Top Law News Government reply sought on plea over bus corridor January 19, 2012 / January 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Delhi government to file its reply on a petition by autorickshaw drivers to allow three and four-wheelers to run on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in south Delhi. The petition was filed by Nyay Bhoomi, an organisation representing autorickshaw drivers, through its president Lt. Col. B.B. Sharan. The […] Read more » Bus Rapid Transit corridor Delhi High Court Justice A.K. Sikri Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Nursery admissions on course as court reserves order January 19, 2012 / January 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the admission process for pre-school (nursery) classes in city schools which are scheduled to put up on February 1 the first list of selected toddlers for the 2012-13 academic session. Hearing a plea challenging the Delhi government’s guidelines on admissions to schools, the court reserved […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Nursery admissions
High Profile Cases Swamy’s plea on voting machines disposed of January 17, 2012 / January 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday disposed of a plea of Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were not tamper-free and needed rectification to ensure fair elections. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri, however, appreciated the suggestion made. The court said it cannot give any direction to the Election […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Court firm on punishing lawyer for assaulting woman colleague January 17, 2012 / January 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday refused to recall its order, sending a lawyer to seven days in judicial custody and restraining him from entering the court premises, for assaulting a female lawyer during an hearing. Ruling on the lawyer’s plea Monday urging the court to recall its order, the court held him guilty under criminal […] Read more » assaulting a female lawyer Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Top Law News Plea to make officials’ appraisal reports public January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The performance appraisal reports of government staffers, officially known as the Annual Confidential Report (ACR), may not be confidential anymore, with a petition before the Delhi High Court seeking to make them available under the RTI Act in “public interest”. The petitioner — RTI activist R.K. Jain — has raised the question whether performance […] Read more » ACR Annual Confidential Report Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shah RTI RTI Act.
Criminal Law News Lawyer sent to jail for seven days jail for assaulting female lawyer January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday sent a lawyer to judicial custody for seven days after the court found him guilty of misbehaving with a female lawyer during hearing. A male lawyer assaulted his female counterpart in the midst of a hearing before the Joint Registrar A.S. Jaichandra. It all started with a war of […] Read more » assaulting female lawyer Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shah Endlaw
High Profile Cases Government to act against sites with objectionable content January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Friday gave the green signal to proceed against all the accused persons heading 21 social networking sites, including Facebook and Google, that were allegedly hosting objectionable content. “Government is satisfied that there is sufficient material to proceed against the accused persons under section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of […] Read more » Advocate Shashi Tripathi Delhi High Court facebook Google Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar
High Profile Cases High Court dismisses Amar Singh’s plea January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed a plea of Rajya Sabha member and former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh seeking modification in the bail amount in the cash-for-vote case. Amar Singh approached the court saying that the high court’s order asking him to furnish a personal bond and two sureties of Rs.50 lakh each […] Read more » cash-for-vote case Delhi High Court Justice Suresh Kait Rajya Sabha member and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh
Top Law News Filter content or face blackout, court warns Facebook, Google January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Like in China, Facebook and Google India’s websites can be blocked if they fail to come up with a mechanism to check and remove derogatory contents from their web pages, the Delhi High Court warned Thursday. “Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait said, after Facebook and Google India said that […] Read more » Delhi High Court Facebook and Google Justice Suresh Kait Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra
Top Law News Lawyers’ strike cripples Delhi district courts January 13, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Litigants suffered as district courts in the capital were paralysed Thursday by a day-long strike of lawyers who are demanding all property cases be transferred from the Delhi High Court to district courts. Judges held court as usual but in the absence of lawyers most cases were put off to other dates. The ongoing 2G […] Read more » Delhi High Court property cases Rajiv Khosla spokesperson of the district courts
Top Law News Facebook, Google move court; Delhi Police issued notice January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition filed against summons issued by a trial court to 21 websites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. Challenging a trial court order that issued summons to the websites, Facebook and Google had Wednesday approached the […] Read more » Delhi High Court facebook Google Justice Suresh Kait Yahoo YouTube
High Profile Cases Order reserved on Swamy’s plea on voting machines January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on a plea filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) were not tamper-free and needed rectification to ensure free and fair elections. In his petition, Swamy said that the EVMs should be of international standard and needed rectification. Swamy submitted that […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice R.S. Endlaw