Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has restrained several Facebook and YouTube accounts from infringing the personality and publicity rights of journalist Rajat Sharma and directed the platforms to take down such content, including AI-generated deepfake videos. In a final order passed on August 24, Justice Jyoti Singh decreed the lawsuit by the India TV chairman and editor-in-chief in his favour and against certain social media accounts. Justice Singh said Sharma was free to approach Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC which run Facebook and YouTube, respectively, against any infringing content that directly or indirectly misuses, misappropriates or exploits his name, likeness, image, voice, photos, videos or any other aspect of his persona. "Concerned Defendant(s) shall acknowledge the request within 24 hours and take action within 36 hours thereafter," the court ordered. Sharma's counsel argued that he is a renowned journalist with an impeccable reputation and has been the face of Indian ...

The Delhi High Court has sought the stand of the Centre and the city administration on a plea to constitute the Delhi Waqf Board. Justice Anish Dayal issued notice to the governments on a petition seeking directions to them to complete the statutory process for constitution of the Board in accordance with the Waqf Act of 1995, as amended by the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The petitioner's lawyer contended that after the expiry of the tenure of the last Delhi Waqf Board in August 2023, no steps have been taken for constitution of a fresh Board. In the meantime, an administrator was appointed in January 2024 by the Delhi government, but the board was yet to constituted despite a statutory mandate, it was argued. On September 8, Justice Dayal gave four weeks to the Delhi government and Centre to file their replies. The petitioner, Mohd Shahid, said in his plea that even after the 2025 amendment, Parliament has retained the statutory obligation to constitute a Waqf Board for every Sta

The Delhi High Court has ordered that Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration is no longer permissible without biometric-based Aadhaar authentication. A bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Shail Jain passed the order on petitions alleging fraudulent GST registrations using the petitioners' PAN card and Aadhaar card numbers. In the order passed on September 8, the bench observed that earlier, while answering a question on fraudulent GST registration in Parliament, the minister concerned disclosed that in 2023-2024, there were 2,800 fraudulent GST registrations involving Rs 15,085 crore of tax evasion, and that in 20242025, there were 1,654 fraudulent registrations and 13,109 crore of tax evasion were detected. The bench said although it was also disclosed that biometric authentication through Aadhaar would be mandatory for GST registration, the statement had not yet been implemented, which resulted in continuous fake registrations using stolen or frozen PAN/Aadhaar details. Notin

Court says comparative advertising may amount to disparagement if its overall impression is false or deceptive; directs Beco to remove disputed advertisements within a week

Court takes note of misuse of stolen or frozen PAN and Aadhaar details, asks authorities to examine additional safeguards against fraudulent GST registrations

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre, city government and Delhi University on a plea by the NSUI president seeking hostel facility in all the colleges of Delhi University. The public interest litigation (PIL) raised the issue of "acute and long standing shortage of affordable and adequate institutional hostel accommodation for students studying in the Delhi University. The plea by National Students' Union of India (NSUI) president Vinod Jakhar has been filed in the wake of the collapse of a Satya Niketan building, which was being used as a private paying guest accommodation by students, on September 6 resulting in the death of seven persons and several injured. A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the Central government, Delhi government and Delhi University and asked them to file their replies on the petition. The court listed the petition for September 25 and tagged it with another similar matter ...

Delhi High Court dismisses UltraTech Cement's challenge to CCI decision

News agency challenges single-judge decision declining interim protection in copyright infringement case against OpenAI; matter will be taken up on September 14

Centre seeks transfer of petitions pending before various High Courts, including Anil Ambani's cases in Bombay HC, citing parallel proceedings and delays

The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed urgent listing of a PIL relating to the building collapse incident in Satya Niketan here that left six people dead and several others injured. A lawyer mentioned the matter for urgent hearing before a bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia which allowed it to be listed during the day. The lawyer said, "yesterday one tragic incident happened in Satya Niketan area in South Delhi where two buildings suddenly collapsed and around 30 students are feared trapped under the debris". The building, which housed a boys' paying guest accommodation near Delhi University's South Campus, collapsed on Sunday while repair work was underway.

Court says booth-level agents can be held liable only for information they can independently verify; Congress leaders had challenged ECI's undertaking requirement

The Delhi High Court has sought response of Centre and FSSAI on a plea challenging show cause notice prohibiting manufacture and sale of 'Fortune Soya Health Refined Soyabean Oil' for alleged misleading label declarations and claims. Petitioner AWL Agri Business Limited received Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) notices over claims of being "100% Veg" and "Cholesterol Free For Healthy Lifestyle", for its product, 'Fortune Soya Health Refined Soyabean Oil'. The respondent authorities opposed the maintainability of the petition on the ground of territorial jurisdiction and submitted that no part of the cause of action arose within the territorial jurisdiction of the Delhi High Court as the company was based in Gujarat and the product was manufactured and marketed from outside Delhi. However, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma held that the petition cannot be held to be lacking in territorial jurisdiction and the foundational actions which are directly impugned by the ...

Court seeks reconstruction of Singh brothers' share and asset trail

SpiceJet cited delays in receiving government-backed financial support as it sought more time to meet its payment obligations to KAL Airways and Kalanithi Maran

Court passes interim order after ITC challenges improvement notice over "100% Atta", "100% Madhya Pradesh Wheat" and "0% Maida" claims on Aashirvaad packaging

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the FSSAI not to cancel for the time being ITC Ltd's licence over failure to comply with directives asking the conglomerate to remove all "100 per cent" claims in relation to its product, 'Aashirvaad M.P Chakki Atta'. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma granted interim protection to ITC on its petition challenging the FSSAI advisories and notices to discontinue the usage of the term "100%" for its product or face suspension of FSSAI License. "Since the issue regarding jurisdiction is to be decided and the courts will be closed, till the next date of hearing, no decision regarding cancellation of the license will be taken," Justice Sharma said as it listed the case for hearing on September 9. Justice Sharma also said that she would pass an order on Monday, August 31, on the maintainability of a separate petition by AWL Agri Business Limited against FSSAI. AWL Agri Business Limited received FSSAI notices over allegedly misleading label declarations and

Why are Delhi's public prosecutors opposing mandatory biometric attendance? The dispute centres on whether a fixed attendance system fits the nature of their court duties

The court held that a refund arising from an assessment or appellate order cannot be withheld merely because the taxpayer has not furnished Form 26B

HUL argued that Beco's online sales to Delhi consumers establish a commercial link with the city, while Kwick Living questioned the court's territorial jurisdiction

Guangwen Kuang has challenged a Delhi High Court order refusing him permission to visit his ailing 82-year-old father in China amid an ongoing PMLA case