Delhi High Court Issues Directions To Strengthen RBI Ombudsman Complaint System, Calls For Safeguards To Avoid Misuse

The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued directions to strengthen the system to deal with customer complaints by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Ombudsman.Justice Prathiba M Singh said that the intent of all financial regulatory mechanisms, including banks, financial institutions and regulators, must be to put in place adequate safeguards to avoid misuse, take stringent actions against...

Delhi High Court Quashes Patent Office Order, Sends Trident's 'Air Rich Yarn' Patent Plea Back For Review

The Delhi High Court has overturned a Patent Office decision that refused Trident Limited a patent for its “air rich” yarn and fabric technology. The court said the Patent Office failed to properly examine the key feature of the invention, which is the “homogeneous distribution of pores across the radial cross-section of yarn”, and had not correctly assessed obviousness under...

Marketing For Foreign University Prima Facie Constitutes 'Export Of Services'; Entitled To GST Refund: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court recently said that a private consultancy providing marketing services to a foreign university is prima facie covered by its decision in Delhi Goods and Service Tax DGST v. Global Opportunities Private Limited (2025).Vide the said decision, the division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Shail Jain had held that foreign education consultancy services to students...

Delhi High Court Upholds GST Notice Based On Income Tax Intelligence; Cautions Dept Against AI-Generated Fake Citations In SCN

The Delhi High Court in a writ petition has upheld Show Cause Notice (SCN) issued by the GST Department which was based on an intelligence, by the Income Tax Department The Division Bench, comprising Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice Shail Jain held the challenge to the SCN as 'premature' and noted existence of a clandestine server that revealed a parallel accounting system and...

'High Threshold For Defamation, Must Prove Malice': Netflix Opposes In Delhi High Court Sameer Wankhede's Plea To Restrain Aryan Khan's Series

Netflix Entertainment on Thursday opposed before the Delhi High Court the defamation suit filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede over his allegedly defamatory portrayal in the Netflix series “Ba***ds of Bollywood” directed by Aryan Khan Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayyar appearing for the OTT platform submitted before Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav that the threshold of defamation in such...

Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Actor Ajay Devgn, Orders Take Down Of Obscene Content

The Delhi High Court on Thursday passed an interim order protecting the personality rights of bollywood actor Ajay Devgn.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora restrained the defendants from using the personality traits of the actor, including his images and other personal elements, without his consent.The defendants are also refrained from misusing the actor's personality traits through use...

Long-Pending GST Refund Appeals Hurt Businesses: Delhi High Court To Appellate Body

The Delhi High Court has observed that long pendency of GST appeals seeking tax refund can hurt financial front of businesses.A division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Shail Jain made the observation while dealing the plea of a foreign education consultancy company, whose appeals for tax refund have been pending since four long years.The High Court had recently held that...

Apple Moves Delhi High Court Against CCI's 'Global Turnover' Penalty Rule; Claims Exposure To $38 Billion Penalty

Apple INC has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the amendment to the Competition Act, 2002, allowing the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to impose penalties based on a company's global turnover.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela will be hearing the matter on December 03. Apple has challenged the 2023 amendment to...

S.128A Customs Act | Six-Month Timeline To Decide Appeals Not Mandatory, But Must Apply Where Possible: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that though Section 128A(4A) of the Customs Act, 1962 prescribes that appeals “shall” be decided within six months, the timeline is applicable only where it is possible to do so.Perusing the language in which the provision is couched, a division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Shail Jain observed,“...it uses the word 'shall'. However, the provision...

Delhi High Court Rejects Philips' Plea For Perjury Action Against Ex-Employee In Software Piracy Case

The Delhi High Court has refused to initiate perjury proceedings against a former Philips employee, holding that Philips had not produced the kind of clear and unquestionable evidence required for criminal action. The ruling came in a copyright and trade secret dispute involving Philips' medical imaging software “IntelliSpace Portal” (ISP). In a judgment dated November 24, 2025,...

Settlement With Concessionaire Doesn't Erase NHAI's Role In Dispute: Delhi High Court Dismisses Substitution Petition

The Delhi High Court refused to interfere with an arbitral tribunal's order rejecting the plea of National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) to substitute itself with a special purpose vehicle (SPV) in an ongoing arbitration initiated by CFM Asset Reconstruction Pvt. Ltd. (CFM ARC). The court held that the substitution could prejudice claimants' rights and that court's...

Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Tesla Inc, Extends Bar on Indian Company's Use of 'Tesla' Marks In EV Market

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted relief to the U.S.-based electric vehicle company Tesla Inc. by directing that the undertaking earlier given by the India-based Tesla Power India Pvt. Ltd., stating that it will not manufacture or market electric vehicles or use any mark deceptively similar to 'Tesla' for EVs, shall continue until the trademark infringement suit is finally decided.In...