New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the Delhi Police will question cricket bookie Sanjeev Chawla inside Tihar Jail. Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain appearing for the Ministry of Home Affairs said, “The centre piece of the assurance given to UK government that he will be kept […]
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Delhi HC dismisses plea on error in CBSE sample papers
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking rectification of errors in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 accountancy sample question papers and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner. The petitioner, named Ravinder Nath dubey, has been teaching accountancy for the past 26 years. Asserting that […]
HC adjourns PIL seeking linking of Aadhaar with property
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday adjourned till April 1 the hearing on a PIL seeking linking of Aadhaar card with property documents. A bench presided by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Harishankar granting four more weeks to the Centre to file its reply and posted the matter for hearing on […]
Delhi HC dismisses Centre’s plea on stay on death warrants
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday while dismissing the Centre’s plea challenging the trial court order which had stayed the death warrants in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, noted that “the convicts have frustrated the process of law”. The Centre moved Supreme Court after High Court ruled the four convicts can’t […]
Delhi HC reserves order on Centre’s plea in Nirbhaya case
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Sunday reserved its order on a petition by the Central government challenging an indefinite stay imposed on the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. The hanging of Vinay, Pawan, Akshay and Mukesh, originally scheduled for 7 a.m. January 22, was postponed to February 1 at […]
Don’t delay Nirbhaya case convicts’ hanging, Delhi HC urged
New Delhi: The Central government on Sunday termed the indefinite stay imposed on the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case a “deliberate, well-calculated and well-thought out attempt to frustrate the process of law” and demanded that there should be “no delay” in their hanging. “In the Interest of the […]
JNU students get relief from HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday granted relief to the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) allowing them to register in the next semester as per the old hostel manual within one week. “So far as the remaining students are concerned, they need to register within one week as per the old manual. […]
JNUSU moves Delhi HC against late fees
New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union has moved Delhi High Court against the New Inter Hostel Administration (IHA) manual (Hostel Manual) seeking direction to restrain the varsity administration from imposing late fees on students for registrations in winter semester 2020. The plea was filed by JNUSU members including President Aishe Ghose, Vice President Saket […]
HC refuses to set aside death warrant against Nirbhaya convict
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to set aside the death warrant issued against Nirbhaya death row convict Mukesh. A division bench of the court presided by Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Saihgal asked counsel of the petitioner Mukesh to approach the trial court and apprise the trial court about the new developments […]
HC reprimands Nirbhaya convict’s counsel on delaying tactics
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the legal team of Nirbhaya death row convict Mukesh over the delay in exercising the legal remedies available to them. “You have waited for two-and-a-half years to file a curative and mercy petition? Criminal appeal was dismissed in 2017. After that, what took you so long […]