Delhi High Court Drops Suo Moto Contempt Action Against Income Tax Officer For Allegedly Passing Unreasoned Order

The Delhi High Court has dropped the civil contempt proceedings initiated against a Principal Commissioner of Income Tax (now retired) six years ago, for alleged wilful disobedience of its order to give reasons for insisting an assessee to deposit 20% demand in appeal.The proceedings were initiated suo moto in 2019 on a prima facie opinion but on a closer scrutiny, Justice Vikas Mahajan now...

Karisma Kapoor's Children Question Veracity Of Father Sunjay Kapur's Will Before Delhi High Court, Claim It Is Forged

Karisma Kapoor's children told the Delhi High Court on Thursday (October 9) that it was highly suspicious that a well educated man like their father the late Sunjay Kapur would not inform the executor of the purported will that she had been appointed as an executor.This, the plaintiffs said, is an unnatural conduct by their late father, adding that the Will is a forged document indicating...

Delhi High Court Restrains Online Wholesaler From Infringing Trademark Of Agro-Chemical Company 'Dhanuka'

The Delhi High Court has granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction, restraining an online wholesaler from infringing the trademark of agro-chemical company Dhanuka Agritech.Justice Tejas Karia observed that the alleged acts attributed to the Defendants are likely to cause confusion in the course of trade of the Plaintiffs, such that the consumers may associate the Infringing Products with...

NDPS Act | Failure To Videograph Chance Recovery Doesn't Vitiate Seizure: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that failure to videograph or produce CCTV footage of a chance recovery does not vitiate seizure of alleged contraband from an accused.Though the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 does not mandate video-recording of seizure, the same has become mandatory with the introduction of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.Even the...

Delhi High Court Quashes Criminal Proceedings Against Lawyer For Running Office From Basement After 22 Yrs

After a 22 year long battle, the Delhi High Court quashed the criminal complaint and consequent proceedings initiated against a lawyer for running his offices from the basement of a residential building in the city.In doing so, Justice Neena Bansal Krishna cited Clause 10 of the Master Development Plan 2001, which permits non-residential use of residential premises.It stipulates that a...

Delhi High Court Dismisses Review Petition Seeking To Scrap EVMs And Conduct General Elections Through Ballot Papers

The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected a plea for review of its earlier order dismissing a PIL seeking a direction on the Union Government and Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct general elections through ballot papers and not electronic voting machines (EVMs).A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela dismissed the review petition filed...

Indian Stamp Act | Sisters Relinquishing Property Rights In Favour Of Co-Owner Brother Is Not 'Gift': Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that relinquishment of rights in a property by the sisters (co-owners) in favour of their brother (another co-owner) cannot be said to be a Gift for the purposes of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.A division bench comprising Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar held thus while dealing with an appeal preferred by a brother, following impounding of...

Delhi High Court Quashes Dowry Harassment FIR Filed After Husband's Suicide Within 40 Days Of Marriage

The Delhi High Court has quashed a dowry harassment and cruelty FIR registered by a woman against her in-laws, following the suicide of her husband barely 40 days after their marriage.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna observed that it was a case of vague allegations and abuse of power, and it will not be in the interest of justice to let the criminal proceedings continue. The sister in law, father...

Delhi High Court Orders ECI To Allot Common Symbol To Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh To Contest Bihar Assembly Polls

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to allot a common symbol to Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh (ABJS) to contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly Polls. Justice Mini Pushkarna directed the party to submit an application to the ECI for allotment of common symbol as mandated under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order. “…it is directed...

[JJ Act] Document Of Higher Preference For Determining Victim's Age Not 'Gospel Truth' When Contents Are Shaky: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the document of higher preference for determining a victim's age under the Juvenile Justice Act is not to be taken as a “gospel truth” when its contents are shaky and stand falsified. “There is no absolute rule that the document, having higher preference, for age determination of child under Juvenile Justice Act has to be taken as a gospel truth, even...

Sale, Purchase Or Lease Of Other Properties By Landlord Not An Impediment To Seek Eviction Of Tenant For Bonafide Need: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that sale/ purchase/ lease of other properties by a landlord are not an impediment for him to seek eviction of tenants under Section 14(1)(e) of the Delhi Rent Control Act 1958, for bonafide use.Justice Saurabh Banerjee observed,“The sale of certain premises by the landlord before filing of the eviction petition under Section 14(1)(e) of the DRC Act are...

Apprising Interested Party Of Company's Ongoing Mismanagement Or Disputes Not Defamation: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that any communication made in the context of existing legal disputes and for protection of a company's financial interests falls within the protective ambit of the defamation law. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna said that to allow criminal prosecution under defamation to proceed in case where the dispute is evidently civil and commercial in nature, would be...