Citations 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 1 to 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 67NOMINAL INDEXVIPIN KUMAR SHARMA & ORS v. THE RETURNING OFFICER NDBA ELECTIONS, 2025 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 20 Maj (Retd.) Sukesh Behl Proprietor, M/S Pearl Engineering Company & Anr. v. Koninklijke Philips NV 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 21 DHARMENDRA KUMAR v. STATE 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 22 Sana Herbals Private Limited v. Mohsin Dehlvi &...
Citations 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 1 to 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 67
NOMINAL INDEX
VIPIN KUMAR SHARMA & ORS v. THE RETURNING OFFICER NDBA ELECTIONS, 2025 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 20
Maj (Retd.) Sukesh Behl Proprietor, M/S Pearl Engineering Company & Anr. v. Koninklijke Philips NV 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 21
DHARMENDRA KUMAR v. STATE 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 22
Sana Herbals Private Limited v. Mohsin Dehlvi & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 23
Sumit Vijay & Anr. v. Major League Baseball Properties Inc. & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 24
Ex-Servicemen Welfare Union v. Union Of India And Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 25
Ravinder Singh Gandoak v. State (Govt. Of Nct Of Delhi) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 26
Manoj Mishra v. State (and connected matter) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 27
Roadway Solutions India Infra Limited v National Highway Authority of India 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 28
Sh. Vimal Ghai v. Sh. M. P. Sharma 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 29
Jai Mangal Rai v. UoI (and batch) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 30
CBI v. Kukwant Rai 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 31
Automat Irrigation Pvt. Ltd. And Ors v. Aquestia Limited & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 32
Avinash Singh v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 33
X v. State & Anr 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 34
Anuradha @ Chiku v. State (Nct Of Delhi) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 35
China Trust Commercial Bank v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 36
Ram Kuber v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 37
X v. Y 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 38
DUSHYANT KUMAR GAUTAM v. URMILA SANA WAR & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 39
Roseland Buildtech Private Limited v. Vihaan 43 Reality Private Limited & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 40
Smt Sudha Sharma v. State Nct Of Delhi & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 41
Renuka Jain v. State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 42
Veena Arora v. Commissioner Income Tax - 12 Delhi & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 43
UMESH KUMAR & ORS v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 44
Arun Kumar Bagla v. M/S SCJ Plastics Ltd 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 45
UoI v. Naresh 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 46
Vedanta Limited v. Union of India and Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 47
Dr Manoj Khanna v. Income Tax Office 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 48
Birendra Singh Kunwar v. Union Of India Through Secretary (R) And Anr 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 49
Satish Kumar Gupta v. Sushil Kumar Loomba 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 50
SJVN Ltd. v. Patel Gammon Joint Venture 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 51
Sumeet Suri v State 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 52
JLT Energy 9 SAS v. Hindustan Cleanenergy Limited & Ors. and connected matters 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 53
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd v. Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax & Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 54
Shree Krishna Steel Traders Through Proprietor Nikhil Sharma vs. Union of India 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 55
GE Energy Parts Inc v. Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax & Anr. (and connected matter) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 56
Parvesh Mann @ Sagar Mann v. State Nct Of Delhi 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 57
Vinod @ Vinode @ Bhole v. The State (Govt Of Nct) Delhi 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 58
Principal Commissioner Of Income Tax, Delhi-1 v. Borgwarner Emissions Systems India Private Ltd 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 59
HIND SAMRAJYA PARTY v. UOI & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 60
Vodafone Idea Limited vs. Assistant Commissioner Central GST Division Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate (MCIE) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 61
Tulip Multispecialty Hospital Private Limited v. Akhil Saxena & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 62
Koshaliya Devi Rastogi v. Assistant/ Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax, Central Circle-27, New Delhi And Anr (and batch) 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 63
Shri Satya Narain, Since Deceased Through LRs v. Chairman Delhi Development Authority Through Its Chairman & Anr 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 64
JC v. BS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 65
Sh. Sanket Behari Mittal v. Sh. Subhash Chand Gupta 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 66
HARSHIT AGRAWAL v. NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY AND ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 67
Delhi High Court Rejects Plea Challenging Patiala House Courts Bar Elections 2025
Title: VIPIN KUMAR SHARMA & ORS v. THE RETURNING OFFICER NDBA ELECTIONS, 2025
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 20
The Delhi High Court has rejected a plea seeking to declare the New Delhi Bar Association (NDBA) Elections, 2025, for Patiala House Courts as null and void and for conducting fresh polls.
Delhi High Court Stays Over ₹20 Crore Decrees In Favour Of Philips In DVD Patent Dispute
Case Title: Maj (Retd.) Sukesh Behl Proprietor, M/S Pearl Engineering Company & Anr. v. Koninklijke Philips NV
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 21
The Delhi High Court stayed the execution of money decrees worth over Rs 20 crore passed in favour of Koninklijke Philips N.V., the Netherlands-based electronics company widely known as Philips. The stay is subject to the judgment debtors furnishing unconditional and irrevocable bank guarantees covering the principal amounts of damages.
Title: DHARMENDRA KUMAR v. STATE
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 22
The Delhi High Court has held that making a minor child touch the private part with sexual intent amounts to aggravated sexual assault under Section 10 of the POCSO Act.
Delhi High Court Refuses To Restrain City Ayurvedic Drug Maker From Using “NOKUF” For Cough Syrup
Case Title: Sana Herbals Private Limited v. Mohsin Dehlvi & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 23
The Delhi High Court has refused to stop Dehlvi Remedies Private Limited, an city based Ayurvedic drug maker, from using the mark “NOKUF” for cough syrups, holding that its use of the mark since 1994 defeats a later claim by Sana Herbals Private Limited, which sells its product as “NOKUFSYRUP.”
Case title: Sumit Vijay & Anr. v. Major League Baseball Properties Inc. & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 24
The Delhi High Court has held that mere global reputation of a trademark, without proof of spillover of goodwill into India, is insufficient to cancel a registered Indian trademark.
No 100% Pension Parity With Army For Pre-2009 Special Frontier Force Personnel: Delhi High Court
Case title: Ex-Servicemen Welfare Union v. Union Of India And Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 25
The Delhi High Court has held that personnel of the Special Frontier Force (SFF) who retired prior to January 1, 2009 are not entitled to claim 100% pension parity with corresponding ranks in the Indian Army, and can only seek restoration of 45% of the commuted value of pension in terms of the earlier directions of the Court.
Case title: Ravinder Singh Gandoak v. State (Govt. Of Nct Of Delhi)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 26
The Delhi High Court has held that absence of formal arrest does not bar a Magistrate from directing a person to furnish handwriting or signature samples under Section 311A CrPC.
Case title: Manoj Mishra v. State (and connected matter)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 27
The Delhi High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against security guards accused of wrongful restraint and outraging the modesty of a woman, holding that acts done bonafidely in the course of discharging duties can't be criminalised.
Case Name: Roadway Solutions India Infra Limited v National Highway Authority of India
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 28
The Vacation Bench of the Delhi High Court presided over by Justice Madhu Jain restrained the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) from acting on its Notice of Intention to Terminate (NITT) against Roadway Solutions India Infra Limited (RSIL) until the next hearing. The Court also protected the RSIL's insurance surety bonds of approx. Rs. 104 Crores from invocation.
Delhi High Court Warns Against 'Chaos' If Witnesses Are Recalled Every Time Counsel Changes
Case title: Sh. Vimal Ghai v. Sh. M. P. Sharma
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 29
The Delhi High Court has refused to recall a complainant for further cross-examination in a cheque bounce case, observing that permitting recall every time a party changes its lawyer would lead to “chaos” and cause unnecessary delay in trials.
