Hold Meeting On Increasing Security In District Courts: High Court To Delhi Police, Bar Associations

The Delhi High Court has asked the senior officials of the Delhi Police and Bar Associations to suggest measures on increasing the safety and security in district courts in the national capital.Taking note of the recent incident where a suspended lawyer shot a lady inside Saket Courts, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad asked...

Will Continue To Engage Diplomatically With UAE Authorities To Obtain Information About 'Jailed' Software Engineer: MEA To Delhi High Court

Responding to a father’s plea seeking information about his son who is stated to have been jailed in United Arab Emirates, the Union Ministry of External Affairs has told the Delhi High Court that it will continue to engage diplomatically with the authorities in Abu Dhabi through Indian Embassy to obtain relevant information on the case. The submission was made in a short affidavit filed by...

Re-Evaluation Of Answer Scripts Is Subject To Rules Laid Down By Examining Authority, Can’t Be Claimed As Matter Of Right: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has said that re-evaluation of answer scripts in examinations cannot be claimed as a matter of right and that it is always subject to the Rules laid down by the concerned examining authority. Justice Mini Pushkarna dismissed a plea moved by a moved by student seeking directions for Central Board of Secondary Examination to re-evaluate and rectify her mathematics...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Google’s Appeal Challenging Single Judge Order Directing CCI To Consider Applications Against New Payment Policy

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on the appeal filed by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc against a single judge order 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.A division bench of Chief Justice...

Delhi High Court Allows Court Fee Refund Application In Commercial Suit After NCLT Imposes Interim Moratorium On Defendants

The Delhi High Court has ordered to refund court fee to a plaintiff in a commercial suit after interim moratorium was imposed on the defendants by National Company Law Tribunal in Mumbai under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.Expanding the scope of section 16 of Court Fees Act, 1870, Justice Yashwant Varma said:“The Court notes that once personal insolvency has commenced in terms of...

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....