A bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta issued notice on the appeal of the accused challenging the rejection of his bail by the trial court and directed that the matter be listed before another bench dealing with the bail pleas of other accused in the case.
The new appointments take the number of judges in the high court to 47, including 12 women judges. The sanctioned strength of the high court is 60.
Delhi High Court: The word 'SHOLAY', is the title of an iconic film, and consequently, as a mark having been associated with the film, produced and now vesting in the plaintiffs, cannot be held to be devoid of protection.
The probing agency had demanded court to award the death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik who was convicted in a terror funding case last week.
The new appointments take the number of judges in the court to 44 against a sanctioned strength of 60.
The Delhi High Court had earlier delivered a split verdict on petitions demanding the criminalisation of marital rape.
Justice Shakdher asserted that the fact that the rapist is the husband of the victim does not make the act of sexual assault any less injurious, degrading, or dehumanizing and emphasized that marital rape leaves not only physical scars but also “much deeper scars on the psyche of the victim”.
The Delhi HC's verdict came on petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC.
The Delhi High Court has asked the makers to add new disclaimers to Ranveer Singh's Jayeshbhai Jordaar, which will be released on May 13.
Hearing pleas, a division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul, Rajnish Bhatnagar noted that a matter challenging constitutional validity of offence of Sedition under Section 124A of IPC is pending for hearing before SC on May 5.
The plea sought direction to implement a Holistic Integrated Common Syllabus and Common Curriculum of Allopathy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy for all Medical Colleges in order to secure the right to health.
the new Act grants legal sanction for the Police to collect finger impressions, palm prints impressions, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scans, and physical and biological samples.
Delhi govt had decided to give a face-lift to the area around the Jama Masjid, and it had appointed a new consultant for preparing a detailed plan.
Justice Jasmeet Singh, who was hearing a plea by the Delhi Waqf Board seeking a direction to open the mosque for the holy month, clarified that no "Tablighi activities" and lectures can take place on the premises and only prayers can be offered.
Delhi Police said that opening of the mosque would be permitted on the same terms and conditions which were laid down by the high court while permitting offering of prayers there for the occasion of Shab-e-Barat.
Dismssing the petition by Chirag Paswan's mother Reena Paswan, Justice Yashwant Varma observed that at this stage it will have to stall the process which has already started.
The Delhi High Court said "you (Twitter) are not bothered about sensitivities of other people in other regions of the world, of ethnicities."
He was the first district judge to have been appointed as the Union Law Secretary. His return to the realm of the judiciary also sets another record -- Mehendiratta is the first Union Law Secretary to have been appointed as the judge of a high court.
A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar said it was not possible to adjourn an ongoing matter as there is no terminal date by when the Centre's consultations will be over on the marital rape issue.
Last year, Ansals and former court staff Dinesh Chand Sharma and 2 others- PP Batra and Anoop Singh Karayat- were awarded 7-year jail term by a trial court and the sessions court had refused to suspend the sentence and release them on bail.
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