New Delhi: A year and 12 states later, Delhi has become the latest to ban gutka after the new Food Safety Law banning foods with tobacco and nicotine content came into being. There is a mixed response to the national capital finally banning sale and manufacture of gutka. The ban affecting as many as 10,37,000 people in Delhi who consume gutka, was a result of a petition filed at the...
08:16 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Just three days before the first anniversary of the 2011 Delhi High Court blast, a special court in Delhi on Tuesday fixed September 18 to frame charges against an accused, sources said. Fifteen people were killed and 79 others injured in the September 7, 2011 blast outside Gate No 5 of the high court complex. National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Judge HS Sharma, during the in-camera proceedings, found...
01:54 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: A special NIA court has framed charges against 2011 Delhi High Court blast accused Wasim Akram Malik under Sections 302, 120b, 307, 323, 325, 436, 440 and various sections of the UAP Act and Arms act. Nearly 15 people were killed in the blast that took place on September 7. The terror attack at the Delhi High Court was plotted with an aim to get the death sentence...
03:51 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to hear former BJP President Bangaru Laxman's bail plea in a bribery case. He is serving an 11-year jail term after he was caught taking a bribe on camera in a sting operation in 2001. Laxman's petition also seeks quashing of charges in the case. ...
10:36 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: A New Delhi court is expected to pass an order on framing of charges against Wasim Akram Malik for his alleged role in the Delhi High Court blast case of 2011. Nearly 15 people were killed in the blast that took place on September 7. The terror attack at the Delhi High Court was plotted with an aim to get the death sentence of Parliament attack case convict...
10:22 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to accord a personal hearing to VHP leader Sadhvi Ritambhara and pass a reasoned order on her plea for issuance of a passport for ten years instead of one as she frequently visits abroad for giving religious discourses. "The present petition (of Sadhvi) be treated as a representation by respondent (Regional Passport Office of the External Affairs Ministry) and...
06:11 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a "piquant" case of a 13-year-old girl marrying a youth and refusing to go back to her parents, the Delhi High Court on Monday asked the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to ensure her safe custody and education till settlement of the case. "This is an extremely piquant situation where she has vehemently opposed restoration of her custody to the parents," said a bench...
08:31 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: A committee set up to examine the accounts of private schools allegedly charging high tuition fees on Thursday submitted its interim report to the Delhi High Court. The Justice Anil Dev Singh Committee was constituted about a year ago to submit its report on the determination of fees in the unaided schools of Delhi. A special bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Siddharth Mirdul would...
03:03 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: The capital is set to ban gutka sales across the city. The government told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the ban would be put into effect soon. The Sheila Dikshit government was replying to a PIL demanding a ban on gutka products. The PIL was filed by doctors citing a spurt in oral and lung cancer cases in the capital. ...
01:17 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would deliver on Friday its verdict on the anticipatory bail plea of absconding former Haryana Minister Gopal Goyal Kanda, the key accused in former air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case. Justice PK Bhasin, who had reserved his order on Kanda's bail plea after a day-long hearing on August 14, would pronounce it at 4 pm on Friday. A magisterial court, meanwhile, issued a NBW...
05:31 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea. Kanda, who is the chief of the now-defunct MDLR Airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. During the hearing, police told the court Kanda's custody is vital for the investigation. According to the police's lawyer Kanda's custody was needed to find the source...
05:20 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is set to hear former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea on Tuesday. Kanda who is the chief of the MDLR airlines, has been charged with abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma. Geetika was found dead in her Delhi home on the August 5. Kanda has been absconding for the past eight days and the police say they are unable...
06:20 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his ex-employee, Geetika Sharma, is likely to seek anticipatory bail from Delhi High Court on Monday. He is absconding for last six days after his earlier plea was rejected. Meanwhile, the custody of another accused MDLR group official Aruna Chadha has been extended to help recover certain crucial documents related to Geetika. Raids were conducted in several...
06:17 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his ex-employee, Geetika Sharma, is likely to seek anticipatory bail from Delhi High Court on Monday. He is absconding after his earlier plea was rejected. Kanda remained elusive for the fourth day on Sunday despite several raids by police even as one of his relatives was questioned to help track him down. Raids were conducted in several...
11:31 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Srinagar: One of the accused in the July 7, 2011 Delhi High Court blast has been killed along with his associate in an encounter with security forces at Pinjrari Dachhan in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. The accused has been identified as Aamir Kamal while security forces say his associate is Shafi Hajam. Some arms and ammunition have also been recovered from the killed terrorists. Kamal carried a reward...
01:34 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's plea to let him use a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim's statement to judicial commissions to defend himself was on Friday allowed by the Delhi High Court. Setting aside the trial court's June 2 decision which had dismissed Kumar's plea, Justice Pratibha Rani asked all the parties to appear before the trial court on August 6. The veteran Congress leader had moved the High Court...
02:38 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Children Investment Fund Management (UK) Llp, or TCI, on Wednesday filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against India's coal ministry and Coal India Ltd challenging their moves to keep the prices low. The TCI, which has less than 2 per cent stake in the company, claimed that the ministry had no legal authority to interfere with the decisions of Coal India ltd and that the...
06:20 AM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Delhi Government, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the NDMC on public smoking after a PIL was filed with the court against illegal hookah bars. The PIL had pointed out that there are bars in Delhi without license to serve hookah. World Lung Foundation had asked that smoking in public places should be banned. The government is...
01:14 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a huge setback for Congress leader N D Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Friday opened his DNA test results according to which he is the biological father of Rohit Shekhar, a man who filed a paternity suit four years ago. Following the development, Rohit said, "I will demand compensation for what he made me go through." These were ominous words from a man, who has been...
11:15 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday distanced itself from the issue of a DNA report declaring party veteran ND Tiwari as the biological father of Delhi-based youth Rohit Shekhar in a paternity suit, saying it was "personal" matter. "We should not talk about somebody's personal issue like this. This is someone's personal issue. The party has nothing to do with it. This question in personally related to Tiwari. He can...
06:29 PM, Jul 27, 2012
