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 a Allahabad High Court judge "till he demits office" after he "erroneously" upheld summons of criminal nature in a civil dispute.

Taking 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.