Citations 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 475 to 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 497
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J & Anr. v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 475
Mrs. Khushnuma Khan And Others v. UoI 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 476
SANJAY SHARMA AND ANR v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 477
State v. MK 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 478
BHAVREEN KANDHARI v. VIJAY KUMAR BIDHURI AND ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 479
Kamlesh Mehta v. TTFI 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 480
Rajeshwar Dayal Aggarwal v. M/S Enicar Machine (India) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 481
Allahabad Bank v. RS Saini 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 482
Rajan v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 483
Sabir v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 484
Aakash Goel v. GNCTD 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 485
Rubika Thapa v. Union of India & Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 486
TUSHAR VERMA v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 487
BRIJESH KOTHIA v. STATE NCT OF DELHI 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 488
Vimal Singh v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 489
RIFAT ALI @ DANISH v. STATE NCT OF DELHI 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 490
Azad Saifi v. Akhtar Ali 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 491
RT v. GNCTD 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 492
SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN v. Union of India 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 493
KAMAL KAPOOR v. STATE 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 494
CBI v. Kuldeep Singh & Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 495
TRIMURTI FILMS PRIVATE LIMITED v. B62 STUDIOS PRIVATE LIMITED & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 496
DDPL Global Infrastructure Private Limited & Anr. v. ED 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 497
Case title: J & Anr. v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 475
The Delhi High Court has held that while a man has a legal and moral obligation to maintain his elderly parents, however, such parents receiving regular pension cannot be treated as “fully dependent” on him so as to substantially reduce the maintenance payable to his wife and minor child.
Case title: Mrs. Khushnuma Khan And Others v. UoI
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 476
The Delhi High Court has held that mere eviction of jhuggi dwellers and their rehabilitation at an alternative site would not violate their fundamental rights under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, so long as the safeguards prescribed under the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) Policy and Protocol are complied with.
Title: SANJAY SHARMA AND ANR v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 477
The Delhi High Court has ordered restoration of YouTube channel “4PM”, which was blocked pursuant to directions issued by the Centre citing concerns of national security, sovereignty and public order, subject to temporary suspension of 26 allegedly objectionable videos.
Case title: State v. MK
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 478
The Delhi High Court has held that repeated taunts directed at a woman over allegedly bringing insufficient dowry, including remarks about a “small car” and lesser quantity of gold, prima facie amount to cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.
High Court Stays Delhi Government's SOP Allowing Tree Pruning Without Prior Permission
Title: BHAVREEN KANDHARI v. VIJAY KUMAR BIDHURI AND ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 479
The Delhi High Court has stayed the operation of a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) issued by the Delhi Government last year permitting “general tending and light pruning” of tree branches having girth less than 15.7 cm without prior permission from the Tree Officer.
Case title: Kamlesh Mehta v. TTFI
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 480
The Delhi High Court has set aside an order of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) suspending its Secretary General Kamlesh Mehta — described by the Court as an “illustrious veteran” of Indian table tennis.
Case title: Rajeshwar Dayal Aggarwal v. M/S Enicar Machine (India)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 481
The Delhi High Court has held that the situs of employment and the place where termination takes effect are the determinative factors for identifying the “appropriate Government” in industrial disputes.
Case title: Allahabad Bank v. RS Saini
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 482
The Delhi High Court has held that Labour Courts exercising jurisdiction under Section 33C(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 cannot adjudicate disputed service entitlements and are confined only to computation or recovery of pre-existing rights.
Case title: Rajan v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 483
The Delhi High Court has dismissed an interim bail plea moved by a gang rape convict seeking temporary suspension of sentence on the ground that his mother required gallbladder surgery, while observing that the repeated filing of similar applications amounted to an abuse of the judicial process.
Case title: Sabir v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 484
The Delhi High Court has granted bail to a gym trainer accused in a rape case while observing that “morality has to be kept separate from the offence” when deciding questions concerning personal liberty.
