Delhi High Court Orders Take Down Of Alleged Deepfake Video On Taj Lake Palace Udaipur

The Delhi High Court recently ordered take down of an alleged AI generated deepfake video, alleging poisoning of guests by employees of the renowned hotel Taj Lake Palace in Udaipur.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora observed that contents of the video are prima facie false and directly infringes upon the hotel's reputation.The suit was filed by Tata Group's Indian Hotels Company Limited...

Delhi High Court Upholds UIDAI Decision To Diqualify 'Abnormally Low' Financial Bid From Tender For Aadhaar Audit & Quality Check

The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with UIDAI's decision to reject the lowest financial bid submitted by Writer Business Services Pvt. Ltd for audit and quality check of Aadhar applications.The company has been executing previous contracts with Unique Identification Authority of India for the very same task, for the last six years.However, this time, the division bench of Chief...

Company Court Can't Shield Guarantors From Recovery Proceedings Once Liquidation Attains Finality: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that once a final winding up order has been passed against a Company and the Official Liquidator has taken charge, the Company Court is not required to come to the aid of guarantors so as to shield them from recovery proceedings initiated by creditors.A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar observed,“The purpose of...

Victims Of False Police Complaint Can Institute Proceedings U/S 211 IPC, Bar Under S.195 CrPC Won't Apply: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a private individual who is falsely accused in a police complaint can himself initiate proceedings against the accused under Section 211 IPC, without having to get the action initiated by the court.For context, Section 211 criminalises the act of instituting criminal proceedings on false charges, with intent to cause injury and with knowledge that there is...

Delhi High Court Suspends Sentence Of Woman Convict After 10 Years In Jail, Cites Welfare Of Her Three Minor Children

The Delhi High Court has suspended the life sentence of a woman, convicted for murder of her alleged paramour, citing concerns about the well being of her three children.While two children resided with her aged parents, her third two-years old child remained with her in prison.“Appellant is a lady and that her one child, who is barely two years old, is with her in the prison, and her...

Delhi High Court Enhances Compensation For Acquisition Of Lands Adjoining Yamuna River After 32 Years

The Delhi High Court recently enhanced the compensation for land acquisition payable with respect to flood-prone Kilokari, Nangli Razapur, Khizrabad and Garhi Mendu areas of the national capital.In doing so, Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju in her 171-page order observed that the potentiality of these areas has to be seen not from actual use but to what use they can be put in foreseeable...

Delhi High Court Allows Third Medical Exam Of UPSC Aspirant, Cites Large Disparity In Disability Assessed By Different Boards

The Delhi High Court has paved the way for a third medical examination of a UPSC aspirant, claiming to have more than 40% hearing disability, after a material difference emerged in the reports prepared by AIIMS and Army Hospital.While the aspirant contended that there is no stipulated procedure by which he could be subjected to a third medical examination, a division bench of Justices...

Questioning Husband's Legitimacy, Casting Aspersions On His Mother Amounts To Mental Cruelty: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that questioning husband's legitimacy by calling him bastard and making reprehensible allegations against his mother constitute matrimonial cruelty, a ground for divorce.A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar thus upheld the divorce decree granted by the family court in favour of Respondent-husband.Appellant-wife had...

Does Section 498A IPC Apply To Same Sex Relationships? Delhi High Court To Consider

The Delhi High Court is set to consider whether the offence of cruelty punishable under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, 1860, applies to same sex couples or relationships.Justice Sanjeev Narula issued notice on a plea filed by one Simmi Patwa, claiming that the provision cannot apply to same sex couples. The petitioner submits that the primary requirement to invoke Section 498A is that...

Delhi High Court Bars Lawyer From Appearing Online, Says Switching Off Video Citing Parallel Hearing Against VC Rules

The Delhi High Court has barred a woman lawyer from appearing before it through video conferencing, noting that she switched off her camera and muted herself citing parallel ongoing hearing which is against the VC Rules. Justice Tejas Karia passed the order and barred the lawyer from appearing before his court through VC henceforth. “….learned Counsel for Defendant Nos. 1 and 2,...

Reconstitute Advocates' Welfare Fund Trust Committee Expeditiously: High Court To Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to take steps to reconstitute the Committee of the Advocates' Welfare Fund Trust expeditiously. Justice Sachin Datta issued notice on a plea filed by wife of a lawyer seeking directions on the Bar Council of Delhi to forthwith release ex-gratia financial assistance from the Advocates' Welfare Fund to her husband to undergo...

Housewife Landlady Can Require Tenanted Premises For Husband's Welfare, Familial Duties: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that a landlord being the “housewife landlady” can require the tenanted premises from the tenant for husband's welfare and family duties, which would qualified as “bona fide requirement.”While dealing with an eviction plea matter, Justice Saurabh Banerjee said that the fact that the husband was elder and dependent on the landlady wife was sufficient...