Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Transfers Excise Policy Case, Says She Can't Hear Matter After Initiating Contempt Against AAP Leaders

Delhi High Court's Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Thursday (May 14) refused to hear liquor policy case saying that since she has initiated criminal contempt proceedings against former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders, she cannot continue to hear CBI's challenge against their discharge.Justice Sharma said that a judge drawing contempt proceedings cannot hear the...

Delhi HC Initiates Criminal Contempt Against Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Vinay Mishra, Durgesh Pathak & Saurabh Bharadwaj

Delhi High Court's Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Thursday (May 14) initiated criminal contempt proceedings against AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Vinay Mishra, Durgesh Pathak and Saurabh Bharadwaj in the excise policy case noting that they had posted defamatory, contemptuous and vilifying things against her.Justice Sharma passed the order after taking note of...

'Can't Stay Silent': Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma To Initiate Contempt Action Over 'Defamatory' Online Content Posted Against Her

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi High Court on Thursday said that she will initiate contempt proceedings against certain individuals and respondents in the excise policy case after defamatory, contemptuous and extremely vilifying things were posted against her. The judge said so as she was about to hear CBI's petition challenging the discharge of all accused persons in the...

Delhi High Court Acquits Man Convicted For Adultery, Says Section 497 IPC Unconstitutional With Retrospective Effect

The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man convicted for adultery, holding that the conviction could not survive after Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Joseph Shine v. Union of India judgment.Justice Vimal Kumar Yadav observed that the case reflected a “modern avatar” of the Mahabharata-era “Niyog Pratha”, while dealing...

Delhi High Court Recalls Order Granting Relief To The Wire's Siddharth Varadarajan Against Rejection Of OCI Card

The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that The Wire's Founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan is prima facie guilty of “suppressing material facts”, regarding bail conditions imposed upon him by the Allahabad High Court, in his plea seeking OCI card. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked Varadarajan to file an affidavit explaining his conduct, while also recalling its earlier order...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Indian National Congress' Plea Seeking Conveyance Deed For Jantar Mantar Property

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice on a plea filed by Indian National Congress seeking a direction on the Delhi Government to execute a sale or conveyance deed in its favour regarding a property situated at city's Jantar Mantar Road.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav sought response of Union of India through Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the Delhi Government. Congress...

Delhi High Court Upholds Eviction Of Daughter-In-Law From In-Laws' House To Protect Their Right To Peaceful Residence

The Delhi High Court has upheld the eviction of a daughter-in-law and her son from her in-laws' house under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, holding that the senior citizens' right to peaceful residence must prevail in the facts of the case.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav dismissed a writ petition filed by a widow and her son challenging an order of...

'Classic Case Of Abuse Of Procedural Law': Delhi High Court Slaps ₹50,000 Costs On Accused For Delaying Trial Since 2016

The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of ₹50,000 on an accused for repeatedly attempting to stall a criminal trial pending since 2016, describing the case as a “classic case of abuse of the procedural law.”Justice Girish Kathpalia dismissed a petition filed by the accused challenging orders of the trial court and sessions court that had closed his opportunity to cross-examine...

Role Of Police Is Not To Just 'Arrest And Dump' People In Jail: Delhi High Court Calls For Cooperation During Prosecutions

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to an accused booked under the NDPS Act, while strongly criticising the approach of the Delhi Police in handling matters concerning personal liberty.Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that despite repeated judicial directions, the approach of the police towards bail matters had not improved. The Court said that the role of the police was “not...

Delhi High Court Upholds Life Sentence Of Man Who Called Cops After Attacking Wife & Daughter With Hammer

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man for murdering his wife and teenage daughter, relying on his extra-judicial confession, PCR call and recovery of a blood-stained hammer used in the crime.A division bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja dismissed the appeal filed by Vimal Singh against his 2002 conviction under Section 302 IPC.According to...

Arrest Memo Containing Mere 'Reasons For Arrest' Can't Substitute Person-Specific 'Grounds Of Arrest': Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to an accused booked under the NDPS Act, holding that arrest memo containing mere reasons for arrest cannot substitute “grounds of arrest” which are personal and specific to the accused. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani held that failure to furnish written grounds of arrest within the constitutionally mandated timeline renders the arrest...

Citing Roman Jurist Cicero, Delhi High Court Orders Defreezing Of Bank Account Frozen On Cyber Crime Complaint Without FIR

The Delhi High Court has directed the HDFC Bank to immediately defreeze bank account of a man whose account had been frozen following a complaint from the Cyber Police Station in Vadodara, Gujarat, observing that continued seizure of the account without any FIR, accusation or material connecting him to an offence was wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law. Citing Roman jurist Cicero,...