An order from the Delhi High Court has been asked to keep away from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus unless there is any proof of disturbance of law and order or in the case of varsity seeking its assistance adding that the university is not a place where the[Read More…]
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Sunanda death case: Delhi HC orders Delhi Police to submit status report in three days
The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered the Delhi police to submit a report on the status of investigations in the Sunanda Pushkar death case within three days. The court ordered that the report should also be submitted to the petitioner, BJP leader, Subramanian Swamy. Swamy said that the Delhi[Read More…]
Delhi HC adjourns hearing on Sunanda Pushkar case till July 20
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the Sunanda Pushkar death case on a plea by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Subramanian Swamy, till July 20. On July 6, Swamy had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court, seeking a court-monitored enquiry into[Read More…]
Delhi HC issues notice to Arun Jaitley in DDCA case
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, in connection to the application filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the DDCA case. Kejriwal, in his application, has asked for copies of the meeting of executive committee of DDCA from 1999 to[Read More…]
Delhi: HC allows a 40-year-old rape convict to walk free
The Delhi High Court set a 40-year-old rape convict free, reducing his sentence to seven years which he had already served behind the bars. The decision was initiated after considering that the conduct of the convict, who has a wife and two children to look after, has been satisfactory in[Read More…]
Parents will not risk daughters’ honour by filing fake rape: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has said that parents will not put the honour of their minor daughters at risk by filing fake rape cases to settle personal scores. The court even rejected the appeal of a convict against a 10-year jail term for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl, said PTI.[Read More…]
Delhi HC orders Arnab Goswami to bring down rhetoric
On Monday, the Delhi High Court issued a notice to journalist Arnab Goswami and his news channel, Republic TV, over Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s defamation plea. “Bring down the rhetoric. You can put out your story, you can put out the facts. You cannot call him names. That is uncalled[Read More…]
Shashi Tharoor files defamation suit against Arnab Goswami for 2 Cr
On Friday, Congress leader and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor has filed a defamation case against popular journalist Arnab Goswami for an amount of 2 crores and 10,000 rupees. “We filed today in Delhi High Court. Had enough of his campaign of calumny”, he tweeted. This comes soon after an[Read More…]
Delhi HC sends notice to Arnab Goswami
In connection to the Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd (BCCL) filing a criminal complaint against journalist Arnab Goswami, the Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the former Times Now Editor-in- chief for breaching employment contract and misusing the intellectual property (IP) of the media conglomerate. BCCL had filed[Read More…]
No pre-censorship in a democracy: Delhi HC
The Delhi HC told the AAP government on Thursday that, in a democracy, there cannot be pre-censorship. Responding to the policy on display of an advertisement on auto-rickshaws a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Pratibha M Singh said, “In a democracy, it (pre-censorship) should not be done. What[Read More…]
Even minor children can choose not to live with parents: Delhi HC
In a significant verdict, the Delhi High Court ruled that even minor children have the liberty to choose not to live with their parents. “Children have the liberty to choose not to live with their parents. Even minor children have the liberty,” the court said. It was an oral observation[Read More…]
Lead by example to prevent dengue: Delhi HC to AAP
Aadhaar made mandatory to ensure poor get food: Centre to Delhi HC
Central government told Delhi High Court on Monday that Aadhaar was made mandatory to ensure the poor get subsidised foodgrains under the public distribution system (PDS). “Aadhaar is mandatory for PDS, as this system is mostly misused in our country. The subsidised foodgrains were not reaching the poor. Someone else[Read More…]
Delhi HC rejects AAP’s plea to use VVPAT EVMs in MCD elections
Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed its plea for using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)-enabled EVM machines in the municipal polls scheduled for April 23. Justice A K Pathak rejected the petition saying no such direction can be issued at the “eleventh hour” as it could amount to “stalling the elections”. During[Read More…]
Delhi HC stops taxi unions from blocking Ola, Uber services
The Delhi high court on Monday passed a decree “permanently injuncting” the two taxi driver unions and anyone associated with them from blocking cabs of Ola and Uber. The court also stopped the unions and their members from removing the mobile devices installed in the app-based cabs. The court order[Read More…]
Delhi HC dismisses Zakir Naik’s plea
Trees wouldn’t be cut down if they were voters: Delhi HC
Tata, Docomo agree to settle payment dispute
Delhi HC stays new nursery admission norms
Delhi HC to ban unregistered rickshaws in Chandni Chowk from April 1
Delhi HC stays CIC order to make Modi’s degree public
Delhi HC to hear CBI’s plea against bail to SP Tyagi on chopper deal
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s petition challenging the bail granted to former IAF chief SP Tyagi in AgustaWestland chopper scam case on the ground that he could allegedly “hamper” the probe will be heard on January 9, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday. The plea filed by the[Read More…]
Son has no legal right to stay at parents’ home: Delhi HC
Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that a son, irrespective of his marital status, has no legal right to live in the self-acquired house of his parents and can only live there at their mercy. The court also added that only because parents have allowed the son to live in[Read More…]
Wife’s demand for privacy not cruelty towards husband: Delhi HC
A married woman demanding for privacy after she enters her matrimonial home cannot be dubbed as cruelty towards the husband, the Delhi High Court has held. “Privacy is a fundamental human right. Oxford dictionary defines privacy as ‘a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.’[Read More…]
Denying sex to husband is mental cruelty, ground for divorce: Delhi HC
Delhi high court on Wednesday said that denying sex to husband for a long time without any justification amounts to mental cruelty and is a ground for divorce. The verdict came on a petition by a husband seeking divorce, complaining that his wife had subjected him to mental cruelty by[Read More…]