Tag: Delhi High Court

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday acquitted “Peepli Live” co-director Mahmood Farooqui, accused of rape by an American woman, giving him benefit of doubt in the case. Justice Ashutosh Kumar set aside the trial court order convicting Farooqui and sentencing him to seven years jail in August last year. The court ordered Superintendent, […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will announce the Class 12 results on Sunday, the board said on Friday. The results will be announced online and can be accessed on — www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in The results are coming out after an ongoing controversy over the board’s moderation policy. The CBSE had […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said on Friday that it will move Delhi High Court against an arbitration tribunal’s order asking it to pay Rs 2,950 crore to Delhi Airport Metro Express (DAMEPL) in a case concerning the Delhi airport express line. “In connection with the Arbitration Award issued on May 11, […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Young Indian Pvt Ltd (YI), of which Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi are the main stakeholders, challenging Income Tax notices served to the company — clearing the decks for an IT probe. The case stems from a […]

New Delhi: Delhi University has decided to move the Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order that directed the varsity to grant monthly pension to over 300 teachers. The decision was taken at the executive council meeting of the university yesterday. The emergent meeting was primarily organised to discuss issues pertaining to general provident […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the Reserve Bank of India’s application opposing the enforcement of an arbitral award in the Tata-NTT Docomo case. Justice S. Muralidhar cleared the way for enforcing the $1.17 billion arbitral award by the London Court of International Arbitration, to settle a two-year-old dispute between Tata and […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Gautam Navlakha, one of the five rights activists arrested in connection with Koregaon-Bhima case, to be freed from the house arrest. The high court granted him the relief saying that the Supreme Court last week had given him the liberty to approach the appropriate forum within […]

The media houses who were issued notices for revealing the identity of the eight-year-old Kathua rape victim, on Wednesday apologised before the Delhi High Court and were directed to pay Rs 10 lakh each to the Jammu and Kashmir Victim Compensation Fund. Advocates representing media houses told the court that the mistake of revealing the […]

New Delhi: Terming the records pertaining to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination as part of India’s “cultural heritage”, the Delhi High Court has asked the Centre how it intends to collect and maintain the entire case information as was directed by transparency panel CIC. The poser by Justice Vibhu Bakhru came while hearing a plea by the […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today exempted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from personal appearance before a trial court on December 11 in a criminal defamation complaint filed by Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Chandra. A bench of Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal also issued notice to Delhi Police and Chandra seeking their response on the chief […]

New Delhi: Visually impaired persons are a lot affected and facing problems by the newly introduced currency notes and coins, the Delhi High Court observed on Friday and issued notice to the government and the RBI. The court said the matter was of “very grave public interest” and should be addressed seriously. A number of […]

New Delhi: The Delhi University is behaving like an ostrich by “sticking its head in the sand” instead of taking action against a law student accused of intimidating teachers on several occasions, Delhi High Court said today. “There is complete lawlessness and you have stuck your head in the sand like an ostrich,” a bench […]

New Delhi: Several students, preparing for various competitive exams, have approached the Delhi High Court seeking to be heard on the issue of running of coaching centres from residential units, saying any decision in the matter would affect their future. The students, studying at various coaching centres in Outram Lines, Kingsway Camp and Mukherjee Nagar […]

New Delhi: Delhiiites can soon hope to take the help of an application on their smartphones to locate a washroom in the city to attend urgent call of nature. The Delhi High Court, which found it difficult to ascertain the location of public toilets in the city on perusing the response of civic bodies, directed […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed its information officer to disclose under the RTI, the marks awarded by an interview panel to candidates of Delhi Higher Judicial Service (DHJS) examination held in 2013. The court said when the results of the examination have been placed in public domain, there was no question of […]