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Coaching centre deaths: HC dismisses plea seeking to restrain CBI from filing charge sheet

Delhi High Court dismissed a plea to restrain the CBI from filing charges in the drowning case of three IAS aspirants, citing lack of jurisdiction.

Security personnel outside Rau's IAS Study Circle. (HT File)
Updated on Sep 25, 2024 05:56 AM IST

HC: Man calling wife a parasite is an insult to womankind

The Delhi High Court emphasized a husband's duty to maintain his wife and children, rejecting claims of her being a "parasite" and upholding maintenance rights.

Court said a man cannot be absolved from his responsibility of maintaining his wife and children. (HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 25, 2024 05:40 AM IST

Delhi HC refuses to stay All India Tennis Association polls

Tennis players Somdev Devvarman and Purav Raja challenged the elections saying the AITA was conducting them in violation of the National Sports Development Code

The court said elections require a lot of preparation. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Published on Sep 24, 2024 03:18 PM IST

Can’t allow ‘embryo trade’: Delhi HC rejects plea

The plea said that the rule by restricting the use of unused gametes or embryos infringes upon the reproductive rights of the couple

The court expressed its unwillingness to entertain the petition saying that it would not interfere with the policy laid down by the state (File Photo)
Updated on Sep 24, 2024 05:04 AM IST

Delhi high court refuses to entertain plea for third-party embryo adoption

The Delhi high court said it was not for the court to decide the policy of the State and allowed the petitioner to approach the Union health ministry

A bench led by acting chief justice Manmohan declined to interfere with the rule, saying it was a policy matter (HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 23, 2024 05:32 PM IST

HC seeks ED response in plea by AAP MLA challenging his arrest

Delhi High Court seeks ED's response on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's plea challenging his arrest over alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board.

Amanatullah Khan after his arrest by ED. (Sanchit Khanna/HT)
Updated on Sep 20, 2024 06:04 AM IST

Puja Khedkar row: HC issues notice on UPSC plea seeking perjury proceedings

A bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad sought Khedkar’s response on UPSC's plea seeking perjury proceedings and fixed September 26 as the next date of hearing.

The Delhi High Court has fixed September 26 as the next date of hearing. The court would on that day would consider her Khedkar's plea seeking anticipatory bail in the case registered by the Delhi police for fraudulently availing attempts in the UPSC examination beyond the permissible limit by faking her identity. (File image)
Published on Sep 19, 2024 02:55 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Delhi HC grants bail to four people in IAS coaching centre deaths

On Friday, the court ordered the release of the four co-owners, subject to them depositing ₹5 crore with the Red Cross

Three IAS aspirants drowned in the basement library of Rau's IAS Study Circle in Old Rajendra Nagar in New Delhi on July 27. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 14, 2024 05:50 AM IST

HC issues notice to Khedkar over UPSC plea for perjury proceedings against her

A bench of Justice Jyoti Singh sought former probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s response within three weeks and listed the matter for hearing next on November 26

Former probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar. (ANI)
Published on Sep 12, 2024 04:23 PM IST

Court upholds SpiceJet engine grounding order

SpiceJet approached the division bench against a single judge’s August 14 order directing that the three engines be grounded and returned to the lessors

SpiceJet has announced low fare tickets. (AFP File Photo)
Updated on Sep 12, 2024 07:04 AM IST

Delhi HC seeks NADA reply on plea filed by wrestler Bajrang Punia on suspension

Justice Sanjeev Narula issued notice to the agency on the plea which has been filed ahead of the Senior World Wrestling Championships to be held in Albania in October

The court, however, questioned Punia on his refusal to submit a sample for the testing. (Facebook | Bajrang Punia)
Updated on Sep 11, 2024 01:33 PM IST

Delhi HC allows 7 students to attend St Stephen’s College

The high court directed the Delhi university to not allocate any further seats, fixed January 28 as next day of hearing

In its challenge, St Stephen’s painted a picture that the judge misunderstood the intent and purpose of over-allocation of seats in the initial rounds of admission. (HT Archive)
Updated on Sep 11, 2024 06:42 AM IST

Tihar justifies its move to bar MP from meeting Delhi CM, points to rules

Rule 588 of the Delhi Prison Rules bars ex-prisoners and habitual offenders from meeting their friends lodged in prison

Tihar Jail Superintendent refused to permit Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh to meet chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 10, 2024 05:32 AM IST

St Stephen’s moves HC to challenge directions to admit 7 students

St Stephen’s claimed that the findings of the single-judge bench would create severe burden on the college.

St Stephen's College, Delhi University. (File)
Updated on Sep 10, 2024 05:18 AM IST

St. Stephen's appeals against single judge order asking it to admit 7 students

Stephen’s counsel urged bench of acting chief justice Manmohan and justice Tushar Rao Gedela urged the court to list the matter tomorrow, to which court agreed.