Delay Due To Medical Review Can't Justify Ante-Dated Seniority Of BSF Candidates: Delhi High Court
Case title: Jai Mangal Rai v. UoI (and batch)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 30
The Delhi High Court Full Bench has held that candidates appointed to the Border Security Force (BSF) after a delay caused by medical re-examination are not entitled to claim seniority over batchmates who joined the service earlier, even if the delay was not attributable to them.
Case title: CBI v. Kukwant Rai
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 31
The Delhi High Court has set aside the acquittal of an accused in a counterfeit currency case, holding that minor discrepancies in counting fake currency notes are not sufficient to discredit the prosecution case when the recovery and possession are otherwise proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Case Title: Automat Irrigation Pvt. Ltd. And Ors v. Aquestia Limited & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 32
The Delhi High Court stayed an order that had restrained an Indian irrigation equipment maker from selling its “Hydromat Valve”, which was earlier held to prima facie infringe a patent owned by an Israel-based company.
Case title: Avinash Singh v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 33
The Delhi High Court has held that an accused booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act cannot be declared a “Proclaimed Offender” under Section 82 CrPC.
Title: X v. State & Anr
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 34
Reaffirming reproductive autonomy of women, the Delhi High Court held that marital discord impacting mental health of a woman is a valid ground to seek abortion under the provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.
MCOCA Can Be Invoked Against Syndicate Members Even Without Prior FIRs: Delhi High Court
Case title: Anuradha @ Chiku v. State (Nct Of Delhi)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 35
The Delhi High Court has held that the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) can be invoked against an accused alleged to be a member of an organised crime syndicate even if there are no prior FIRs or charge-sheets against such accused in her individual capacity.
Presentation Of Security Cheque On Loan Default Not Criminal Breach Of Trust: Delhi High Court
Case title: China Trust Commercial Bank v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 36
The Delhi High Court has held that presentation of a security cheque by a bank upon default of loan repayment does not constitute the offence of criminal breach of trust under Section 409 IPC.
Use Of Condom, Time Gap Can Explain DNA Mismatch In Rape Cases: Delhi High Court
Case title: Ram Kuber v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 37
The Delhi High Court has held that absence of DNA matching in a rape case is not fatal to the prosecution when surrounding circumstances, including use of condom by the accused and delay in medical examination, reasonably explain such absence.
No Presumption Of Wife's Earning Capacity At Interim Maintenance Stage: Delhi High Court
Title: X v. Y
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 38
The Delhi High Court has ruled that a wife cannot be presumed to be earning or being capable of maintaining herself while considering grant of interim maintenance to her by the husband.
Title: DUSHYANT KUMAR GAUTAM v. URMILA SANA WAR & ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 39
The Delhi High Court directed Congress party, Aam Aadmi Party and various others to take down allegedly defamatory publications from social media linking BJP's National General Secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP Dushyant Kumar Gautam to the Ankita Bhandari murder case.
Case Title: Roseland Buildtech Private Limited v. Vihaan 43 Reality Private Limited & Ors.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 40
The Delhi High Court has dismissed what it described as “luxury litigation” challenging a debt assignment, saying issues of fraud or the existence of debt must be decided by the insolvency tribunal, not a civil court.
Case title: Smt Sudha Sharma v. State Nct Of Delhi & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 41
The Delhi High Court has held that in criminal cases arising out of a police report, the right to file an appeal against acquittal vests exclusively with the State.
Case title: Renuka Jain v. State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 42
The Delhi High Court has held that in cases arising out of a police report, only the State or the accused has the locus to seek directions for expeditious disposal of the trial.
Case title: Veena Arora v. Commissioner Income Tax - 12 Delhi & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 43
The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with reassessment proceedings initiated against a taxpayer after documents seized from real estate group Bhutani Infra allegedly reflected a cash transaction linked to a flat purchase.
Title: UMESH KUMAR & ORS v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 44
The Delhi High Court has directed the Special Committee of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) to decide a representation filed by three lawyers seeking addition of their names in the electoral roll for the ensuing elections.
