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Delhi HC asks SpiceJet to pay Rs 50 cr or face grounding of two engines

Justice Pratibha Singh instructed the SpiceJet counsel to obtain guidance by May 3 regarding the feasible time period for SpiceJet to pay Rs 50 crore to its lessors

DGCA deregisters all 54 aircraft leased to Go First after Delhi HC order

The Delhi High Court, on April 26, directed the DGCA to deregister planes leased to Go First within five working days, providing much-needed relief to the lessors

Meta's situation is worse than a government department: Delhi High Court

TV Today had moved the High Court after Harper's Bazaar India's Instagram page (@bazaarindia) was blocked on a third party's complaint of copyright violation

NewsClick UAPA case: Court takes cognisance on Delhi police's chargesheet

The Additional Sessions Judge, Dr Hardeep Kaur, fixed May 31 for arguments on charges while taking cognisance of the chargesheet

Why is WhatsApp thinking about packing up and leaving India?

Recently, WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court that if it is made to break encryption of messages, then the social media platform would exit India. Watch the video to know about the details of the case.

Deregister Go First aircraft in five days, Delhi High Court tells DGCA

This means that the airline has to give back all 54 aircraft to the lessors if its Resolution Professional does not challenge the order or ask for the stay of the order

Why is WhatsApp threatening to leave India? Everything you need to know

WhatsApp is currently contesting the IT Rules case in India, wherein it faces the prospect of being compelled to compromise chat encryption to aid the government in message tracing

Will cease to exist in India if made to break encryption: WhatsApp tells HC

WhatsApp said that people use its platform because end-to-end messages are encrypted, ensuring privacy

Umar Khalid's lawyer asks court whether sharing messages is terror act

Rebutting the Delhi Police's argument that former JNU student Umar Khalid was creating social media narratives to influence bail hearings, his lawyer on Wednesday asked the court whether sharing WhatsApp messages is a criminal or terror act. Khalid is an accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. He has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai was hearing the second bail plea of Khalid before the special court. "The special public prosecutor (SPP) says I created narratives. Is sharing messages (on WhatsApp) a criminal or terror act?... Is the court able to see the ridiculousness of their (prosecution's) attempts to keep someone in jail? Is it wrong for me to forward a message saying someone is wrongly incarcerated? No," Khalid's counsel senior advocate Trideep Pais said. SPP Amit Prasad had earlier said the data from Khalid's mobile phone revealed that he was in

Delhi HC rejects PIL for Arvind Kejriwal's bail, slaps Rs 75,000 fine

The high court ruled that the plea for Arvind Kejriwal's 'extraordinary interim bail', filed by a fourth-year law student under the name 'We the People of India', was inadmissible

Excise case: Delhi HC to hear Kejriwal's plea against ED summons on Monday

The Delhi High Court will on Monday hear Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's petition challenging the summonses issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into an excise policy-linked money laundering case. Kejriwal, arrested by the agency on March 21 after the high court refused to grant him interim protection from coercive action, has also challenged the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act with respect to arrest, questioning and grant of bail. The plea is scheduled for hearing before the bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Manoj Jain. The AAP national convenor had approached the high court in the wake of the ninth summons issued by the ED asking him to appear before it on March 21. The high court bench on March 20 asked the ED to file its reply with respect to the maintainability of the petition. The next day, it asked ED to also respond to Kejriwal's plea seeking protection from arrest, ..

Person can't be deprived of right to livelihood merely due to old age: HC

A person can't be deprived of right to livelihood and to live with dignity merely on account of old age and frail health, the Delhi High Court has observed while upholding an order directing eviction of a tenant from a property which is now required by a landlord for carrying out his business. The high court rejected the stand taken by the tenant that looking at the old age and health of the landlord, it was not believable that he would carry out any business from the premises which was sought to be vacated. The high court dismissed the petition by the tenant challenging an order of an additional rent controller (ARC) which had passed the eviction order. "The bona fides of the requirement set up by the landlord cannot be shrouded with doubts on such presumptive arguments. Merely because the landlord suffers old age and frail health, it cannot be presumed that he does not require the tenanted premises to run his business or is not capable of earning livelihood," Justice Girish ...

Travel info personal, cannot be disclosed to 3rd party under RTI: Delhi HC

Information related to travel is personal in nature and such details cannot be divulged to a third party under the Right to Information (RTI) Act unless it is in the larger public interest, the Delhi High Court has said. The court has refused to interfere with an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) that dismissed a plea moved by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui, a death row convict in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case. Siddiqui had sought information under the RTI Act regarding the travel entries (departure and arrival) of Mohammad Alam Gulam Sabir Quraishi from the Mumbai airport to Hong Kong or China between January 1, 2006 and June 30, 2006 made with the Foreigners' Regional Registration Office (FRRO) or Immigration Office. He had challenged the CIC's January 2022 order that denied the information to him. "The travel information of any person is personal information and such details cannot be divulged to a third party unless the same is in the larger public interest, .

No bar on political parties from contesting municipal polls: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has said there is no bar under the Constitution on political parties, which are granted recognition by the State Election Commission (SEC), from contesting municipal polls. The court has also said the allocation of poll symbols to political parties by the SEC for municipal elections is reasonable and not arbitrary. The court passed an order to this effect while dismissing a petition that had sought a direction to the SEC here to stop putting the reserved symbols for political parties on the list of contesting candidates. The plea had also sought a direction to the SEC to conduct the election to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) without the reserved symbols, which allegedly violated the petitioner's fundamental rights as enshrined under Article 14 (equality before law) of the Constitution. "In light of the law laid down by the Supreme Court, the recognition granted by the SEC to the political parties to contest municipal elections is within its jurisdicti

Liquor policy case: Kejriwal's plea seeking more time with lawyers rejected

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal had filed an application to increase his legal meetings from twice a week to five times a week

Liquor policy case: Arvind Kejriwal moves Supreme Court against arrest

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has approached the Supreme Court following the Delhi High Court's dismissal of his plea challenging his arrest in the liquor policy case

Plea against use of INDIA acronym politically motivated: Congress to HC

The Congress on Tuesday opposed in the Delhi High Court a petition against the use of acronym INDIA, saying it is a "politically motivated" plea and shall be dismissed with exemplary costs. The Congress said the petitioner has failed to establish the very basis of the petition, that the name of the alliance has caused confusion amongst the voters and misled them into voting for the alliance solely on the basis of the acronym and "as a matter of national duty". "The petitioner has also failed to provide any evidence with respect to use of 'I.N.D.I.A' as an acronym for an alliance as 'diminishing goodwill' of the nation in global politics," the Congress said in its reply filed to the petition. The reply was filed in a public interest litigation which alleged that by using the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) acronym, the parties were taking "undue advantage in the name of our country". A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet P S Arora is .

Delhi HC denies Arvind Kejriwal's plea against arrest, CM to remain in jail

The Delhi High Court stated that the Delhi chief minister "conspired with others" and was "actively involved in using proceeds of crime

HC slams Delhi's education dept. for 'terrible conditions' of govt schools

Calling it 'a sad state of affairs', the court questioned how children were expected to study in a tin building in high temperatures

Heavy costs should be imposed': Delhi HC on plea to remove Kejriwal as CM

A plea was filed by former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Sandeep Kumar seeking to dislodge Arvind Kejriwal from holding the post of Delhi chief minister