Category: Delhi High Court

Source – hindustantimes.com A Delhi court is likely to pronounce its verdict on December 16 on the alleged kidnapping and rape of a woman by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao in 2017. District judge Dharmesh Sharma adjourned the matter for further proceedings after the completion of the final arguments and

Source – indialegallive.com Delhi High Court has convicted two men for raping a 13 year old girl, over two decades after the incident. Setting aside trial court’s order the Delhi High Court convicted them for raping a minor girl and abetting the crime respectively. Court found the medical evidence corroborated the victim’s testimony. A trail

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi Police have decided to make protesters pay for damages to properties during agitations against the Citizenship (Amended) Act, or CAA, in the national capital. As a first step, the city police have approached the Delhi High Court through its Registrar General to appoint a Claims Commissioner to estimate the damages

Source – financialexpress.com Several political bigwigs, senior officials and corporates suffered setbacks in the Delhi High Court in 2019 — be it Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case and P Chidambaram in the INX Media case, or the CBI top brass for ugly infighting or scam tainted Indiabulls and Bhushan Steel. The high court order denying anticipatory bail

Source – financialexpress.com The year saw them dealing with several other cases involving big names like Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi; ex-BBP MLA Barjesh Thakur; former Union minister MJ Akbar; Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath; and former promoters of Fortis Healthcare Malvinder and Shivinder Singh. From

Source – hindustantimes.com The #MeToo movement that has gripped India since last year arose in response to the failure of institutionalised due process. It was found that repeatedly, the structures that had been put in place to deal with issues of sexual harassment were not fit for the purpose: Not only were they failing to

Source – pagalguy.com Delhi High Court is located in the state of Delhi and as a result, is always overburdened with legal matters. In order to manage its workload efficiently and ensure speedy delivery of justice, Delhi High Court  conducts recruitment drives periodically. Under the latest Delhi High Court Higher Judicial Services Recruitment 2020, applications

Source – hindustantimes.com A mother, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly strangulating her baby hours after her birth as she was a girl, has got relief from the Supreme Court which acquitted her by saying that it was “totally unnatural” for the woman to kill her own child. The apex court,

Source – indianexpress.com Observing that the usage of common Urdu words such as kitaab, ilzaam and hawaalat may be permissible, but “obscure and archaic expressions can find no place in an FIR”, the Delhi High Court Thursday directed Delhi Police to upload on its website the list of archaic Urdu and Persian words which are used in registering FIRs.

Source – thehindu.com The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea which alleged that telecom services were disrupted in various parts of the national capital during the anti-citizenship law protests in violation of rules. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar declined to entertain the PIL after Additional Solicitor General