New Delhi: Noting that diplomats enjoy immunity abroad and foreign courts have no jurisdiction over them, the Centre on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking an order restraining an Indian maid from pursuing in the US a case against her former employers, an Indian diplomat and her husband, for allegedly abusing her. Filing a civil suit before Justice Kailash Gambhir, the Ministry of External Affairs contended that the case...
07:34 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi government for failing to respond to a plea by 172 farmers over takeover of their land using the urgency clause of the Land Acquisition Act. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakedhar also fined the government Rs 5,000. In a hearing on March 6, the judges asked the government to explain why it acquired the...
03:12 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea by Swiss Timing to stay a lower court proceeding against them in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring and Results scam (TSR). According to the CBI chargesheet against them, sacked CWG Olympic Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and others escalated the Swiss firm's tender cost, causing a loss of Rs 90 crore to the exchequer. Swiss Timing had approached the HC...
11:05 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Etisalat DB and TDSAT will come up for hearing on Monday in the Delhi High Court. Telecom tribunal TDSAT issued a notice to Etisalat DB on Reliance Infratel's plea seeking to recover Rs 1,200 crore from the operator which had taken its telecom infrastructure on lease. A TDSAT bench headed by its chairman, Justice SB Sinha, asked the company to file a reply within two weeks and...
10:02 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to decide on the plea of one of the accused in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring and Results (TSR) scam on Monday. Switzerland-based firm, the Swiss Timing Omega, is seeking a stay on possible coercive measures against it, ordered by a lower court. Sacked CWG Olympic Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi had allegedly granted the contract to Swiss Timing, causing a loss of...
07:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed criminal proceedings against Yahoo India, which was summoned along with 20 other websites to face trial for allegedly hosting objectionable content on their web pages. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is set aside," Justice Suresh Kait said while allowing the plea of the website that the lower court wrongly issued the process against it, without attributing any specific role to...
06:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for Yahoo India, the Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the personal presence summons issued to its chief by the Patiala House Court. The Patiala House Court had issued summons to all the 21 websites involved in the objectionable content case to appear before court on March 13. Facebook and Google have already got the summons stayed. "The summons issued against Yahoo India is...
04:41 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Expressing displeasure for not furnishing details of homosexuals' population, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked for all relevant records from the Centre about LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people, including their number and the number of HIV-infected among them. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said the data which was put before the Delhi High Court has not been placed here and...
01:39 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is expected to hear Nitish Katara's mother's complaint against convicts Vikas and Vishal Yadav on Friday. Katara's mother Neelam Katara had earlier claimed they have been enjoying preferential treatment at Tihar Jail. CNN-IBN had reported that both the accused had made 151 medical outings in four years. The Delhi High Court on February 1 asked Tihar Jail authorities to produce medical records of Vikas Yadav...
09:31 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Relief for CWG home buyers as Delhi High Court on Thursday has ordered Delhi Development Authority to issue completion certificate to owners of flats. The completion certificate will be given to 30 of the total 34 towers of CWG village. The two towers of DDA and EMAAR-MGF each to be kept aside to sort out the extra far issue of the 30 towers, 26 are to be opened...
06:57 PM, Feb 23, 2012
According to reports, the Union Home Ministry has opposed the decriminalisation of gay sex in the country. ...
01:09 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday opposed decriminalisation of gay sex in the country before the Supreme Court. "This is highly immoral and against the social order," the Ministry told the apex court. The Section - 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) reads 'Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished'. The offender could have to face...
12:44 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday opposed decriminalisation of gay sex in the country before the Supreme Court. "This is highly immoral and against the social order," the Ministry told the apex court. The Ministry said that India's moral and social values are different from those of other countries and India cannot be guided by them. Delhi High court had earlier passed a judgement which decriminalized Section -...
12:09 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday exempted the heads of Google and Facebook from making a personal appearance in the court on March 13 in the objectionable content case. This came after the lawyers of the government and the websites sparred over their presence in the court. The government counsel, meanwhile, slammed Google and Facebook and hit out for not adhering to Indian sentiments. The counsel cited an...
04:38 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: A plea by two 2G case accused challenging the presence of the CBI investigating officers in the court room during the trial of the case was on Tuesday dismissed by the Delhi High Court. "Both the petitions are dismissed," said Justice ML Mehta, dismissing the pleas for the high court's directions to restrain the CBI IOs from attending the lower court proceedings in the 2G case. Justice Mehta...
05:32 PM, Feb 14, 2012
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
