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Justice Madhu Jain held that reserving a matter for judgment does not render a trial court functus officio for the purpose of recalling a witness under Section 311 CrPC.
Justice Prateek Jalan quashed an FIR under the BNS after parties settled a flat-entry assault, conditioning relief on six sessions of community service and Rs. 10,000 in costs.
The Delhi High Court, led by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, has taken up a PIL over the collapse of two PG hostels at Satya Niketan that killed at least seven students.
Justice Madhu Jain declined to interfere with an ASJ's acquittal, holding that DNA evidence confirming paternity cannot, by itself, prove non-consent under Section 376(2)(n) IPC.
A Division Bench found ECI's existing Manual and Draft Electoral Roll extracts sufficient to address exclusion fears, rejecting mandamus for a separate facilitative mechanism.
Six years after the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench recorded his arguments in the Indore Development Authority case, a Senior Advocate and former MP Advocate General has won a writ for unpaid fees.
The High Court found that the inquiry report showed cheating material in a washroom but no evidence the student actually used it during his BNS examination.
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court disposed of a petition by 42 street vendors seeking fixed vending sites, holding that provisional Certificates of Vending permit only mobile vending.
The Delhi High Court has issued a circular limiting entry passes and ID cards for interning law students to third-year LL.B. and fourth- and fifth-year integrated course students only.
The Delhi High Court converted a writ petition challenging mandatory biometric attendance for public prosecutors into a representation, directing the government to decide it within four weeks.
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court rejected a PIL on IFCI's NSE share divestment after finding the petitioner had hidden a prior Bombay High Court writ and made a false sworn averment.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani grants PhysicsWallah founder Alakh Pandey interim protection against three specific categories of online violation while warning that personality rights cannot suppress caricature or legitimate expression.
Justice A. J. Bhambhani directed defendants 20 and 21 to take down 552 sexually vulgar URLs within three weeks, while declining a sweeping order covering all 6,884 disputed links.
Justice Amit Bansal declined to entertain a writ petition filed by an advocate-in-person challenging daily traffic gridlock near his Connaught Place office, holding the issue beyond Article 226 jurisdiction.
Delhi High Court asks the DSLSA selection committee to conclude the PLV selection process within one month, with an expectation that final-year students receive preference.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav granted bail to two accused in a 2020 murder case, citing six years of incarceration, glacial trial progress, and the IO's persistent non-appearance.
A Division Bench dismissed a writ petition by the Khan Market Welfare Association, holding that courts cannot direct a statutory authority to formulate its own assessment methodology under Article 226.
Justice Sachin Datta attached an ICICI Bank account of FIITJEE's alter ego for Rs 66.31 lakh in rent arrears and barred directors from leaving India.
Justice Girish Kathpalia held that the gruesome manner of the killing outweighed the accused's plea of trial delay, dismissing his regular bail application filed nearly seven years after the FIR.
A thirteen-year-old EWS student rusticated after missing one exam was allowed back in Class-VIII; the court found the school's action illegal under Delhi's own school education rules.
Justice Anish Dayal held that ECIR/DLZO-II/72/2021 could not survive once the EOW's cancellation report in the sole predicate FIR was accepted, and that a belated addendum adding an older, unrelated FIR was legally unsustainable.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav declined bail to wrestler Sushil Kumar in the 2021 Chhatrasal Stadium murder case, holding that hostile witness testimony alone does not constitute a change in circumstances after the Supreme Court cancelled his earlier bail.
Justice A. J. Bhambhani held that the Sentence Review Board's repeated, copy-paste rejections relying solely on offence gravity violated Article 21 and the Delhi remission policy, and directed immediate release of both petitioners.
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court declined interim relief to an 81-year-old OCI Cardholder barred from India, holding that complex questions about the interplay between the Citizenship Act and the Foreigners Act must be finally decided first.
