you.

To SIR With Love,
from India.

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Time has come for every advocate with a conscience to speak out against Mannan! Come on guys we can do better!

[Ashutosh Chugh @ChughAshutosh]

@AshokKhemka_IAS How about EVs sir?

[Ashok Khemka @AshokKhemka_IAS]

Government data show that 22% of road accidents involve uninsured vehicles, leaving many victims uncompensated. A more efficient model is to replace compulsory third-party motor insurance with a small insurance cess on fuel… 1/2

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

Good riddance.
Massive victory for Gen Z.

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Compare the English used by Troll Pradhan in 2013 with yesterday’s post against LoP. Can’t say about India’s education system but certainly the Indian Education Minister’s Education has improved. 😇😆🤣

[Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal]

जितना नुकसान और अपमान आप लोगों ने हिंदू धर्म का किया है, शायद भारत के 5000 वर्�� के इतिहास में बाहर से आने वाले आतताइयों ने भी नहीं किया। जितना आप लोगों ने हिंदुओं को लूटा है, आज तक किसी ने नहीं लूटा। हिंदू धर्म पर आप लोग कलंक हैं।

ये वीडियो देखिए। ये क्या कर रहे हैं आप। शर्म आती है आपको? माफ़ी माँगिए पूरे हिंदू समाज से।

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

In a bizarre administrative anomaly that has left the local health department scrambling for answers, a proposed 100-bed civil hospital in #Indore's Khajrana area has been fully functioning "on paper" for six years, despite not having a single brick laid, or even a finalized plot of land.

Six years ago, #MadhyaPradesh state government announced the setting up of a modern civil hospital in Khajrana.

More details 🔗https://t.co/BUkO3lzHsD

Read the full story on the TOI App 👉https://t.co/ogFaRsVinV

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

We need to recalculate all the figures.
I wonder what our balance of payments and real GDP would be after this is done

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

PM Modi also personally supervised the NEET paper leak.