Delhi High Court
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...
Continue Initiating Prosecution, Carrying Out Regular Raids Against Those Selling Contaminated Water Or Beverages: Delhi High Court To MCD
The Delhi High Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to continue initiating prosecution and carrying out regular raids against individuals who are selling contaminated water or beverages like shikanji and soda water on the roadside.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad also directed the civic body to ensure that the hawkers...
Delhi High Court Upholds CIC Order Denying Information To 2006 Mumbai Train Blast Convict On Documents Related To UAPA Ban On ‘Indian Mujahideen’
The Delhi High Court has upheld an order passed by the Central Information Commission denying information under Right to Information Act to a death row convict seeking documents related to the ban on Indian Mujahideen under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.Justice Prathiba M Singh dismissed the plea of Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddique, a death row convict in Mumbai Train Blast case...
High Court Finds Delhi Govt’s Chief And Labour Secretaries Guilty Of Contempt Of Court Over Failure To Enhance Minimum Wages Of Bus Staffers
The Delhi High Court has found the Delhi Government’s Chief Secretary, Secretary of Labour and Special Commissioner of Transport guilty of contempt of court for wilfully disobeying a judicial order passed in 2017 directing them to enhance the minimum wages of staff for the operation and maintenance of buses plying in the national capital. Justice Rekha Palli said that the officials...
Pressing Rape Charges In Matrimonial Cases Against Husband, His Family Members Which Are Later Settled Needs To Be Curbed: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that the act of pressing rape charges in matrimonial cases by the complainant against the husband and his family members which are later settled needs to be curbed. Justice Yogesh Khanna noted that serious offence of rape under section 376 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 is being pressed during investigation of cases by complainants in a matrimonial lis against...
Deceptively Similar To Mankind's Mark: Delhi High Court Directs Removal Of ‘Nikind’ Mark From Trademarks Register
The Delhi High Court has directed removal of a registered “Nikind” mark from the register of trademarks observing that it was identical and deceptively similar to “Nimekind” mark owned by Indian pharmaceutical and healthcare products company Mankind Pharma Limited.Justice Amit Bansal observed that the adoption and use of the trademark “Nikind” by a trading entity is very similar...
‘Requires Prioritization’: Delhi High Court To Hear On July 18 Plea Against Early Release Of Ansal Brothers In Uphaar Fire Evidence Tampering Case
The Delhi High Court will hear on July 18 the petition moved by Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy challenging a Trial Court order releasing real estate barons Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal as against the jail term already undergone by them, in the evidence tampering case connected to the Uphaar fire tragedy that happened in the year 1997.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani allowed the...
Either Party To Marriage Can Marry Again If No Appeal Filed Against Ex-Parte Divorce Decree Within Limitation Period: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that either party to a marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, can marry again if no appeal is filed against an ex-parte decree of divorce within the period of limitation. A division bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vikas Mahajan said that section 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act enables the parties to marry again only after the decree of divorce...