Power Of DRI Officers To Issue Show-Cause Notices Under Customs Act And A 'Flux' In The Legal Position: Delhi HC Discusses

The Delhi High Court recently discussed a 'flux' in the legal position with respect to power of officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) to issue show-cause notices and recover duties under the Customs Act, 1962. A division bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Ravinder Dudeja was dealing with a batch of petitions seeking to quash the SCNs and pending adjudication...

Court Can Quash SCNs And Proceedings Under GST Act, Customs Act Or Finance Act On Ground Of Inordinate Delay In Adjudication: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that Show Cause Notices and adjudication proceedings under the Customs Act, 1962 , the Finance Act, 1994 or the Central Goods and Services Tax, 2017 cannot be kept pending for years. In its 177-page judgment, a division bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Ravinder Dudeja observed, “Matters which have the potential of...

[Delhi Riots] No Call For Violence In Speeches, No Connection With Co-Conspirators: Sharjeel Imam To High Court

Sharjeel Imam, accused in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that there was no call for violence in his public speeches. Imam's counsel told a division bench comprising of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur that there were “repeated calls” for non violence in the speeches. "There is no call for violence in any of my speeches….There...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Entertain PIL Alleging Sexual Harassment Of Women In Indian Film Industry

The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) raising allegations of sexual harassment of women in the Indian film industry. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela remarked that a “fishing and roving inquiry” cannot be ordered when there is no complaint by an aggrieved party. The Court also...

Will Cooperate And Continue To Participate In Delhi Police's Investigation: Activist Nadeem Khan To High Court

Human rights activist Nadeem Khan on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that he will cooperate and continue to participate in Delhi Police's investigation against him in the case alleging that he promoted enmity and hatred.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal appearing for Khan submitted before Justice Jasmeet Singh that the investigation was ongoing and that the activist is participating in the...

'Petitioner's Voluntary Retirement Could Not Be Cancelled After Being Accepted By Respondents Once', Delhi High Court

A Division Bench of Delhi High Court comprising Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur observed that the Petitioner's voluntary retirement could not have been cancelled after it was accepted in the first place. The Bench held that the Respondents could at their best have rejected his application for postponement of the date of his voluntary retirement but cancelling the...

'Candidates Must Be Given Appropriate And Correct Reasons Behind Their Rejection To Any Post', Delhi High Court

A Division Bench of Delhi High Court comprising Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur observed that while rejecting the appointment of the Petitioner, the Respondents should have conveyed the correct reason i.e., falling in the last priority in the Priority List instead of informing him that he had failed in the written examination. It was observed that such litigations burden...

Death Of Unnao Rape Victim's Father: Delhi High Court Grants Interim Bail To Kuldeep Sengar On Medical Grounds

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (December 10) granted interim bail on medical grounds to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the custodial death case of Unnao rape victim's father.Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri granted interim bail for 10 days to Sengar who is serving 10 years of imprisonment in the case. The Court partly allowed Sengar's plea and suspended his sentence for the time being....

Does Bar U/S 195(1)(a)(i) CrPC Apply To Non-Appearance Of Proclaimed Offender Punishable U/S 174A IPC? Delhi HC Refers Issue To Large Bench

A single bench of the Delhi High Court has referred the question of “whether charges under Section 174A of the IPC can be clubbed with charges under Sections 172-188 IPC and whether the court can proceed without a complaint under Section 195 of the Cr.PC”, to a larger bench for consideration.For context, Section 174-A, added through an amendment in 2005 and enacted in 2006, penalizes...

Delhi High Court Stays BCI's Decision Removing AAP's Legal-Chief Sanjeev Nasiar As BCD Vice Chairman

The Delhi High Court has stayed the decision of Bar Council of India (BCI) removing Advocate Sanjeev Nasiar from the post of Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) Vice Chairman, pending completion of an inquiry into authenticity of his law degree.Justice Sanjeev Narula passed the order on a plea filed by Nasiar challenging BCI's resolution passed on December 7 and listed the matter for hearing next...

Activist Nadeem Khan Created Narrative To Portray "Particular Community" As Victims Of Oppression By Govt: Delhi Police To High Court

The Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court that human rights activist Nadeem Khan, through “targeted dissemination of selective and misleading information”, has sought to create a narrative portraying members of a “particular community” as victims of “systematic oppression” by the incumbent government.“This selective portrayal is not only factually distorted but appears to...

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Files ₹100 Crore Defamation Suit In Delhi High Court Against Media Outlets Linking Him To Adani Indictment

Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has filed a Rs. 100 crore defamation suit against various media houses over allegedly malicious and defamatory news reports linking him to the indictment proceedings against the Adani Group in United States. Justice Subramonium Prasad on Tuesday issued notice on Reddy's application seeking interim injunction order in the suit. He...