Tamil Nadu reports nine fresh COVID-19 infections
The Hindu
CHENNAI
With nine fresh COVID-19 cases reported in the State on Thursday, the number of persons under treatment for the infection rose to 86. Three fresh cases were reported in Chennai, while Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, the Nilgiris, Salem and Tenkasi reported one fresh infection each. A person under surveillance at the airport also tested positive.
So far, 35,94,487 persons have been infected, according to the daily bulletin of the Directorate of Public Health. Thirteen more persons were declared to have recovered from the infection. This took the number of recoveries to 35,94,487. No casualty was reported. As many as 38,049 persons have succumbed to the infection so far.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.