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Chief secy assault: Delhi court rejects AAP’s plea to curb police’s media leaks
A city court dismissed a plea filed by AAP MLAs seeking to restrain the Delhi police from leaking any information on the chief secretary assault case to the media.
Updated on Aug 25, 2018 07:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Will declare results of 63 students with short attendance: DU tells court
Several students had knocked the court’s door DU’s decision restraining students from taking exams due to short attendance.
Published on Aug 25, 2018 04:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Don’t wait for crowds to turn violent: Delhi court tells police
The court said police should not wait for the crowds to turn violent but put mechanisms in place to prevent gatherings that have the potential to turn violent.
Updated on Aug 23, 2018 08:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
CCTVs in schools: Password of footage will be given to parents only, says Delhi govt
Sanjoy Ghose, standing counsel for the Delhi government, made the submission before a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and justice V Kameswar Rao while they were hearing a petition which had challenged the move of the Delhi government to install CCTVs in classrooms.
Updated on Aug 22, 2018 02:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi high court restrains NBCC from handing over commercial space in East Kidwai Nagar
Putting an interim stay on allotment, Justice Vibhu Bhakru of Delhi high court observed that there was no clarity on how the requirement for water would be met and also sought to know whether adequate arrangements had been made to handle traffic in the area.
Updated on Aug 22, 2018 01:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi high court turns down plea challenging minimum marriage age
The Delhi high court was hearing a case regarding an inter-caste marriage wherein the couple, both 19 years old, feared harm.
Published on Aug 21, 2018 04:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
EIA report on south Delhi govt colony revamp plagiarised, high court told
The court, however, allowed National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) to secure the area to avoid any untoward incident.
Published on Aug 17, 2018 04:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Woman can’t stay at in-laws’ house if she mistreats them: Delhi high court
The Delhi Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Rules, 2016, entitled a senior citizen to seek eviction of his son, daughter or his legal heirs on account of ill-treatment but excluded the daughter-in-law.
Updated on Aug 10, 2018 06:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi high court decriminalises begging, says provisions violate rights of vulnerable people
The Delhi high court on Wednesday decriminalised begging, striking down as “unconstitutional” the provisions which made it an offence. The court also said that criminalising begging violates the most fundamental rights of some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Updated on Aug 09, 2018 06:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi high court quashes AAP govt’s notification fixing higher minimum wages for workers
The minimum wages of unskilled workers increased from ₹9,724 to ₹13,350 per month, for semi-skilled workers from ₹10,764 to ₹14,698 and for skilled labourers from ₹11,830 to ₹16,182.
Updated on Aug 05, 2018 09:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi HC defers JNU panel’s proceedings in harassment complaint against 2 educators
The plea, by a former student, said that the members of the committee inquiring into the complaint are persons and officials who have been appointed by one of the two top educators against whom the complaint has been made, thus rendering the committee inherently biased.
Updated on Aug 03, 2018 03:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi HC says bureaucrats not officials of L-G, pulls up AAP govt lawyer
The remark by Delhi HC came during a hearing about notification of the new jail manual when the Delhi government lawyer, Rahul Mehra,told the court that the amended jail manual will be notified through the L-G and after intimating him.
Updated on Aug 03, 2018 03:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
More than 1 lakh illegal e-rickshaws ply on Delhi’s roads
The traffic department told the court that action has been taken against over 200,000 e-rickshaws in Delhi.
Updated on Aug 02, 2018 07:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Closure of 110-year-old Delhi Flying Club leaves 85 students in the lurch
The club, which operated out of the Safdarjung airport, shut down on June 25 after the management gave an undertaking before the Delhi high court that they would vacate the premises, having failed to pay licensing fee to the Airports Authority of India.
Updated on Jul 31, 2018 01:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Car dealers cannot use public roads as parking spaces: Delhi HC
The Delhi high court’s direction came after an affidavit filed by the DCP traffic, central range, listed names of cars dealers and motor vehicle dealers, who continue to park their vehicles for sale outside their shops on the roads.