'Highly Misconceived': Delhi High Court Dismisses PIL To Impose Tax On Agricultural Income
Title: Aakash Goel v. GNCTD
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 485
The Delhi High Court dismissed a public interest litigation seeking imposition of tax on agricultural income of citizens in the national capital. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia rejected the plea calling it “highly misconceived.”
Title: Rubika Thapa v. Union of India & Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 486
The Delhi High Court asked Google LLC and Apple Inc to take strict action to ensure that dissemination of obscene and pornographic content through mobile applications on their play-stores is immediately checked.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that the intermediaries not only have the responsibility to act when they receive any complaint but they also need to exercise due diligence while permitting applications displaying obscene and vulgar content at the time of getting uploaded.
Title: TUSHAR VERMA v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 487
The Delhi High Court has directed the HDFC Bank to immediately defreeze bank account of a man whose account had been frozen following a complaint from the Cyber Police Station in Vadodara, Gujarat, observing that continued seizure of the account without any FIR, accusation or material connecting him to an offence was wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law.
Title: BRIJESH KOTHIA v. STATE NCT OF DELHI
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 488
The Delhi High Court granted bail to an accused booked under the NDPS Act, holding that arrest memo containing mere reasons for arrest cannot substitute “grounds of arrest” which are personal and specific to the accused.
Case title: Vimal Singh v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 489
The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man for murdering his wife and teenage daughter, relying on his extra-judicial confession, PCR call and recovery of a blood-stained hammer used in the crime.
Title: RIFAT ALI @ DANISH v. STATE NCT OF DELHI
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 490
The Delhi High Court granted bail to an accused booked under the NDPS Act, while strongly criticising the approach of the Delhi Police in handling matters concerning personal liberty.
Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that despite repeated judicial directions, the approach of the police towards bail matters had not improved.
Case title: Azad Saifi v. Akhtar Ali
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 491
The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of ₹50,000 on an accused for repeatedly attempting to stall a criminal trial pending since 2016, describing the case as a “classic case of abuse of the procedural law.”
Case title: RT v. GNCTD
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 492
The Delhi High Court has upheld the eviction of a daughter-in-law and her son from her in-laws' house under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, holding that the senior citizens' right to peaceful residence must prevail in the facts of the case.
Title: SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN v. Union of India
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 493
The Delhi High Court said that The Wire's Founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan is prima facie guilty of “suppressing material facts”, regarding bail conditions imposed upon him by the Allahabad High Court, in his plea seeking OCI card.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked Varadarajan to file an affidavit explaining his conduct, while also recalling its earlier order setting aside Central Government's decision rejecting his request for conversion of his PIO card to OCI card.
Recalling the earlier orders passed in the matter, the Court restored the petitioner to its original number.
Title: KAMAL KAPOOR v. STATE
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 494
The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man convicted for adultery, holding that the conviction could not survive after Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Joseph Shine v. Union of India judgment.
Case Title: CBI v. Kuldeep Singh & Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 495
Delhi High Court's Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma initiated criminal contempt proceedings against AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Vinay Mishra, Durgesh Pathak and Saurabh Bharadwaj in the excise policy case noting that they had posted defamatory, contemptuous and vilifying things against her.
Justice Sharma passed the order after taking note of note various social media posts and videos shared by the respondents in connection with the recusal proceedings.
Title: TRIMURTI FILMS PRIVATE LIMITED v. B62 STUDIOS PRIVATE LIMITED & ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 496
The Delhi High Court refused to grant interim relief to Trimurti Films Private Limited in its copyright infringement suit concerning the alleged unauthorized use of the iconic song “Tirchi Topiwale” from the film Tridev in the movie Dhurandhar: The Revenge.
Delhi High Court Quashes ED Attachment Orders In PACL Case, Refers Matter To Justice Lodha Committee
Case title: DDPL Global Infrastructure Private Limited & Anr. v. ED
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 497
The Delhi High Court has set aside provisional attachment orders issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with PACL-linked properties, holding that the matter ought to be dealt with under the Supreme Court-monitored framework headed by the Justice R.M. Lodha Committee.