Tag: Delhi High Court

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Delhi HC refuses urgent hearing to IABF plea ag’st BFI polls

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Delhi High Court today declined to give an urgent hearing to a plea by Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) seeking stay of the upcoming elections to consitute the Boxing Federation of India (BFI). The application seeking ex-parte stay of the September 25 election to the BFI executive committee was mentioned before a bench of justices […]

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Aircel-Maxis: HC defers plea on 2G court jurisdiction

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Delhi High Court today deferred hearing on the petition against a trial court order dismissing pleas of ex-Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others challenging jurisdiction of the special 2G court to try the Aircel-Maxis case. Justice I S Mehta posted the hearing for December 22 after the CBI informed it that the […]

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“User info unavailable after account deletion”

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Social networking platform WhatsApp today told Delhi High Court that on deletion of user account, the information of that person is no longer retained on its servers. The submission came in response to a query by a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal as to whether user information is retained […]

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Plea in HC against sr adv designation:Govt seeks time to reply

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The Centre today urged Delhi High Court to grant them more time to file their response to a plea challenging legal provisions and Supreme Court rules for designation of lawyers as senior advocates. The request was made before a bench headed by Justice S Ravindra Bhat, who on August 1 had issued notice to the […]

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Plea in HC seeks to declare Hindi as national language

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A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to take appropriate steps to declare Hindi as the national language of India. The plea, which is likely to come up for hearing next week, also sought a direction to the government to make Hindi a compulsory subject for […]

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Delhi HC verdict finds place in elite Yale Law School journal

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A landmark judgement of the Delhi High Court, which had struck down an 1870 law on court fees, has found place, along with four others from around the world, in a prestigious international journal published by the Yale Law School of the United States. The judgement penned in 2013 by Justice Gita Mittal had struck […]

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Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply on plea for electoral reforms

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Delhi High Court today sought the Centre’s reply on a plea seeking a slew of electoral reform measures, including setting aside of the six-year cap on the period of disqualification from contesting polls on being convicted and sentenced to two years or more. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal […]

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No interim order on Britannia’s plea: Delhi HC

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Delhi High Court today refrained from passing an interim order on Britannia Industries Ltd’s plea challenging a single judge’s order restraining them from using the packaging of its ‘Nutri Choice Digestive Zero’ biscuits in its present form. “In the meantime, nothing,” a bench of justices B D Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar said when the counsel […]

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WhatsApp don’t have access to users data: Delhi HC told

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Instant messaging platform WhatsApp today opposed in Delhi High Court a plea alleging that privacy of its users has been threatened by a new privacy policy announced by Facebook, saying regulations were in place and the latter does not have access to any data as it provides end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp had made extensive changes to […]

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Stop stubble burning to check pollution: Delhi HC to Govt

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The growing menace of stubble burning in states like Haryana and Punjab, which is a major cause of air pollution in the national capital, today led the Delhi High Court to direct the government to ensure “zero burning” of bio-mass this year. A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar expressed concern that […]

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Jigisha murder case: Death row convict challenges conviction

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One of the two death row convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case has moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and the sentence awarded to him by the trial court. Convict Amit Shukla, who along with accused Ravi Kapoor was handed down death penalty has approached the high court, saying the trial […]

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AAP new education reform plan under Delhi HC scanner

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The Delhi High Court has sought AAP government’s reply to a plea challenging its new education reform plan ‘Chunauti 2018’ which seeks to check dropout rate of students and improve education quality with special focus on the weaker students. Under ‘Chunauti 2018’ scheme, students would be mapped and the weaker students would be given “special […]

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