# Supreme Court

• Four decades after validating execution of death row convicts through hanging by the neck in the Deena judgement of 1983, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed for a fresh scrutiny of hanging by the neck method.
• Supreme Court signalled the search for a less peaceful method, given the scientific development since.
• Supreme Court has taken up six year old PIL by advocate Rishi Malhotra.
• CJI led bench says study should be undertaken on possibly less painful execution methods in keeping with scientific developments.
• Supreme Court bench rules out shooting by firing squad as uncivilized. It also said Electric chair or lethal injection are painful and prone to goof up.

# Rajasthan

• Rajasthan on Tuesday passed a landmark Right to health (RTH) bill under which private hospitals will not be able to charge emergency patients and will be compensated by the state.
• Doctors from private hospitals are protesting against the decision and the protests are now joined by the government doctors.
• The bill will become a law after being signed by the governor.
• Rajasthan will become the first state in the country to guarantee such a right to health to its residents through a statute.

# Rajya Sabha

• The centre’s direct and indirect tax wings have seized immovable property valued at over ₹1 lakh crore, but disposed off assets to the tune of ₹71 crore, the government told in Rajya Sabha.
• Many cases were properties are seized have been challenged in courts and cannot be disposed until settled by courts.
• The ED has also secured confiscation of proceeds of crime of ₹15600 crore.

# Srilanka

• The IMF said on Tuesday it is Assessing Srilanka’s governance in the first case of an Asian country facing scrutiny for graft as part of a bailout programme.
• The IMF executive board approved a nearly $3 billion bailout plan for Srilanka on Monday.