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The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Delhi High Court to consider a plea of 11 members of the Delhi Gymkhana Club, who had challenged the Centre's decision to take over the club's 27.3-acre premises and the subsequent eviction proceedings. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was apprised by senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for the members of the club, that the Delhi High Court refused to entertain their plea on the grounds that only the club can challenge the Centre's decision. Singh said the high court asked the members to get a clarification from the apex court that they can also move the plea there. The top court permitted them to move the high court subject to objections, which may be raised by the other side regarding the maintainability and other legal oppositions. Singh, appearing for the 11 members, had earlier told the bench that a Central government-nominated committee is presently managing the club, and it cannot .
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking a SIT probe into the 2020 riots in the national capital and the 2019 violence that broke out in Jamia Millia Islamia following anti-CAA protests. A bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain said, "for the reasons mentioned in the judgment, all the petitions are dismissed". "The batch is decided into two parts, one is northeast Delhi riots and another is for Jamia Millia riots," the bench said while pronouncing the verdict. A detailed judgment is awaited. The court had reserved its verdict on the batch of petitions on July 24. In the northeast Delhi riots matter, the court was hearing a batch of petitions seeking directions for setting up a special investigation team (SIT), commission of inquiry or a fact-finding committee, for medical treatment, grant of compensation and registration of FIRs against the erring police officers. Some of the pleas also demanded that political leaders be booked for alleged h
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in a case under the anti-terror law UAPA on the "larger conspiracy" behind the February 2020 riots in north-east Delhi. A bench of Justices Prathiba M Singh and Dinesh Bhatt dismissed the third bail pleas by Khalid and Sharjeel in the case. The bench said it cannot modify the Supreme Court's January 5 order asking the two accused to seek bail either on completion of protected witnesses' examination or expiry of one year from passing order, whichever is earlier. Khalid and Imam have been booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on allegations of being one of the masterminds of the February 2020 riots that left 53 people dead and more than 700 injured. The violence erupted during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Activist Khalid Saifi and former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, among others, were
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Meta Platforms to immediately remove objectionable content of a woman's morphed picture posted on social media with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Justice Girish Kathpalia observed that this is an extraordinary position in which the matter is not of one woman but also of the country's prime minister. If the Delhi Police is not sensitive about it, the court will ensure it becomes sensitive, he further noted. The high court also issued notice to Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke,, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh on a plea by the woman alleging that they circulated her morphed and explicit picture with the prime minister. The court, which listed the matter for further hearing on October 14, directed the police to give complete police protection to the woman who submitted that she was receiving threats to her life. The woman's plea accused the CJP leaders of morphing and circulating her deepfake vulgar pictures with Prim
The Delhi High Court has observed that labourers in the country are "least paid and cared" for and that society has failed to value and respect their physical labour. The high court's observations came while deciding a man's appeal challenging his conviction and five-year sentence for assaulting a labourer when he objected to the nuisance created by the convict and others while he was trying to sleep. It modified the conviction of convict Veer Pal from the offence of attempt to murder to voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons, holding the requisite intention or knowledge to attract the former was not established in the facts of the case. The court also modified the five-year jail term to three years' imprisonment. "A back-breaking hard day's labour requires a sound peaceful sleep in the night to rejuvenate the body in order to enable it to assume and discharge next day's assignments which invariably involves hard physical work. "This has become a regular and unending plight
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking the registration of an FIR and a probe by an SIT or CBI into the purported discovery of huge stash of cash following a fire at the residence of former Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma. Terming the petition a "wild witch hunt", Justice Amit Bansal remarked that the petitioner, lawyer Ghanshyam Upadhyay, has alternative remedies in law. "I'm not entertaining this. This is a wild witch hunt. You have nothing better to do?" the judge observed. During the hearing, the court questioned the locus of the petitioner and asked why he did not approach the trial court with his plea for an FIR. The petitioner submitted that the incident was "extraordinary" in nature and the lower court "can't do justice to the matter". "This is regarding justice Yashwant Varma. Criminal law can be set into motion by anyone. There is no embargo," he further explained. After the court indicated that it would dismiss the plea, the petitioner
Seven judicial officers took the oath of office as Delhi High Court court judges on Monday, taking the strength of the court to 50. Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya administered the oath to Justices Nivedita Anil Sharma, Nisha Sahay Saxena, Sanjay Sharma, Bharat Parashar, Aditi Choudhary, Dinesh Bhatt and Arun Bhardwaj, who were serving as judicial officers in the district judiciary here. The swearing-in ceremony was held in the high court premises and after administering the oath, the chief justice congratulated the new judges. While Justices Sharma and Saxena took oath in English, the other five took the oath in Hindi. They have been appointed as additional judges of the high court. The central government notified the seven new appointments on September 19 after the Supreme Court collegium made a recommendation in favour of these judicial officers. The sanctioned strength of the high court is 60 and with the seven new appointments, its current strength has risen to 50.