Case title: Arun Kumar Bagla v. M/S SCJ Plastics Ltd
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 45
The Delhi High Court has held that a director's assurance of payment given in the ordinary course of a commercial transaction cannot, by itself, be treated as fraudulent inducement so as to attract the offence of Cheating under Section 420 IPC.
Case title: UoI v. Naresh
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 46
The Delhi High Court has held that disciplinary proceedings under Rule 14(2) of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules 1965, which are founded on an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) inquiry, stand vitiated where complainants are examined in the absence of the delinquent employee.
Delhi High Court Orders Status Quo On ONGC Takeover Of Vedanta's Gujarat Offshore Oil Block
Case Title: Vedanta Limited v. Union of India and Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 47
The Delhi High Court ordered a status quo on the government's move to take over an offshore oil block in Gujarat operated by Vedanta Ltd., effectively pausing the Centre's direction asking the company to stop operations and hand over the block to ONGC.
Belated Deposit Of TDS Doesn't Extinguish Criminal Liability Under Income Tax Act: Delhi High Court
Case Title: Dr Manoj Khanna v. Income Tax Office
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 48
The Delhi High Court has held that the subsequent or belated deposit of tax deducted at source (TDS) does not absolve an assessee or company officials of criminal liability under Section 276B of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Case title: Birendra Singh Kunwar v. Union Of India Through Secretary (R) And Anr
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 49
The Delhi High Court has held that obtaining diplomatic passports for a live-in partner and children born from such a relationship does not amount to “grave misconduct” warranting withholding of employee's pensionary benefits, where the relationship and family circumstances were consistently disclosed to the department.
Case title: Satish Kumar Gupta v. Sushil Kumar Loomba
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 50
The Delhi High Court has reiterated that its revisional jurisdiction under Section 25B(8) of the Delhi Rent Control Act is supervisory in nature and does not permit reappreciation of evidence or revisiting factual findings recorded by the Rent Controller.
Case Title: SJVN Ltd. v. Patel Gammon Joint Venture
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 51
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition filed by SJVN Limited challenging an arbitral award that granted payment to Patel Gammon Joint Venture for transporting excavated material during a hydroelectric project in Himachal Pradesh.
Case title: Sumeet Suri v State
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 52
The Delhi High Court has suspended the sentence of a company director convicted for criminal breach of trust under Section 409 IPC, holding that the very substratum of the conviction stood weakened after his acquittal on charges of cheating and forgery.
Case Title: JLT Energy 9 SAS v. Hindustan Cleanenergy Limited & Ors. and connected matters
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 53
The Delhi High Court has refused to restrain Hindustan Cleanenergy Limited and its group companies from creating third-party rights in two solar power projects in Tamil Nadu and Bihar, holding that the share purchase agreements signed with a French investor had already come to an end on their own terms.
"Shocking": Delhi HC Pulls Up IT Dept For 8-Year Delay In Processing ₹5.37 Crore Microsoft Refund
Case Title: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd v. Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax & Ors
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 54
The Delhi High Court has pulled up the Income Tax Department over “shocking” eight years delay in processing Rs 5.37 crore tax refund to Microsoft Corporation India.
Income Tax | Delhi High Court Bars Tax Recovery After Taxpayer Pays 20% Of Disputed Demand
Case Detail: Shree Krishna Steel Traders Through Proprietor Nikhil Sharma vs. Union of India
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 55
The Delhi High Court restrained the Income Tax Department from taking any recovery action, including adjusting refunds, after it orally observed that the taxpayer had already paid 20% of the disputed tax demand and had the balance stayed during the pendency of the appeal.
Delhi High Court Quashes Higher 3.5% TDS On GE Group Payments, Restores 1.5% Rate
Case Title: GE Energy Parts Inc v. Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax & Anr. (and connected matter)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 56
The Delhi High Court has quashed the certificates issued by the Income Tax Department directing deduction of tax at source (TDS) at a higher rate of 3.5% on payments made to two GE group entities, and directed the authorities to issue fresh certificates prescribing deduction at the rate of 1.5%.
