Wife's Failure To Provide Exact Date Of Alleged Torture Doesn't Mean Her Domestic Violence Case Is Without Any Basis: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that merely because the wife fails to provide the exact date and time of the alleged tortures by the husband and his family members does not mean that her case filed under the Domestic Violence Act is without any basis. Justice Amit Mahajan was dealing with a wife's plea challenging the family court order setting aside the grant of monthly maintenance of...

Delhi High Court Seeks NIA's Response On MP Engineer Rashid's Plea Against Framing Of Charges In UAPA Case

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a plea filed by Jammu and Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid challenging trial court order framing charges against him in a terror funding case registered under UAPA.A division bench comprising Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Shalinder Kaur called for the trial court record and listed the plea for hearing...

High Court Seeks Delhi Police's Response On Action Taken Against 'Illegal' Bars, Pubs

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (July 30) sought response of the Delhi Police on the action taken against alleged illegal bars and pubs in the national capital. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela sought Delhi Police's reply to a PIL filed by one Mahtab Khan. The plea alleges that there is rampant illegality in the operations of clubs,...

Mere Pendency Of Formal Signature By One Party Doesn't Preclude Parties From Being Referred To Arbitration: Delhi HC Allows Vedanta's Plea

The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad has held that the mere pendency of a formal signature by one party, when the other party has signed the agreement after reading and understanding its terms, including the arbitration clause, does not prevent the parties from being referred to arbitration. The Petitioner has filed this petition under section 11(6) of the...

Civil Courts Not Prohibited From Granting Anti-Arbitration Injunction In Foreign-Seated Arbitration If Proceedings Are Vexatious: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav has held that Civil Courts are not prohibited from granting anti arbitration injunction in a foreign seated arbitration if the proceedings are conducted in a vexatious and oppressive manner. The present application has been filed seeking an injunction against the ongoing arbitration before the International Chamber...

[Patent Act] Applicant's Failure To Disclose Prior Art Doesn't Bar Amendment In Specifications Of Application: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that if by suppressing any prior art, an applicant is able to obtain patent undeservingly, then such prior art can certainly be relied even at a later stage to challenge the grant of patent to such an applicant or to revoke such patent, under Section 64 of the Patents Act, 1970.However, Justice Mini Pushkarna added, “if a prior art comes to the notice of...

Parents Not Strangers After Daughter's Marriage, Can Testify About Her Harassment: Delhi High Court Denies Bail To Man In Wife's Suicide Case

The Delhi High Court has denied bail to a husband after his wife, who was three months pregnant, committed suicide within nine months of marriage over alleged harassment for dowry and cruelty towards her. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma said that the deceased's voice cannot be silenced forever and can be heard through the evidences brought forth by her parents. “The right of the victim,...

'Udaipur Files' Row: Delhi High Court Questions Centre's Power In Revisional Jurisdiction To Recommend Cuts In Film

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (July 30) orally questioned the Centre whether it had the authority to pass the kind of order it did to direct effecting six cuts to the film 'Udaipur Files:Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder' while exercising revisional powers under Section 6 of the Cinematograph Act.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela was hearing...

RTI Act | Central Information Commission Cannot Make 'Policy Prescriptions' To Any Public Authority: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that the role of the Central Information Commission constituted under the Right to Information Act 2005 is to ensure transparency and disclosure of information by a public authority, and not make policy prescriptions.Justice Prateek Jalan held thus while allowing Hindustan Petroleum Corporation's (HPCL) plea against a show cause notice issued to it by...

Delhi High Court Grants Relief To IP Holding Company Of Canadian Baseball Team Toronto 'Blue Jays' In Trademark Infringement Suit

Noting the global goodwill of 'BLUE JAYS' in connection with Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto, the Delhi High Court ordered cancellation of 'BLUE-JAY' trademark registered in favour of a partnership firm in India.The IPR holding company of Major League Baseball was aggrieved of the use of 'deceptively similar' trademark on the apparel manufactured by the...

Simplicity No Bar To Patentability, Even Simple Changes Can Lead To New Inventions: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that a simple invention, if novel and non-obvious, warrants patent protection when it addresses a technical problem with ingenuity.Justice Mini Pushkarna observed,“It needs no emphasis that simplicity is no bar to patentability and even simple changes can introduce discernible and substantive differences, leading to a new invention.”The observation...

Delhi High Court Upholds Medha Patkar's Conviction In Defamation Case Filed By LG VK Saxena

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Narmada Bachao Andolan leader and activist Medha Patkar in the criminal defamation case lodged against her by Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001.VK Saxena is presently Delhi's Lieutenant Governor. Justice Shalinder Kaur found no illegality of material irregularity in the findings of the trial court and observed that the order of conviction...