Category: Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court Exercises Long-Arm Jurisdiction, Directs Facebook, YouTube, Google And Twitter To Take Down Content Globally.

Source – mondaq.com 1. INTRODUCTION A Single Judge bench of the Delhi High Court (the “High Court“) on October 23, 2019 held that Indian courts can issue orders to internet intermediaries like Facebook Inc. (“Facebook“), Google Inc. (“Google“), and Twitter International Company (“Twitter“) to take down defamatory content published by users on the intermediaries’ platforms on

Has the Delhi High Court effectively asked intermediaries to track user location data?

Source – medianama.com On 23rd October, 2019 the Delhi High Court passed a judgement on whether content take-down and blocking orders passed by it would be global in nature or would they be limited to operating in the territory of India. The court concluded that for content which was uploaded from India, they could direct global takedowns and

Delhi High Court rejects Centre’s plea seeking clarification on order not to act against lawyers.

Source – scroll.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea filed by the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking a clarification on the court’s November 3 order on the clash between police personnel and lawyers at the Tis Hazari court complex in New Delhi, ANI reported. The High Court had on November 3 ordered that no

Lawyers of Delhi HC, district courts abstain from work to protest against clash with police.

Source – moneycontrol.com Advocates in the Delhi High Court and all district courts here abstained from judicial work on Monday protesting against the clash between lawyers and police in the Tis Hazari court complex on Saturday. The lawyers did not participate and appeared in court proceedings and only proxy counsels took next date of hearing

Delhi High Court to hear four petitions, including one by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, seeking framing of Uniform Civil Code.

Source – firstpost.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday clubbed together all petitions seeking framing of a uniform civil code (UCC), as provided for under Article 44 of the Constitution, to promote national integration as well as gender justice, equality and dignity of women. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C