Published on Jul 31, 2018 12:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Drinking in Saket court chambers may lead to eviction of lawyers
Saket Bar Association secretary Dhir Singh Kasana said, “Whiskey has been banned in the complex and any person found guilty of possessing alcohol will be asked to vacate the chamber.”
Updated on Jul 30, 2018 09:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Rajesh Ahuja/Richa Banka, New Delhi
Trust judiciary to resolve judges’ differences, says Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad credited the NDA government with providing funds to judiciary for development of infrastructure.
Updated on Jul 25, 2018 11:37 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Richa Banka
Delhi HC sets aside penalty imposed on Kanhaiya Kumar by JNU
The Rs 10,000 fine was imposed on Kanhaiya Kumar by the appellate authority in connection with the incident in which slogans were allegedly raised at the event relating to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s hanging.
Updated on Jul 21, 2018 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Sacred Games’ English subtitles changed, Netflix tells HC
Netflix has informed the Delhi High Court that it has made changes to the controversial English subtitles for Sacred Games.
Updated on Jul 19, 2018 08:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Richa Banka, New Delhi
Number plates must for VVIP vehicles including President, says Delhi high court
A bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar said every vehicle has to comply with the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and display the number plates
Updated on Jul 18, 2018 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
‘Shocking state of affairs every year’: Delhi HC slams authorities over waterlogging
On Friday, heavy rains lashed Delhi affecting traffic at various intersections and led to waterlogging on several roads.
Updated on Jul 17, 2018 11:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Sacred Games actors cannot be held liable for dialogues, says Delhi HC
A petition was file against Netflix’s web series Sacred Games seeking removal of remarks made against former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Updated on Jul 16, 2018 06:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi high court asks chief secretary Anshu Prakash to appear before Assembly committee
Delhi chief secretary Anshu Prakash and two other bureaucrats had been issued a notice by the assembly for skipping a meeting on February 20.
Updated on Jul 13, 2018 10:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi HC seeks response from Centre, AIIMS after acid attack victim alleges bias
The Delhi high court on Friday sought the response of the Central government and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on a plea by an acid attack victim who has alleged that the institute had prohibited her from applying for the post of nursing officer, thereby violating the Disability Act, 2016.
Updated on Jul 07, 2018 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi HC asks CPWD to provide list of trees planted by dignitaries at Rajghat
The court’s order came while hearing a plea filed by Shyam Narayan Chouksey, who alleged that Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial was not being properly maintained and asked about the number of trees planted and whether they are alive.
Updated on Jul 05, 2018 03:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Confusion over status of Delhi high court’s August ruling on L-G-AAP tussle
The Delhi high court’s August 2016 judgment declared the L-G was the administrative head of the national Capital and was not bound by the ‘aid and advice’ of the council of ministers.
Updated on Jul 05, 2018 10:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Rebel AAP leader Kapil Mishra sues Arvind Kejriwal for low attendance in Delhi assembly
Rebel AAP MLA Kapil Mishra’s plea, which was urgently admitted in the high court, claimed that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was present only seven times in 2017 although the assembly had 27 sessions.
Updated on Jun 11, 2018 06:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Delhi HC frees Slovenian national level shooter detained for ‘gun-running’
According to his plea, Boris Sobotic Mikolic came to India along with two Indians in April 2017. The plea said that the trio was detained by the DRI on the exit gate of IGI airport despite not possessing any arms and ammunition.
Published on Jun 07, 2018 05:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Report in HC says inmates at Delhi’s de-addiction centres sexually assaulted
The report submitted in Delhi High Court after inspection of 124 de-addiction centres, was described as most shocking by the bench
Updated on Jun 02, 2018 10:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
Aadhaar has equal or more value than civic body certificates, says Delhi high court
The Delhi high court’s ruling comes while it was deciding on an appeal by a person who was sentenced to life imprisonment for sodomising a six-year-old boy.
Published on Jun 01, 2018 10:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Richa Banka
