NTF told to reply on hosp violence, safety protocols

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the National Task Force (NTF), constituted to protect medical professionals, to file a response within eight weeks on the reports filed by states and other stakeholders on preventing gender-based violence and developing safety protocols in hospitals.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY @New Delhi

IN an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court has stripped criminal matters off the roster of an Allahabad High Court judge "till he demits office" after he "erroneously" upheld summons of criminal nature in a civil dispute.

Taking a stern view on the judge's order, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan directed removal of criminal matters from his roster till his retirement while tasking him to sit with a senior judge in a division bench.