In the plea, the college claimed that the varsity contrary to its undertaking regarding extra allocation and permitted intake, allocated more seats, because of which the college could not admit such candidates.(File)
Updated on Sep 09, 2024 02:32 PM IST

Stakeholder consultation within 2 weeks: Delhi HC on mandatory attendance in colleges

The court was acting on a petition originally taken up by the Supreme Court in 2016, following the alleged suicide case of a student at Amity Law University

October 14 is the next date of hearing. (File photo)
Updated on Sep 09, 2024 01:28 PM IST

Delhi HC directs St Stephen’s College to admit 7 students

The common seat allocation system is binding on all the colleges affiliated with Delhi University, the court said

The court said students were not at fault at any point of the admission process, but had to face undue hardship due to the ongoing dispute. (Representative photo)
Updated on Sep 07, 2024 06:10 AM IST

Drowning deaths: HC seeks CBI response to bail plea of Rajendra Nagar coaching centre co-owners

Stressing the agency’s duty to act responsibly, a bench of justice Dinesh Kumar asked CBI to come up with “concrete evidence” over the accountability of co-owners Sarabjeet Singh, Tejinder Singh, Harinder Singh and Parminder Singh

The coaching centre in Old Rajendra Nagar where the deaths took place. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 06, 2024 05:36 AM IST

Delhi HC pulls up Wikipedia for non-compliance of order

The HC took strong exception to the platform’s conduct while considering a plea filed by ANI, alleging that Wikipedia failed to comply with its Aug 20 order.

A screenshot of the Wikipedia web page. (AFP Photo)
Updated on Sep 05, 2024 08:38 PM IST

High court upholds Tihar rejection of AAP leader’s request to meet Kejriwal

Sandeep Pathak moved the high court seeking to quash the decision of the Tihar authorities and direct them to permit him to meet Kejriwal

The high court said political statements have been made on Kejriwal’s behalf. (HT PHOTO)
Published on Sep 05, 2024 10:11 AM IST

Delhi HC raps NCRTC for seeking tree felling nod for RRTS project

A bench of justice Jasmeet Singh, although clarifying that he would not stall the project, took a dim view of the NCRTC approaching the court at the fag end of the project and said that the corporation was not sensitive to ecological issues

The RRTS stretch extends to Meerut. (HT Archive)
Updated on Sep 04, 2024 05:34 AM IST

Won’t quash defamation case against AAP: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court refused to quash defamation proceedings against CM Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leaders for alleging BJP deleted 3 million voters' names, citing defamatory intent.

The Delhi high court said that the imputations were defamatory in nature against the BJP and were made to gain “undue political mileage”. (HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 03, 2024 06:18 AM IST

Delhi HC ‘concerned’ about health dept affairs

The court directed the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to take over the implementation of the recommendations

The HC was hearing a suo motu case on health services in the Capital. (Representative photo/HT Archive)
Updated on Sep 03, 2024 05:22 AM IST

Delhi high court tells MCD to improve ways to raze illegal construction

The court also expressed displeasure over the agency’s failure to abide by repeated orders to change its means of regulating illegal constructions

A bench of acting chief justice Manmohan and justice Tushar Rao Gedela directed the MCD commissioner to file an affidavit. (HT Archive)
Updated on Aug 31, 2024 05:10 AM IST

Delhi HC refuses to quash defamation case against Tharoor over remarks against PM

The high court vacated the interim order and directed the parties to appear before the trial court on September 10

The MP had appealed against the city court’s order of April 2019 summoning him as an accused in the criminal complaint. (PTI file photo)
Published on Aug 29, 2024 04:10 PM IST

Delhi HC takes exception to Brij Bhushan’s plea in sexual harassment case

Singh, a six-time former BJP lawmaker, was booked last year after top wrestlers accused his of sexual harassment and camped at Jantar Mantar for 38 days demanding his immediate arrest

Former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. (AP)
Published on Aug 29, 2024 12:44 PM IST

Delhi HC extends interim protection from arrest to Puja Khedkar till Sept 5

A bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad extended the protection after the counsel for Delhi Police sought time to file certain documents to prove that Khedkar had committed forgery

Khedkar had approached the Delhi high court against the city court’s order refusing to grant her anticipatory bail. (PTI file photo)
Published on Aug 29, 2024 12:33 PM IST

Delhi HC urges Centre to fill Section 377 gaps in BNS

The Delhi high court on Wednesday suggested that the Union government promulgate an ordinance penalising the offence of forced unnatural sex and sodomy.

The Delhi High Court granted the Centre six months to take a “holistic view” regarding the exclusion of these offences from the newly enforced penal code, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). (HT Archive)
Updated on Aug 29, 2024 06:19 AM IST
By, New Delhi

UPSC lacks power to disqualify after appointment, Khedkar tells HC

Refuting the allegations of fake documents and fraud levelled by UPSC against her, Khedkar, in a four-page reply, asserted that she neither changed her first name and surname from 2012 to 2022, nor manipulated or misrepresented her name to the commission.

UPSC lacks power to disqualify after appointment, Khedkar tells HC
Updated on Aug 29, 2024 07:38 AM IST

4 co-owners of Rajendra Nagar basement move Delhi high court

The co-owners – Sarabjeet Singh, Tejinder Singh, Harinder Singh and Parminder Singh – were arrested on July 28

Three IAS aspirants drowned in the basement of the coaching centre at Old Rajendra Nagar in New Delhi on July 27. (ANI)
Updated on Aug 29, 2024 06:06 AM IST
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