New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday denied permission to a Class 9 girl to live with her boyfriend, a student of Class 12 of the school she was in, and handed over her custody to her parents. The girl from a private school in Paschim Vihar had moved the court seeking approval to remain with her boyfriend and his family, who had expressed desire to take custody of...
05:40 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: Criminal proceedings will continue against Yahoo India which had moved the Delhi High Court against a lower court order summoning it for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Refusing to stay the criminal proceedings against the website, Justice Suresh Kait declined to pass any order "at this stage" and fixed the matter for March 1, saying he will hear the case before the trial court hears it on March 13....
02:26 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Online search engine Yahoo India's plea challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly allowing objectionable content on its site, will come up for hearing at the Delhi High Court on Friday. The High Court has also sought a response from the Delhi Police in the matter. A lower court had on December 23 issued summons to 21 websites, including Google and Facebook, for allegedly...
08:53 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court for seeking a clarification whether the special court can conduct a trial of companies which are not charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the case arising out of the probe in the 2G spectrum scam case. The probe agency approached the apex court after being asked by the Delhi High Court which had also directed Essar and Loop...
08:54 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear final arguments in the objectionable online content case. Several social networking websites, including Google and Facebook, had approached the court requesting it to quash the trial court's order, which summoned them earlier. The trial court had warned the websites that the websites could face a ban if they didn't remove objectionable content. Google and Facebook, along with 16 other websites are facing...
09:00 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would hear on March 29 a city police plea for dropping stringent MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem whose extradition was terminated recently by the Portuguese Supreme Court on the ground of alleged violation of extradition terms by India. Justice Sudarshan Kumar Mishra slated for hearing on March 29 Delhi Police petitions, declining a government counsel's request that the matter be heard as the...
06:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to the organisers of the upcoming Bangalore Fashion Week (BFW), the Delhi High Court has restrained them from playing music or videos in which the copyright rests with Phonographic Performance Ltd, a society of music firms. Justice Manmohan Singh has directed the Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) and the other organisers of the BFW not to play any sound recording during the four day event for...
11:32 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday extended till February 13 the judicial custody of suspected terrorist Amir Abbas Dev who was arrested for his alleged role in the September 7, 2011 blast outside the Delhi High Court premises. Dev was produced before District Judge HS Sharma during an in-chamber hearing after expiry of his two-week judicial remand. The court extended the judicial custody of Dev after the National Investigation...
05:46 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to submit a file on the Uphaar theatre fire victims' plea for grant of sanction to prosecute former IPS officer Amod Kanth for allegedly allowing an extra row of seats in the hall, leading to closure of one of its crucial exits. Justice Vipin Sanghi directed the counsel for Union Home Ministry to place on record the original file...
04:05 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy in the controversial DNA article case. Swamy had approached the High Court expressing suspicion that the Government might want to get him arrested because of his expose in the 2G spectrum scam case. The Delhi Police opposed his bail plea, but the High Court has granted an anticipatory bail till the case is...
01:56 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Two more corporate executives are set to face trial in the 2G Spectrum case on Friday. Anshuman and Ravi Ruia are among top executives from Essar and Loop telecom who have been summoned by a special CBI judge. The central probe agency has chargesheeted the 2 companies and 5 executives for criminal conspiracy and cheating to get the 2G license. Earlier Essar, Loop and the CBI were on...
07:11 AM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: India will approach the Constitutional Court of Portugal challenging the decision of that country's Supreme Court which recently confirmed the decision to terminate the extradition of fugitive underworld don Abu Salem to face trial in various cases here. "Whole extradition process is in jeopardy. The CBI is going before the Constitutional Court of Portugal against the decision of the Supreme Court of that country," Additional Solicitor General (ASG)...
12:29 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre and Delhi government are both expected to file replies on the adulterated milk incidents in the Delhi High Court. The court had taken cognisance of reports that revealed that nearly 70 per cent of milk samples in the country are found to be contaminated with water, detergent and even urea. The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the...
08:46 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear petitions filed by Facebook and Google on Monday in the objectionable content case. The companies had challenged a trial court summons for allegedly webcasting objectionable material. Google and Facebook, along with 16 other websites are facing criminal proceedings. Google and Facebook had argued that it is impossible for them to prescreen content with billions of users accessing websites every day and that...
07:30 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the city police on a plea of Yahoo India Pvt Ltd challenging the summons issued to it by a magistrate for allegedly hosting objectionable content. "Notice be issued for February 10," Justice Suresh Kait said while admitting the petition of Yahoo India for hearing. The court also allowed Yahoo India's plea that its case be heard separately. Senior advocate...
01:20 PM, Jan 20, 2012
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