By Nilashish Chaudhary New Delhi, Sept 15, 2020: A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Delhi High Court has sought a declaration recognizing the right of same-sex couples to get married under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. The petition filed on behalf of activists and members of the LGBTQ communityContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 2, 2020: The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are “trying the patience of the nation,” the federal government told the Delhi High Court in a rare Sunday hearing on February 2. The government challenged a trial court’s order staying the execution of Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta,Continue Reading
New Delhi, Oct. 31, 2016: The Delhi High Court on October 31 sentenced 16 former Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) men in Uttar Pradesh to life imprisonment for killing 42 people in 1987. The court quashed a 2015 trial court judgment that exonerated them of the crime. It directed all theContinue Reading
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Taking note of the media houses’ apology, the bench suggested that they give wide and continuous publicity to the statutory provisions of lawContinue Reading
New Delhi: Illegal encroachments or unauthorised construction cannot be allowed anywhere in the national capital, whether it is a temple, a mosque or a church, the Delhi High Court has said. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also ordered that only the oldContinue Reading
New Delhi: Allowing mosquitoes to breed leading to spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue is equivalent to penal offences like culpable homicide and rash driving, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday told the three municipal corporations and said “heads must roll” for this. “Should it not be tested on theContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Denying sex to husband for a long time without any justification amounts to mental cruelty and is a ground for divorce, Delhi High Court has said. The verdict came on a petition by a husband seeking divorce, complaining that his wife had subjected him to mental cruelty byContinue Reading
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to take necessary steps to “expeditiously” modify the rules regarding the prestigious civil services examinations to incorporate transgender or third gender in the exam application forms. Referring to the landmark judgement passed by the Supreme Court on April 15, 2014 grantingContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to student leader Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested in a sedition case three weeks ago. The court asked Kumar, president of the of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union, to furnish a personal bond of 10,000 rupees and aContinue Reading