High Court To Consider Issuing Guidelines For Delhi Police To Follow In Cases Of Missing Children

The Delhi High Court is set to consider issuing various directions and guidelines to be followed by the Delhi Police in cases of missing children.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma was hearing a father’s plea who was aggrieved by the lapses in the process followed by the Delhi Police in tracing his minor daughter. His daughter, aged about 16 years, had gone missing on July 10 and that a complaint...

'Important Issue Of Significant Public Importance': Delhi High Court Refers Plea Seeking Hassle Free Treatment Of EWS Patients To PIL Bench

The Delhi High Court recently converted a petition seeking hassle free treatment of patients belonging to below poverty line (BPL) category and economically weaker sections (EWS) in government hospitals into a PIL, observing that the matter involves issue of “significant public importance.”Justice Navin Chawla noted that though the petition was moved in 2014, it could not be proceeded...

Conduct Survey Of All Pending Ration Card Applications For Decision On Food Security Allowance Under NFSA: High Court Directs Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to conduct a survey of all the pending applications for ration cards and decide if the persons will be entitled to receive the food security allowance. Justice Subramonium Prasad directed the Delhi Government to complete the exercise “as expeditiously as possible” and sought a status report on the same. “The State Government...

Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 24 - July 30

Citations 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 619 to 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 640NOMINAL INDEXICICI BANK LIMITED v. THE DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER & ORS. 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 619PAYPAL PAYMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED v. FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT INDIA & ANR. 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 620Ambience Developers and Infrastructure Pvt Ltd vs Zesty Foods 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 621SAMEER MAHANDRU v. DIRECTORATE OF ENFORCEMENT 2023...

Parties With Malafide Intention Consider High Court As Only Option In NI Act Cases; Can’t Usurp Metropolitan Magistrate’s Powers: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has said that in many NI Act cases, the petitioners, with malafide intention, and to prolong the litigation, raise false and frivolous pleas, and consider the high court as their only option."On this, the High Court is made to step into the shoes of the Metropolitan Magistrate and examine their defence first and exonerate them," the court said, adding that even...

IBC | Sending Demand Notice Under Rule 7(1) To Personal Guarantor Cannot Be Termed As Arbitrary: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court Bench comprising of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while adjudicating a petition filed in Vineet Saraf v Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd., has declined to quash a Demand Notice sent to a personal guarantor under Rule 7(1) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to Adjudicating Authority for Insolvency Resolution Process for Personal Guarantors...

IBC | No Writ Can’t Be Issued To Creditor, Free To Proceed Against Personal Guarantor Under IBC : Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court Bench comprising of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, while adjudicating a petition filed in Vineet Saraf v Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd., has refused to issue a Writ of Prohibition to prevent the creditor from approaching the NCLT under Section 95 of IBC against the personal guarantor. On the issue of whether a writ of prohibition can be issued to...

Insufficiently Stamped Agreement Is Only Against Stamp Act, Can’t Be A Ground To Set Aside Award: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that though in terms of the judgment of the Supreme Court in M/s N.N. Global Mercantile Private Limited vs M/s Indo Unique Flame Ltd. & Ors., 2023 SCC OnLine SC 495, an Agreement containing an arbitration clause which is not properly stamped, cannot be admitted in evidence. However, once the Agreement has been admitted in evidence by the Arbitrator, who...

2006 Tis Hazari Violence: Delhi High Court Discharges 12 Lawyers In Criminal Contempt Case, Says No Evidence To Establish Obstruction Of Justice

The Delhi High Court on Friday discharged 12 lawyers, including former Delhi High Court Bar Association President Rajiv Khosla and former Delhi Bar Association President Sanjeev Nasiar, in a suo motu criminal contempt case in connection with the violence at the Tis Hazari Court in 2006. A full bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul, Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar and Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta...

Is Requirement Of Plurality Of Inventions In Parent Application Necessary For Suo Motu Divisional Application To Be Maintainable? Delhi HC To Decide

The Delhi High Court is set to examine a question as to whether the requirement of plurality of inventions in the parent patent application is necessary for a divisional application to be maintainable even where it is filed by the applicant suo moto and not on the basis of any objection raised by the Controller of Patents and Designs.Justice C Hari Shankar referred the question to be decided by...

Delhi High Court Grants Interim Bail To Former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, Son In Coal Scam Case

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail to former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda, his son Devender Darda and businessman Manoj Kumar Jayaswal who were recently convicted and sentenced to four years of imprisonment in a coal scam case.Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma issued notice on the pleas moved by Dardas and Jayaswal against the trial court order convicting and sentencing them in the...

Delhi High Court Rejects PIL Against 'Conman' Sukesh Chandrashekhar’s Letters To Jacqueline Fernandez, Nora Fatehi From Jail

The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected a public interest litigation seeking to restrain alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, accused in a cheating case, from releasing the alleged derogatory letters from jail to media about actors Jacqueline Fernandez, Nora Fatehi and Chahatt Khanna. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula dismissed the PIL with a...