Top Law News Food grains include pulses: Delhi HC July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Food grains are synonymous not only with cereals but pulses as well, the Delhi High Court has held. The ruling came on a plea challenging a Delhi government notification which exempted vehicles carrying food grains from the Environment Compensation Charge (ECC), but not those transporting pulses. Disagreeing with the government’s stand, Justice Vibhu Bakhru said, […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court ECC Environment Compensation Charge featured Food grains include pulses Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC pulls up ED over seizure of Qureshi’s wife’s passport July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today pulled up the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seizing the passport of controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi’s wife summoned in connection with a money laundering probe against her husband. Justice Vibhu Bakhru questioned the authority of the law enforcement agency to impound the passport. “This is not the way, a body […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court ED Enforcement Directorate featured FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act Law Legal News money laundering
Top Law News Delhi HC baffled as police books teacher after child falls into manhole during picnic July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today expressed concern over a government school teacher being booked for the death of an 11-year-old student who fell in an open manhole in a city park during a picnic. “If the manhole was visible and the teacher had sent the boy, then he could have been made liable,” a bench […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court Delhi Police featured Government school Law Legal News Millennium Park
Top Law News Delhi HC seeks govt’s stand on pleas for making marital rape an offence July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to spell out its stand petitions seeking to make marital rape a criminal offence. Marital rape (or spousal rape) is an act in which one of the spouses indulges in sexual intercourse without the consent of the other. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News marital rape
High Profile Cases Jaitley defamation case: Delhi HC chides Kejriwal’s lawyers over conduct July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was “not being reasonable” in the civil defamation case against him by Union minister Arun Jaitley, and cautioned his lawyers over their conduct. “You (defendant 1 – Kejriwal) are not being reasonable. Your conduct is not reasonable. It cannot be like this. We cannot […] Read more » Arun Jaitley Arvind Kejriwal Court Delhi High Court featured Jaitley defamation case Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC seeks AAP govt’s reply on plea against Delhi Assembly rule July 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today sought the AAP government’s stand on a plea challenging validity of a Delhi Assembly rule which permits punishing a person accused of breach of privilege of the House without hearing him. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri issued notice to the Delhi government and sought its response […] Read more » AAP government Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News plea against Delhi Assembly rule
Top Law News Pachauri suit: Delhi HC asks trial court to record evidence from Aug July 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has asked a trial court-appointed local commissioner to start recording evidence of former TERI chief R K Pachauri in a suit seeking to restrain media houses from reporting his court cases and seeking damages of Rs one crore from lawyer activist Vrinda Grover and another woman for allegedly defaming him. Justice […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Pachauri suit R K Pachauri trial court
Top Law News Inform about no. of vacant post of food inspectors: Delhi HC to Delhi govt July 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked the AAP government to inform it about the number of vacant post of food inspectors, which is hampering an effective check on the use of pesticides in vegetables and fruits sold in the national capital. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar directed […] Read more » AAP government Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News vacant post of food inspectors in delhi
Top Law News Delhi HC asks govt about vacancies of doctors in its hospitals July 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Which was the last year when the government recruited doctors for its hospitals here, the Delhi High Court asked today. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked the Centre to inform it since when the posts of doctors have been lying vacant. The court raised the questions after […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News vacancies of doctors in centre hospitals
High Profile Cases Citizens need to learn to keep their city clean: Delhi HC July 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The citizens of the national capital need to learn to keep their city clean, the Delhi High Court today said while asking the civic bodies to fix a schedule for collection and disposal of garbage. “The citizens of the national capital should also have some responsibility. They should also learn about keeping their city clean,” […] Read more » Delhi High Court Environment news featured law.court Legal News
High Profile Cases Illegal encroachments cannot be allowed anywhere: Delhi HC July 11, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Illegal encroachments or unauthorised construction cannot be allowed anywhere in the national capital, whether it is a temple, a mosque or a church, the Delhi High Court today said. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also ordered that only preserve the old structures would be preserved and the […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Illegal encroachments cannot be allowed anywhere Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC questions maintainability of plea against Speaker’s order July 10, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today questioned the maintainability of a plea by two persons challenging the Delhi Assembly Speaker’s order sending them to jail for throwing pamphlets and sloganeering in the House. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri wondered how a habeas corpus plea, as filed by the two, can be heard […] Read more » Aam Aadmi Party AAP Court Delhi Assembly Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News plea against Speaker's order