Case title: Parvesh Mann @ Sagar Mann v. State Nct Of Delhi
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 57
The Delhi High Court has held that once final arguments in a criminal trial are concluded and the matter is reserved for judgment, the judge who heard the case is duty-bound to pronounce the verdict even if he or she is subsequently transferred.
Case title: Vinod @ Vinode @ Bhole v. The State (Govt Of Nct) Delhi
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 58
The Delhi High Court has held that convictions recorded while a prisoner is continuously incarcerated cannot render the prisoner a “habitual offender” for the purpose of denying furlough under the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018.
Case Title: Principal Commissioner Of Income Tax, Delhi-1 v. Borgwarner Emissions Systems India Private Ltd
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 59
While dealing with the Income Tax Department's appeal in a transfer pricing case, the Delhi High Court has flagged that the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) failed to discharge its statutory duty by merely approving the conclusions of the Transfer Pricing Officer (TPO) without recording independent findings.
Delhi High Court Upholds Validity Of Election Symbols Order, Rejects Plea By Hind Samrajya Party
Title: HIND SAMRAJYA PARTY v. UOI & ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 60
The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition seeking striking down of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968.
GST | Wrong-State Tax Payment Triggers ₹10.91 Lakh Refund Fight For Vodafone Idea
Case Detail: Vodafone Idea Limited vs. Assistant Commissioner Central GST Division Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate (MCIE)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 61
What began as a wrong-State GST payment has snowballed into a Rs 10.91 lakh refund dispute for Vodafone Idea Ltd. (Vi), after the Delhi GST Department rejected its refund claim. On Wednesday, the Delhi High Court declined to intervene, noting that the dispute turned on how the refund period was selected while filing the application.
Case title: Tulip Multispecialty Hospital Private Limited v. Akhil Saxena & Anr.
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 62
The Delhi High Court has held that a Magistrate does not have the power to discharge an accused at the stage of Section 251 CrPC in a summons case, after cognizance has already been taken and summons issued.
Case title: Koshaliya Devi Rastogi v. Assistant/ Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax, Central Circle-27, New Delhi And Anr (and batch)
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 63
The Delhi High Court has directed the Income Tax Department to release the jewellery and cash seized from a family's house, after the latter agreed to deposit advance tax towards their probable tax liability arising from a search operation.
Long Pendency No Ground To Avoid Remand Where Core Issues Were Never Decided: Delhi High Court
Case title: Shri Satya Narain, Since Deceased Through LRs v. Chairman Delhi Development Authority Through Its Chairman & Anr
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 64
The Delhi High Court has held that the long pendency of a civil suit cannot be a reason to avoid remanding the matter when the trial court has failed to decide the core issues on merits.
Case title: JC v. BS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 65
The Delhi High Court has held that while a parent is entitled to regular and meaningful visitation rights, the same can be regulated at the interim stage if circumstances indicate a risk to child's sense of security, emotional well-being or psychological stability, even without adjudicating disputed allegations between the parents.
Case title: Sh. Sanket Behari Mittal v. Sh. Subhash Chand Gupta
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 66
The Delhi High Court has reiterated that while a landlord is ordinarily considered the “best judge” of his requirements, this principle does not relieve him of the legal burden to prove a bona fide and genuine need with cogent evidence while seeking eviction under the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958.
Title: HARSHIT AGRAWAL v. NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY AND ORS
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 67
The Delhi High Court has ruled that the right to pursue higher or professional education is a fundamental right of an individual which cannot be curtailed lightly.
“The right to pursue higher or professional education even though not explicitly spelt out as a fundamental right in part III of the Constitution of India, it is an affirmative obligation on the part of the state to ensure this right and the same cannot be permitted to be curtailed, lightly,” Justice Jasmeet Singh held.