Tag: Delhi-High-Court

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected the claim of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in the December 16 gang-rape, that he was a juvenile at the time of the crime. The court said that it cannot determine the age claim at this stage. Justice Suresh Kait, while rejecting the

Source – livemint.com NEW DELHI : Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to Centre, Delhi government and Delhi Police and asked them to file affidavits on pleas seeking to appoint a fact finding committee to inquire into the police action against the Jamia Milia Islamia university students. A bench headed by Chief Justice DN Patel

Source – ndtv.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its decision on a plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia seeking quashing of a defamation complaint against them by BJP leader Vijender Gupta. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar, after hearing arguments on behalf of Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, said

Source – indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court Monday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for illegally taking into custody an inter-faith couple from the JNU campus in July 2018 and assaulting the husband. It also directed the state DGP to write a letter apologising “for the conduct of his police officials”. A bench of Justice

Source – ndtv.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea filed by advocates seeking disciplinary action against police personnel who sat on protest after the lawyers-police clash at Tis Hazari court complex and asked them to approach the Delhi High Court for relief. The top court said the high court is

Source – indiatoday.in The mother of the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder victim, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, on Friday moved the Supreme Court to oppose a review plea by one of the four men sentenced to death in the case. Akshay Kumar’s plea, seeking a review of the apex court’s 2017 verdict giving him

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: The JNU has moved the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against its students and the police for allegedly violating a court order barring protests within 100 metres of the university’s administrative block. The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), in its plea, has claimed that the students “grossly violated” the August 9,

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the office of Chief Justice comes under the transparency law, the Right to Information (RTI) Act, adding that judicial independence cannot be attained by holding back information. ‘Judicial independence and accountability go hand in hand…Transparency strengthens independence,” said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, who heads the five-judge bench.

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 – indiatvnews.com The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the AAP government and the prison authorities here to ensure that convicts and undertrials are provided only those items in jail which are permissible under the rules and “nothing extra”. The direction by a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari