Tag: Delhi High Court

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought response of the Centre and Odisha government on Vedanta Ltd’s plea against a rule that mandates that mining lessees have to pay contributions to district mineral foundations. Vedanta Ltd, a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta group, has challenged Rule 3 of the Mines and Mineral (Contribution to District […]

Delhi High Court today sought response of the city police on a woman’s plea seeking cancellation of bail of a man accused of raping a female canine. Justice Manmohan Singh issued notice to Delhi Police and 55-year-old accused Shiv Kumar seeking their replies by April 16 on the plea of the woman, who claims to […]

Jindal Steel and Power Ltd today denied that it has made any false statement before the Delhi High Court over changing the end-use of two coal blocks in Odisha and Chhattisgarh which had been alloted to it

New Delhi: Delhi High Court today asked how the coal ordinance gave government the power to change the end-use of coal blocks and questioned the “tearing hurry” to hold their auction. It also sought to know whether the auction process could be kept on hold till it examines the issues raised by JSPL and its […]

The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Competition Commission of India (CCI) notice asking Facebook and WhatsApp to furnish certain information in relation to a probe ordered by it into the instant messaging app's new privacy policy.

New Delhi: A day after Jitender Singh Tomar resigned as Delhi’s law minister after being arrested over his alleged fake degree, the AAP government on yesterday decided to induct Kapil Mishra as his successor. Tomar, remanded to four-day’s police custody after his dramatic arrest on Tuesday, was taken to Uttar Pradesh on yesterday to probe […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today refused to stay Delhi Commission for Women’s (DCW) summons for Kumar Vishwas issued on a volunteer’s complaint alleging that her life was ruined since he refused to deny “rumours” over their alleged affair. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said he cannot pass any order until the woman, who filed the […]

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on city police and their Odisha counterpart for the inability to trace a girl who is missing since 2010 after being brought here by a placement agency

The Delhi High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of laws empowering the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to conduct revenue audits of private telecom firms

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sentenced Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav to 30 years in prison for the murder of Nitish Katara, a friend of Vikas Yadav’s sister. But a special bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice J.R. Midha, however, rejected the prosecution’s plea to award death penalty to the […]

The central government told the Delhi High Court today that Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai has been "involved in anti-national activities" and that was why she was offloaded January 11 at the airport here

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday dismissed a PIL filed against Raj Kumar Hirani directed and Aamir Khan starrer film “PK”, saying “the film was not offensive”. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw refused to entertain the plea which sought ban on the film for alleged derogatory remarks […]

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that reports regarding security breach of data related to Aadhaar is incorrect and misleading as the strongest encryption technology has been used to store data which is impossible to decrypt. “The technology used is 2048-bit encryption, which is the […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of National Herald newspaper, to vacate its Herald House premises here. The AJL had challenged the Centre’s decision asking it to vacate, but a Division Bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V. Kameswar Rao rejected that plea, directing it […]

New Delhi: Two youngsters accused of keeping a minor girl in illegal confinement, physically assaulting her and not paying her any wages for household work she did were told by a court on Tuesday to plant 50 trees each – and pay the victim Rs 150,000. According to Justice Najmi Waziri of the Delhi High […]