The bench continued till September 28 its earlier interim order directing banks not to declare any loan as non-performing asset due to non-payment of instalments, if it was not so declared till August 31, when the moratorium period ended.
Backwardness can’t justify 50% cap breach: SC
The Supreme Court has said that social, educational and economic backwardness or inadequate representation of a community in public services cannot be a ground to grant it reservation in breach of the 50% ceiling fixed by the court. The bench stayed the operation of the Maharashtra law to grant reservation to Marathas holding that the government failed to make a case.
‘Symptomatic but negative? Must retest’
Amid a record single-day surge of over 95,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, the Centre has again urged all states and Union Territories to mandatorily retest all those found to be symptomatic negative in rapid antigen tests (RAT). The retests are to be done through the more reliable RT-PCR method. Around 60% of the total new cases were reported from just five states.
