Delhi High Court
Suspension Of Para Swimmer Prasanta Karmakar Accused Of Recording Videos Of Female Swimmers Upheld By Delhi High Court
Justice Subramonium Prasad of the Delhi High Court on Monday upheld the 3-year suspension order passed by Paralympic Committee of India in respect of Arjuna Awardee Paralympic Swimmer Prasanta Karmakar, observing that he failed to showcase how the decision of the Disciplinary Committee was unfair. Reiterating that the scope of judicial review over administrative decisions...
Delhi Chief Secretary Gets Interim Relief, High Court Directs ‘The Wire’ To Take Down Alleged Defamatory Article Over Bamnoli Land Acquisition
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed news portal 'The Wire' to take down its article on city’s Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar casting aspersions on him in relation to his involvement in an alleged land acquisition case.Justice Sachin Datta granted ad-interim injunction in favour of Kumar in his suit against the news portal. The court had reserved order on Kumar’s application...
S.76(3) Trademarks Act Does Not Require Both Rival Marks To Be Registered CTMs, Targeted Client Base Relevant To Infringement: Delhi High Court
In an application filed by a leading Scrum certification organization, the Delhi High Court yesterday granted interlocutory injunction restraining the defendants from using the plaintiff’s mark “CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER” as well as its logo. The plaintiff, being registered proprietor of Certification Trade Marks (CTMs) “CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER”, “CSM” and certain device...
Delhi High Court Sets Aside Municipal Corporation Order Directing Pacific Mall Not To Charge Parking Fee From Visitors
The Delhi High Court has set aside an order issued by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) in 2018 directing city’s Pacific Mall not to charge parking fee from the visitors. A division bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Amit Mahajan observed that the charging of parking fee by the mall does not violate the Unified Building Byelaws for Delhi, 2016, or the Master Plan for...
Delhi High Court Asks Civic Authorities About Status Of Deconcretizating Trees In National Capital
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the city’s civic authorities, including the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), to submit a time-frame within which the process of removal of concrete around the trees in the national capital will be completed.Justice Jasmeet Singh directed the authorities to file an affidavit indicating the total number of trees which have been concretized, which...
Maintenance Provision Under Hindu Marriage Act Is Gender Neutral: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that the provision for grant of maintenance pendente lite and litigation expenses to a spouse under the Hindu Marriage Act is gender neutral. A division bench of Justice V Kameswar Rao and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta said that the spouse having a reasonable capacity of earning but who chooses to remain unemployed and idle without any sufficient...
Delhi High Court Dismisses Challenge To CERT-IN’s Empanelment Procedure, Reiterates That Courts Ought Not Sit In Appeal Over Expert Decisions
Justice Subramonium Prasad of the Delhi High Court recently dismissed a litigant’s challenge to the procedure adopted by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) w.r.t. empanelment of cyber-security firms as IT security auditing organizations.It was observed that, “…the process of empanelment adopted by the Respondents is extremely technical. The Court cannot be expected to sit...
Seized Cash Should Be Treated As Advance Tax As Per Law, There Was No Default In Payment Of Advance: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that the seized cash was offered by the assessee, under the regime that was prevailing then, to be treated as the advance tax, and thus there was no default in payment of the advance. Although its payment or adjustment was triggered due to a search action,The bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice Girish Kathpalia has observed that the petitioner had offered...
Delhi High Court Directs Centre To Conduct Exercise For Improving Infrastructure Of Its Hospitals
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Union Government to undertake an exercise for improvement of infrastructure of the hospitals being controlled and run by it in the national capital. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna also directed the Delhi Government to file an action taken report stating as to whether the recommendations of the...
Delhi High Court Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Murdering Wife, Reiterates Ligature Marks In Case Of Hanging Different From Strangulation
The Delhi High Court on Monday granted bail to a man being prosecuted under Sections 302 (murder), 498A (cruelty) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) IPC, in relation to his wife’s death.“In view of the categoric opinion of the doctor that the cause of death is asphyxia as a result of antemortem hanging, it prima facie, appears that the medical evidence is not in accord with...
High Court Reserves Verdict On Delhi Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar's Plea For Interim Relief In Defamation Suit Against 'The Wire'
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on the plea for interim relief in the defamation suit filed by city's Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar against news portal 'The Wire' over a report casting aspersions on him in relation to his involvement in an alleged land acquisition case. Justice Sachin Datta reserved verdict on Kumar's application seeking ad-interim injunction also issued...
Delhi High Court Directs BCD To Take Action Against Lawyer If Found Guilty Of 'Manufacturing' Order Purportedly Passed By IPAB
The Delhi High Court has directed the Bar Council of Delhi to take action against a lawyer if he is found guilty of "manufacturing" an order purportedly passed by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in 2016.A division bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Shailender Kaur however discharged the clients who engaged the lawyer to represent their case before the Board after...