Delhi High Court
'Direct Nexus With Safety': Delhi High Court Seeks DGCA Stand On Plea To Implement Pilot Resting Norms
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 28) sought stand of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea challenging its decision to keep in abeyance the regulations on Flight Duty Time Limitations, which prescribe minimum resting time for pilots and flight crew members to ensure passenger safety.The plea states that the norms are meant to strengthen "fatigue management"...
Delhi High Court To Hear In April NIA's Plea Seeking Death Penalty For Yasin Malik
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 28) granted time to National Investigation Agency to submit its rejoinder to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik's reply in the agency's appeal seeking death penalty for Malik in a terror funding case. During the hearing, SPP Akshai Malik appearing for NIA, before a division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja sought some time...
'Childhood Not Lived On Screens': Delhi High Court Rejects 'Stereotypical' Tender Years Doctrine, Grants Custody To Father
The Delhi High Court has held that the long-standing "Tender Years Doctrine", which presumes that custody of young children should ordinarily vest with the mother, is rooted in "highly stereotypical" premises and is "no longer apposite" to contemporary custody adjudication.Observing that "childhood is not lived on screens", a Bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan...
Marriage Registration Not Proof Of Marital Harmony, Can't Be Used To Deny Mutual Divorce Before One Year: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that mere registration of marriage between two individuals cannot determine matrimonial harmony or their intention to cohabit together. “Registration of marriage is merely a statutory mandate, and by itself, cannot be determinative of matrimonial harmony, intention to cohabit, or the viability of the marital relationship,” a division bench comprising...
Attempt To Hoodwink Court: Delhi HC Rejects Anticipatory Bail Application Noting Parallel Plea Before Sessions Court
The Delhi High Court dismissed an anticipatory bail application after finding that the accused had filed parallel anticipatory bail pleas before two different courts, which were being heard on the same day, terming the conduct a "clear abuse of process in the name of liberty".A bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that there was no acceptable explanation for filing two anticipatory...
Supreme Court's 'Mihir Rajesh Shah' Ruling On Written Grounds Of Arrest Operates Prospectively: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that the Supreme Court's judgment in Mihir Rajesh Shah v. State of Maharashtra (2025), which mandates the furnishing of written grounds of arrest to an accused before remand in all offences, will operate prospectively and cannot be applied to arrests made prior to the date of the ruling.The Division Bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain thus dismissed...
Delhi High Court Directs MCD To Clear Hawkers From Anand Vihar ISBT, Orders Beautification Plan
The Delhi High Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to remove all hawkers and vendors from the congested area around the Anand Vihar ISBT, while permitting only 105 vendors, who were found eligible to vend through mobile carts and without any permanent structures.A Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice Madhu Jain said that the hawkers had created...
Delhi High Court Upholds Rule Allowing Childless Widow To Continue Family Pension After Remarriage
The Delhi High Court today upheld the constitutional validity of Rule 54 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, entitling a childless widow to continue to receive family pension after remarriage.A Division Bench comprising Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Amit Mahajan dismissed a writ petition filed by the parents of a deceased CRPF personnel seeking grant of family pension...
Departmental Findings Can't Substitute Primary Evidence In Criminal Trial: Delhi High Court Discharges Process Server In Forged Summons Case
The Delhi High Court has discharged a process server who was accused of fabricating a false service report to facilitate an ex parte divorce, holding that the material on record did not disclose "grave suspicion" against him to justify framing of charges.The Court ruled that findings in departmental proceedings cannot be elevated to substantive evidence in a criminal case, nor can prosecution...
Double Jeopardy Bars Enhanced Departmental Penalty After Conviction In Criminal Appeal: Delhi High Court
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Madhu Jain held that once a disciplinary authority has imposed a penalty based on a conviction, it cannot reopen the same incident to impose a harsher punishment merely because the criminal appeal results in a reduced sentence, as this violates the principle against double jeopardy. Background...
Delhi High Court Permits Direct Cash Transfer Of School Uniform Subsidy To EWS Students, Instead Of In-Kind Supply
The Delhi High Court on Friday permitted the Delhi Government to provide school uniform assistance to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Disadvantaged Group (DG) students in private schools through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), instead of supplying uniforms strictly in kind.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Subramonium Prasad modified an...
Cash For Query Row: Delhi High Court Grants Two Months' Time To Lokpal For Deciding Sanction Against Mahua Moitra
The Delhi High Court has allowed an application filed by Lokpal of India seeking more time to decide on granting sanction to the CBI, to file chargesheet against Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra in relation to the cash for query row.A division bench comprising Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar granted two months' time to Lokpal and clarified that no...