Delhi High Court
Acquired 123 Properties Being Claimed By Delhi Waqf Board In 1911, Used Them For Infrastructure Building: Centre To Delhi High Court
The Union Government has told the Delhi High Court that it acquired the 123 properties, possession of which is being claimed by the Delhi Waqf Board, between 1911-1914 and the mutation of the properties took place in the name of Government of IndiaThe Union of India has opposed the grant of interim relief sought by Delhi Waqf Board in its plea challenging the government’s decision...
Delhi High Court Allows Daiichi Sankyo To Withdraw Rs. 20.5 Crores, Imposes A Cost Of 10 Lakh On IHFL For Abuse Of Process Of Court In 4000 Crore Foreign Arbitral Award Case
The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Daiichi Sankyo to withdraw over Rs. 20.5 crores lying with the Registrar General of the High Court, which was transmitted pursuant to the Supreme Court’s 2022 order in the contempt proceedings initiated against the directors of Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited (IHFL) and Indiabulls Ventures Limited (IVL) for flouting the Supreme Court’s...
Google Moves Delhi High Court Challenging Single Judge Order Directing CCI To Consider Applications Of Start-Ups Against New Payment Policy
Google has moved the Delhi High Court challenging an order of the single judge directing the Competition Commission of India to take up the applications moved by an alliance of start-ups against tech giant’s new in-app user choice billing policy and consider the same on or before April 26.Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi appearing for Google mentioned the appeal before a division bench of...
‘Need For Safe Womb For Female Foetus’: Delhi High Court Issues Directions For Effective Implementation Of PCPNDT Act
The Delhi High Court has passed a slew of directions for effective implementation of the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, observing that there is a need for a “safe womb for female foetus.”Observing that the enactment has to be implemented with greater care and utilised by those who are affected, Justice Swarana Kanta...
Agreement Is Linked With Family Settlement Which Contains Arbitration Clause - Delhi High Court Allows S. 8 Application To Refer Parties to Arbitration
The Delhi High Court has ruled that once there is an arbitration agreement governing the parties, the matter must be referred for arbitration unless there is a “chalk and cheese” case of non-arbitrability. The bench of Justice Jyoti Singh was dealing with an application filed under Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A&C Act) in a suit for...
Bus Tickets - Decide Representation To Recognize Transgender Persons As Third Gender In A Month Or Ask MD To Remain Present: Delhi High Court To DTC
The Delhi High Court has asked the Managing Director of Delhi Transport Corporation to remain present before it or decide the representation seeking recognition of transgender community as a third gender on bus tickets and providing them free travel within one month.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora was hearing a plea moved by Amit Juyal, a transgender, seeking initiation of civil...
Proceedings Before Competition Commission Of India Won’t Be Invalidated Due To Vacancy Or Defect In Its Constitution: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that the proceedings before the Competition Commission of India would not be vitiated due to vacancy or any defect in its constitution. “Merely because of a defect or a vacancy in the constitution of the CCI, the CCI cannot be considered as a statutory authority not having jurisdiction to adjudicate the complaints or other proceedings pending before it....
Consider Start-Ups’ Applications Against Google’s New Payment Policy On Or Before April 26: Delhi High Court To CCI
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Competition Commission of India to take up the applications moved by an alliance of start-ups against Google’s new in-app user choice billing policy, and consider the same on or before April 26. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela pronounced the order on the plea moved by Alliance of Digital India Foundation, against the new policy. The plea had also...
Screening Of BBC Documentary On PM Modi Inside Campus Amounts To Indiscipline: Delhi University To High Court
The Delhi University has told the Delhi High Court that screening of a recent BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots inside the campus amounts to gross acts of indiscipline. The submission has been made by the varsity in the counter affidavit filed opposing a plea moved by PhD Scholar and National Secretary of National Students’ Union...
No All India Judicial Service Exists, Judicial Officer Has To Complete Eligibility Criteria Of Service In Feeder Grade: Delhi High Court
Observing that there is no All India Judicial Service for judges, the Delhi High Court has observed that a judicial officer has to complete the prescribed eligibility criteria of service specified in the feeder grade of a particular State judicial service. A division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Saurabh Banerjee dismissed a plea of Neetu Nagar, a civil judge who voluntarily resigned...
Delhi Riots: High Court To Hear Asif Iqbal Tanha’s Case Against Media Leak On August 02
The Delhi High Court will hear on August 02 a plea moved by Asif Iqbal Tanha against leak of his alleged confession statement to media in the larger conspiracy relating to 2020 North-East Delhi riots.Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma fixed the matter for consideration after Justice Amit Sharma and Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani recused themselves from hearing it recently.Advocate Sowjhanya...
Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 17 To April 23
Citations 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 318 to 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 337NOMINAL INDEXMEET MALHOTRA v. UNION OF INDIA THROUGH SECRETARY & ORS. 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 318JYOTI SINGH v. NAND KISHORE & ORS 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 319Yashovardhan Birla vs Cecil Webber Engineering Ltd & Ors. 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 320ASHWINI KUMAR UPADHYAY v. UNION OF INDIA & OTHERS 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 321LOUIS VUITTON...