The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked state government and the police to ensure within a week proper "publicity" to their orders that all hospitals, including private ones, cannot deny treatment to survivors of criminal offences, especially rape and road accidents. ...
07:23 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought a response of the CBI on IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar's appeal against his conviction and 10-year jail term in the case of illegal recruitments of teachers in Haryana. Justice Mukta Gupta issued a notice to the probe agency on the plea filed by Kumar, who was convicted and sentenced along with former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala and 53 others in the case...
02:53 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The Delhi High Court Friday restrained Sony TV channel from broadcasting an episode of 'Crime Patrol' programme based on a teachers' recruitment scam involving former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and 54 others. ...
10:14 AM, Feb 23, 2013
The Centre on Friday informed the Delhi High Court that the renewal of licences for 900 MHz spectrum of three leading mobile service operators would be decided within two weeks. "The government will decide their applications (for renewal of licences) within two weeks as per the law," Additional Solicitor General (ASG) AS Chandhiok told a bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher. ...
06:15 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on a PIL over nursery admissions in private schools in Delhi. On Wednesday, the Centre informed the court that Right To Education Act was not applicable for children below the age of six under the general category. ...
04:34 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the Congress and the BJP on a plea seeking directive for a CBI or SIT probe for allegedly taking donations from subsidiaries of Britain-based Vedanta Group. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Indermeet Kaur sought response from both political parties within three weeks and posted the matter for March 19. ...
04:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Real estate baron Gopal Ansal, one of the convicts in the 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy case, on February 2 moved a plea in a Delhi court seeking clubbing of two other pending criminal cases against him. Ansal, in an application filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Manan, has sought joint trials in two separate FIRs lodged, in 2006 and 2007, for allegedly fudging the judicial records of the Uphaar...
04:00 PM, Feb 02, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the state government and health department to issue a directive to hospitals to attend to all trauma patients. This also applies to the private hospitals in the city too. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The hearing in the Delhi nursery admissions row has been postponed till Wednesday. There remains uncertainty over admissions this year as the High Court has stayed the process until it takes a final decision in the matter. ...
11:27 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the city police for not filing a proper response to a plea seeking a CBI probe into Constable Subhash Tomar's death during the anti-rape stir in the national capital, saying it would summon the Police Commissioner if the police won't follow proper protocol in the case. ...
02:21 PM, Jan 29, 2013
In an unusual order, the Delhi High Court has quashed two promotions of a sitting Lieutenant General of Army, terming them as "illegal," and has relegated him to a lower rank of Brigadier. A bench of Justices Gita Mittal and JR Midha quashed the promotions given to Lt Gen SS Thakral, a 1974 batch officer, in 2009 and 2011 saying the Staff Selection Board exercised its powers in "bad faith"...
10:25 AM, Jan 13, 2013
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday advised general entertainment channel Sony TV to not telecast a dramatic reconstruction of the Delhi gangrape case in its popular cime show 'Crime Patrol - Dastak'. ...
09:14 AM, Jan 11, 2013
A day after it was slammed for laxity in probe, the Delhi Police on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology to the Delhi High Court for not coming up with a satisfactory status report. ...
11:32 AM, Jan 10, 2013
The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi police over the Delhi gangrape case, says timely action could have prevented such crime. ...
09:04 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Delhi High Court said that timely action by the police could have prevented the incident. ...
06:45 PM, Jan 09, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice on a PIL demanding the law to punish juveniles to be made more stringent. The petition sought quashing of a provision in Juvenile Justice Act which spares minor convicts from life term and death penalty. ...
01:39 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Delhi Police were asked on Tuesday by the Delhi High Court to explain as to how a special executive magistrate can be vested with the power to impose prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC for up to six months despite the same being contrary to the fundamental rights of citizens. ...
02:49 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A youth's paternity suit to declare ND Tiwari as his biological father was ordered to be heard on a day-to-day basis by the Delhi High Court on Monday after the veteran Congress leader refused to settle the issue through mediation. "The local commissioner is hereby directed to conduct, preferably, the hearing on a day-to-day basis," Justice Manmohan said. ...
03:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The High Court said that the Delhi Police should have tried to maintain law and order instead of imposing section 144. ...
10:56 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came to the rescue of the homeless and asked the city government not to remove till April the temporary night shelters, built near railways tracks in the national capital. ...
10:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
