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NEW DELHI: Deprecating continued use of the banned invasive two-finger test to determine a rape survivor’s prior sexual conduct, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Union and state governments to take steps to erase the humiliating test from medical curriculum and warned that doctors would be guilty of misconduct…

CHANDIGARH: A Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice Dr DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli, issued notice to the Union Territory of Chandigarh, on a plea filed by Ananya Goswami and Col AP Goswami, challenging the last-minute change in criteria for MBBS admissions to Government Medical College Hospital, Chandigarh.

Bench was dealing with a situation where drawer of cheque would have paid part of the debt for which he or she may have given a post-dated cheque as security

The Chief Justice of India UU Lalit on Tuesday recommended Justice DY Chandrachud's name as his successor to the Centre in accordance with the convention. Read more on Dynamite News:

Chandrachud had held that the Chief Justice and the judges of the court were constitutional offices and not a hierarchy

Justice Chandrachud will be the 50th Chief Justice of India.

Incumbent Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Pankaj Mithal was transferred to the Rajasthan High Court in the same capacity. Read further on Dynamite News:

Union Law Ministry has already sent its request to CJI U.U. Lalit to nominate his successor.

The court also recorded the petitioner’s prayer that RBI should also intervene to protect the personal data of users.

The schism within the collegium comes at a crucial time when the letter from the Union Law Minister requesting the incumbent Chief Justice of India, Justice U.U. Lalit, to recommend the name of his successor may arrive any day now

Bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Hima Kohli said it did not want any litigant to go unheard on the last working day before Dasara holidays