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No DVAT reimbursement for Larsen and Toubro: Delhi HC upholds nil award in ₹4.45 crore Metro dispute
Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that the high and low voltage panels Larsen and Toubro bought through Areva for the Delhi Metro moved under a contract built around DMRC specifications, so the sales were inter-State and in the course of import, and no Delhi VAT was ever payable.
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Delhi High Court restrains Menarini scar serum sold as ACNE SCAR, one letter away from Mankind mark ACNESTAR
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav found that ACNE + SCAR on the HEXILAK pack was used as a product name rather than a description, that a house mark is no answer to infringement, and that the two marks are near identical in sound. The defendants have two months to recall stock but may keep selling the serum under another name.
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MIAL loses Sahara lease appeal as Delhi HC holds a judgment that copies the award is not non-speaking
A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Bharat Parashar upheld a 2023 award rejecting the Mumbai airport operator claim to the lessor interest in a 30,047 square metre Sahara lease, holding that reproducing an award is not proof of non-application of mind, even as it flagged gaps in the reasoning below.
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Three arbitrators quitting over fees did not end the ₹3,515 crore NHAI-IRB arbitration, Delhi HC rules
Justice Sachin Datta held that the simultaneous recusal of a tribunal headed by a former Supreme Court judge was a withdrawal from office under Section 15, not a termination under Section 32, rejected the reliance placed by the IRB companies on Harshbir Singh Pannu, and appointed Justice Rajesh Bindal as presiding arbitrator.
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Delhi High Court refuses to quash peace-bond notice to AISA president Neha over Mandi House protest
Justice Subramonium Prasad held that at the show-cause stage a writ court asks only whether the Executive Magistrate had any material and applied his mind to it, and that a police kalandara backed by three general diary entries and six FIRs was not nil material. He directed the State to hand over everything it relies on and told the magistrate not to demand
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Delhi High Court quashes SFIO probe into Educomp, eight years after an order that gave no reasons
Justice Amit Mahajan held that the Corporate Affairs Ministry order of 17 August 2018 merely reproduced Section 212(1)(c) of the Companies Act, and that the Oversight Committee minutes offered to prop it up rested on a news article, a letter from an MP and inspection reports that had found no fraud. The 2022 prosecution complaint falls with it.
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She says she never took the loan and her signatures were forged, and the house was going to auction as a whole
Justice Jasmeet Singh excluded a senior citizen's one-third undivided share from the e-auction, holding that if the property sells as a whole she would be left chasing an auction purchaser or a money claim.
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One arbitrator would have given the contractor ₹6.22 crore and two gave him nothing, and Section 34 does not let a court pick
Justice Subramonium Prasad dismissed a challenge to a majority award on a highway maintenance contract, holding the Tribunal's reading of the security deposit clauses was a plausible view.
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The eyewitness delayed reporting it and would not let the police lift the body, and 637 days later the State sought leave to appeal
Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja condoned the delay and then refused leave, holding no prima facie case was made out against men acquitted of murder in 2021.
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The Education Department told the Tribunal the school was not a minority institution and its own records said it was
Justice Sanjeev Narula restored a Vice-Principal's appeal against her 2017 termination, directed it be decided within four months, and ordered the school to pay her suspension-period dues in eight weeks.
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A brother surrendered his share in the family house, and the one room his divorced wife lives in stayed where it was
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed a second appeal, holding the declaration of surrender was made to defeat the defendant's right of maintenance and could not defeat her right of residence under Section 39.
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It was penalised for not filing a fresh application while the very question whether it needed to was pending in court
Justice Jasmeet Singh set aside the Medical Assessment and Rating Board's speaking order, revived the 2025-26 application for 2026-27, and let the Institute into the stray round if a fresh inspection is satisfactory.
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Her five-year-old son was in the room and had burns on both hands, and the prosecution never once recorded what he saw
Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja set aside a 2003 life sentence, holding the declarations did not present a consistent account and that a neighbour's unchallenged evidence placed the appellant outside the house.
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Two digits were missing from the address on the postal receipt, and that is why a 2017 arbitral award is still open to objection
Justice Ajay Digpaul held the presumption of service under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act cannot be divorced from proper addressing, and refused to disturb the trial court's finding under Article 227.
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An award over the Commonwealth Games athletic track survives eleven years of challenge under Section 34
Justice Om Prakash Shukla rejected the CPWD's objections to the arbitrator's impartiality, to the merits of three claims, and to the scope of the reference.
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A suggestion of tutoring is not proof of it, and a six-year-old's consistent account carried the conviction
Justice Madhu Jain dismissed an appeal under Section 415(2) of the BNSS, setting out when a child witness can be the sole basis of a conviction.
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You cannot sue for partition while leaving the Will that defeats you unchallenged
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upholds the rejection of a partition suit under Order VII Rule 11, holding that a plaintiff who has known of the Wills since 2014 needed a declaration and the limitation for one had long expired.
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Three Division Benches said 120 days is the end of it — a fourth has asked a Larger Bench to decide
Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Renu Bhatnagar say they are unable to agree with Ram Sarup Lugani, Delhi Gymkhana Club and Manhar Sabharwal, and refer three questions on Rule 4 of the Original Side Rules and the Registrar's powers for consideration by a Larger Bench.
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Restored to the roll and censured in the same judgment: the fraud must be what got you enrolled
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma sets aside the Bar Council of India's removal of an advocate's name, holding that the proviso to Section 26(1) of the Advocates Act requires a nexus between the wrongful act and the enrolment obtained — and reprimands her for the fabricated certificate anyway.
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Rs 25.75 lakh recovered from a retired teacher must go back, with six per cent interest
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna held a study leave bond clause unenforceable against the Study Leave Rules, and found recovery barred by Rafiq Masih in any event.
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No injunction where the claimed copyright itself is not prima facie established
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav refused an interim injunction over Delhi Law House titles, holding a claim to a share of revenue is compensable in damages, not by restraint.