Top Law News Delhi HC suspends summer break to make up work loss due to coronavirus. April 10, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High court Thursday decided to suspend its summer vacation this year, slated from June 1 to 30, to make up for the loss of working hours due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. The high court has also cancelled the summer break of subordinate courts in June this year. The decision was taken at […] Read more » Delhi HC Delhi HC suspends summer break suspends summer break
Bar, Bench & Firm News Delhi HC to hear on Sep 3 plea against Shah Faesal’s detention August 23, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court said on Friday it will hear on September 3 former IAS officer Shah Faesal’s plea alleging he was illegally detained at Delhi airport on August 14 and taken back to Srinagar where he has been kept under house arrest. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal asked both sides […] Read more » Delhi HC plea against shah faesal's
Top Law News Remove bunds blocking flow of water into Yamuna: Delhi HC to Haryana February 6, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked Haryana to remove the bunds that, according to the Delhi government, were blocking flow of clean water into the Yamuna and was leading to an increase in pollution levels in the national capital’s water supply. The direction by a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K […] Read more » bunds blocking flow of water into Yamuna Chief Justice Rajendra Menon Delhi HC Delhi Jal Board Haryana Justice V K Rao Manohar Lal Khattar
Top Law News National Herald case: Delhi High Court to hear on Jan 16 January 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court said Wednesday it will hear on January 16 the appeal of Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of National Herald newspaper, challenging the single judge order asking it to vacate its premises here, due to non-availability of advocates on January 15. In the morning, the court was informed that Solicitor General Tushar […] Read more » Delhi HC National Herald case vacate premises of National Herald House
Top Law News Delhi HC sentences man to life term for sodomy July 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sodomising a three-and-a half-year-old boy, observing that the child was subjected to traumatic and brutal sexual assault. A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel dismissed the man’s appeal and upheld a trial court’s order convicting him for the offences […] Read more » Delhi HC featured life term for sodomy Protection of Children from Sexual Offences S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel
Environment Law News Cutting of trees continues; contempt plea in HC against NBCC June 27, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: A plea was today filed in the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against the NBCC for allegedly violating its undertaking not to cut trees till July 4 for housing projects here. The contempt petition was mentioned before a vacation bench of justices Vinod Goel and Rekha Palli who said it would be heard […] Read more » Delhi HC Environmental Clearance (EC) Kasturba Nagar Mohammadpur Naoroji Nagar Netaji Nagar Sarojini Nagar Thyagaraja Nagar
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court directs male JNU professor not to take charge of women hostels May 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi HC on Thursday directed a professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), accused of sexually harassing women students, should not take charge as warden of any hostel in the university campus which houses women. While also directing the professor not to interact with the students, the court also questioned the varsity over the absence […] Read more » Delhi HC Delhi High Court featured jawaharlal university JNU jnu professor atul kumar jnu professor sexual assault allegation
High Profile Cases Karti’s bail plea order reserved by Delhi HC in INX Media case March 16, 2018 / March 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on the bail plea of Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidamabaram, in the INX Media corruption case lodged by the CBI. Justice S P Garg heard the CBI and Karti’s lawyer and reserved his decision. The CBI opposed the bail plea saying that tampering […] Read more » Delhi HC featured INX Media case Karti's bail plea order reserved
Top Law News Delhi HC to hear plea of 8 AAP MLAs against disqualification January 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi High Court judge will hear later in the day the plea of eight AAP MLAs against their disqualification for holding office of profit. Justice Vibhu Bakhru said he will hear the pleas of the MLAs, challenging the Centre’s notification which had disqualified 20 legislators, after lunch. Observing the crowd in his courtroom before […] Read more » 8 AAP MLAs Delhi HC featured hear plea of 8 AAP MLAs against disqualification Justice Vibhu Bakhru MLAs' disqualification National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act.
Top Law News Delhi HC asks authorities to inspect juvenile homes January 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today directed authorities to inspect juvenile homes in the national capital and report back any deficiencies in the facilities and their solutions. A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar directed the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) and Public Works Department of the […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal authorities to inspect juvenile homes DCPCR Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Delhi HC featured Justice C Hari Shankar juvenile homes
Top Law News None has right to use government land as burial ground: Delhi HC December 28, 2017 / December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No one has the right to indiscriminately use any open land, especially that belonging to the government, as a burial ground, the Delhi High Court has held. The ruling by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar came on a PIL challenging a sub- divisional magistrate’s order questioning use […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal burial ground Delhi HC featured government land as burial ground Justice C Hari Shankar Kabristan Intzamia Association
Criminal Law News Top Law News Weapons not for showing off, but self defence: Delhi HC July 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment One does not have a fundamental right to keep a weapon and its possession nowadays is more for “showing off” as a “status symbol” than for self defence, the Delhi High Court has said. The observation by Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva came while rejecting a private company official’s plea for an arms licence, a request which […] Read more » Delhi HC License to hold an arm self defence weapons weapons for self defence Weapons not for showing off
