Magistrate Becomes Functus Officio After Accepting Cancellation Report, Can't Probe Police Lapses: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that once a Magistrate accepts a cancellation or untraced report filed by the police, the court becomes functus officio and cannot thereafter proceed to examine alleged lapses in investigation or direct action against police officials.Justice Saurabh Banerjee thus allowed a batch of petitions filed by police officials challenging a series of orders passed by...

Delhi High Court Upholds Summoning Of Sanctioning Authority Before Charge Stage In Corruption Case

The Delhi High Court has upheld the summoning of the sanctioning authority at the pre-charge stage in a corruption case, holding that courts are not barred from examining the validity of sanction before the commencement of trial where the facts so warrant.Justice Amit Mahajan thus dismissed a petition filed by the State challenging an order of the Special Judge permitting the accused to...

Delhi High Court Passes Interim Order Protecting Personality Rights Of Gautam Gambhir

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (March 25) passed an interim order protecting the personality rights Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir. Earlier, Gambhir withdrew his previous interim injunction application with liberty to file a fresh application with same cause of action with complete and better particulars. After hearing the parties and perusing the infringing links, Justice...

Delhi High Court Acquits Sonu Punjaban In Trafficking Case, Finds Prosecutrix's Testimony Unreliable

The Delhi High Court has set aside the conviction of Geeta Arora, popularly known as Sonu Punjaban, in a case involving allegations of trafficking and sexual exploitation of a minor, holding that the prosecution failed to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt due to serious inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecutrix.Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha observed that while a conviction...

Delhi High Court Raps Litigant Seeking FIR Against Judge Over Alleged Forgery In Judicial Order

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rapped a litigant who filed a writ petition seeking registration of FIR against a judicial officer over allegations of committing forgery in a judicial order. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia also took exception to the litigant's conduct of uploading the video of proceedings on YouTube. The Court cautioned...

Alleged Disclosure Of Confidential Information May Be Contractual Breach, But Not Defamation: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that allegations of disclosure of confidential business information by an employee, even if assumed to be true, would at best constitute a breach of contractual obligations and not amount to defamation in the absence of any defamatory imputation made to third parties.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed an appeal filed by a book company, which had challenged...

Delhi High Court Flags Possible Conflict Between S.223 BNSS Interpretation And SC Law On Cognizance, Refers Issue To Larger Bench

The Delhi High Court has referred to a larger bench the issue relating to the stage of taking cognizance under Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) and the timing of issuance of notice to the accused under its first proviso.For context, Section 223 pertains to examination of the complainant. The provision states that a magistrate having jurisdiction while...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea Alleging Non-Compliance With SC Directions For CCTVs In Police Stations During Arrest, Interrogation

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea alleging non-compliance with the Supreme Court's directions mandating installation and maintenance of CCTV cameras in police stations and other investigative offices, particularly during the arrest and custodial interrogation of an accused.A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shail Jain sought responses from the State and...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Exclusion Of Autism, Mental Illness & Learning Disability Candidates From UPSC Reservation

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a public interest litigation challenging the exclusion of candidates with autism, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities and mental illness from reservation benefits in the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).A Division Bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia...

Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: March 16 To March 22, 2026

Citations 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 259 to 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 291NOMINAL INDEXSHRI BALAJI v. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 259 DIMPY CHUGH v. STATE (NCT OF DELHI) AND ANR 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 260 ED v. M/S Mahanivesh Oils & Foods Pvt Ltd 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 261 State v. Shiv Shanker 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 262 HIMAYANI PURI v. KUNAL SHUKLA & ORS 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 263 Ghunna...

Actor Mohanlal Withdraws Plea Seeking Interim Relief Against Infringing Content In Suit For Protecting Personality Rights

Malayalam actor Mohanlal on Tuesday (March 24) withdrew from Delhi High Court his application for interim injunction against content allegedly infringing his personality rights.The court permitted the actor to withdraw his interim application while granting him liberty to file it afresh with better particulars. The order was passed in the actor's main suit seeking protection of his...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Quash CBI FIR Against RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav In Land For Jobs Scam

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea moved by RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav seeking to quash the corruption case related to the alleged land for jobs scam case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Justice Ravinder Dudeja refused to quash the CBI FIR, three chargesheets as well as the trial court orders taking cognizance of the said chargesheets.The Court said...