PIL In Delhi High Court Seeks Stronger Construction Standards, Administrative Accountability In Building Norms

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking stronger standards regarding constructions and administrative accountability in the building norms in national capital. The plea filed by Indraprastha Renaissance Trust was listed today before a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Justice Arun Bhardwaj. The counsel appearing for...

Delhi High Court Directs Centre To Decide Within 6 Months Plea Seeking Mandatory Body-Worn Cameras For Police During Protest-Control Duties

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to treat a PIL seeking directions for framing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) making body-worn cameras (BWCs) compulsory and “always-on” for personnel deployed on crowd-control and protest-management duties, as a representation and decide it within 6 months. The petition, filed by Advocate Chahat Raghav, sought a comprehensive...

IRCTC Scam: Delhi High Court Stays Trial Court Order Framing Money Laundering Charges Against Hotel

The Delhi High Court has stayed a trial court order directing framing of charges against Sujata Hotels in a money laundering case connected to the alleged IRCTC scam case.Justice Sachin Datta stayed the order passed by the trial court on September 10 qua the hotel till the next date of hearing on December 03. The Court issued notice on the plea filed by M/S Sujata Hotels Private...

Past Compliance With Travel Conditions Doesn't Give Accused Indefeasible Right To Repeated Foreign Travel: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that an accused's compliance with conditions imposed during previous foreign travel cannot, by itself, confer an “indefeasible entitlement” to seek permission for foreign travel at successive intervals. Justice Sachin Datta made the observation while dismissing a plea filed by one Luv Bhardwaj challenging a condition imposed by a CBI court restricting...

Delhi High Court Orders Criminal Complaint Against 6 CBI Officers For Making False Statement In Court

The Delhi High Court has directed registration of a criminal complaint against six CBI officers for making a false statement before the court regarding correspondence with the administrative Ministry.Justice Madhu Jain said that there was a reasonable foundation in the contemporaneous record for the allegations levelled under Section 191, Section 193 and Section 290 of IPC against the...

Judicial Officer Gurvinder Pal Singh Sworn In As Additional Judge Of Delhi High Court, Total Strength Rises To 50

Judicial officer Gurvinder Pal Singh on Wednesday sworn in as an Additional judge of the Delhi High Court, taking the total working strength to 50.The swearing-in ceremony was held in the High Court premises.Judge Singh's appointment was notified by the Central Government on October 05. The announcement was made by Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on X, formerly Twitter.“In exercise of...

PIL In Delhi High Court Seeks Mandatory Body-Worn Cameras For Police, RAF During Protest-Control Duties

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Centre, Delhi Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) to frame a binding Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) making body-worn cameras (BWCs) compulsory and “always-on” for personnel deployed on crowd-control and protest-management duties.The petition, filed by Advocate Chahat Raghav, also seeks...

'Tried To Softly Bend Law Towards Justice': Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya Bids Farewell To Delhi High Court

Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya on Tuesday bid farewell to the Delhi High Court on his elevation to the Supreme Court of India, saying that throughout his judicial career, he had tried to “bind law, justice, and compassion together.”A function was organized by the Delhi High Court today in order to bid farewell to CJ Upadhyaya, which was attended by all the judges as well as...

Delhi High Court Seeks Actor Salman Khan's Response On Plea To Stay His Suit Against 'Kala Hiran' Film

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea filed by maker of proposed film “Kala Hiran: The Battle for Legacy” seeking to stay Bollywood actor Salman Khan's suit against release of the movie.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani sought response of the actor who is seeking restraint on the release of the film.The proposed movie is stated to be inspired by Khan's 1998 blackbuck...

₹3,000 Crore Construction Workers' Cess Lying Unutilised: Delhi High Court Seeks Action Plan For Welfare Benefits

Noting that around Rs. 3,000 crore collected as cess for the welfare of construction workers is lying unutilised, the Delhi High Court has directed the Centre, Delhi Government's Labour Department and the concerned Welfare Board to state whether they have an action plan to extend benefits from the corpus.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas...

Delhi High Court Declares Nehru Place No-Hawking, No-Vending Zone; MCD Free To Remove Unauthorized Vendors After October 12

The Delhi High Court has declared the Nehru Place District Centre area as a “No-hawking zone” and “No-vending zone”.A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Dinesh Bhatt made the declaration while permitting 90 identified vendors to temporarily vend from a designated site pending a decision by the Town Vending Committee-II (TVC-II).The Court observed that in...

Matrimonial Discord Without Positive Incitement Can't Amount To Abetment Of Suicide: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that mere matrimonial discord, emotional outbursts or disappointment in a marriage cannot by themselves constitute abetment of suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), unless there is a positive act of encouragement or incitement by the accused.A Division Bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Dinesh Bhatt observed that there must...