1100 Crore Arbitral Award? Delhi High Court Adjourns Enforcement Proceedings On Central Govt's Request Subject To Rs 50K Cost

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday imposed Rs. 50,000 cost on Central government for seeking repeated adjournments in a petition for enforcement of an arbitral award, allegedly having a monetary value of over Rs.1100 crores.The bench of Justice Prateek Jalan noted that the Union had sought another adjournment despite the objections of party seeking enforcement and the assurance given by the Union...

Haj Pilgrims Should Only Be Handled By Persons Not Accused Of 'Deceiving' Others: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that Hajis being very pious pilgrims should be handled only by persons who do not have allegations of swindling or deceiving people on them.Justice Subramonium Prasad said that the Haj Policy states that the Central Government has the right to debar the Haj Group Organizers (HGOs) against whom complaints have been received and who are involved with...

Delhi High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Release Of Undertrial Prisoners On Bail, Says Issue Pending Before Supreme Court

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation seeking issuance of guidelines for release of undertrial prisoners on bail under check of a judicial officer.A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora rejected the PIL moved by Gautam Kumar Laha, observing that the issue is pending before the Supreme Court and is...

PIL Before Delhi High Court To Allow Arrested Politicians To Campaign Through VC For Lok Sabha Polls 2024

A PIL has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking a direction upon the Election Commission of India (ECI) to develop a mechanism to ensure that arrested political leaders are allowed to campaign through VC for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024. The plea has been filed by Amarjeet Gupta, a final year law student and has been moved through Advocate Md. Imran Ahmad. A direction is also...

Delhi High Court Orders Expeditious Conclusion Of Magisterial Inquiry Into 'Custodial Death' Of 32-Yr-Old

The Delhi High Court has ordered expeditious conclusion of the magisterial enquiry into the death of a 32 year old man allegedly in the custody of police officials of Subhash Place police station. Sheikh Sahadat died on July 23 last year. His wife moved a plea seeking registration of FIR against the erring cops as well as to constitute Special Investigation Team for impartial investigation...

Lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai's Defamation Suit Against TMC Leader Mahua Moitra Withdrawn From Delhi High Court

Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai on Thursday withdrawn from the Delhi High Court his defamation suit against Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra.Dehadrai had sued Moitra for allegedly making defamatory statements against him on social media as well as print and electronic media.Advocate Raghav Awasthi appeared for Dehadrai and sought permission from the court to withdraw the suit, upon...

No Case Registered Against Man Who Called Mohd Zubair 'Jihadi' In Tweet: Delhi Police To High Court

The Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court that no case has been registered against the man who made an allegedly offensive tweet against Mohammed Zubair by calling him a “jihadi” in 2020.The tweet in question was made by one Jagdish Singh, who filed a complaint against Zubair and accused him of causing cyber sexual harassment of his grand-daughter.The Delhi Police has said that...

High Court's Intervention On Industrial Tribunal's Decision Is Restricted To Cases Of Perversity: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court division bench of Justice Rekha Palli and Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain held that the scope of intervention of the High Court is very limited in matters of factual findings made by Industrial Tribunals unless they were found to be perverse or based on no evidence.The High Court was adjudicating on the letters patent appeals filed by Delhi Doordarshan Kendra, which was accused...

'Supporter Of ISIS Ideology, Arranged Illegal Weapons': Delhi High Court Denies Bail To Accused In UAPA Case

The Delhi High Court yesterday denied regular bail to a 25 year old Kashmiri man booked under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, observing that he being a supporter of ideology of banned terrorist organization ISIS, arranged illegal weapons and was involved in providing other logistic support to its cadres.A division bench comprising Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Manoj Jain...

Income Threshold For Claiming Financial Aid Under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi Prima Facie Unreasonable: Delhi High Court

Initiating a suo motu case, the Delhi High Court has recently observed that prima facie, the threshold income for claiming benefit under the Central Government's Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) umbrella scheme is “not reasonable.”The scheme provides a one-time financial assistance to poor patients living below the State or Union Territory threshold poverty line and suffering...

Delhi High Court Upholds JNU's 80% Quota For Admission To B.A. (Hons) First-Year In Foreign Languages Course

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea challenging the decision of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to give 80% quota in the First Year of 3-year B.A. (Hons.) programme in Foreign Languages for the students who passed their class XII examination in the year of seeking admission or the previous year.The remaining 20% of the seats are given to all other candidates.Justice C Hari Shankar...

Hindu Woman Without Own Income Can Enjoy Property Given By Deceased Husband, But Can't Have Absolute Rights Over It: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that a Hindu woman without having her own income has complete rights to enjoy, throughout her lifetime, the property received by her from the deceased husband but cannot have “absolute rights” over it. “In the case of Hindu women, who may not have their own income, receiving a life estate given to them by their husbands—who may...