New Delhi :The way graveyards are expanding in the national capital, there would be no place to live, the Delhi High Court observed (July 4). Asking the authorities to find out about the burial practices prevailing elsewhere in the world, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said as […]
New Delhi: In case you haven’t noticed, two NGO ‘stalwarts’ are battling it out in court, slamming cases against one another … one is the Narbada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, who had a non-bailable warrant issued against her. Read on … NBA activist Medha Patkar has got a relief from a Delhi court which […]
New Delhi, Jun 6 Does a woman forfeit her right to her parent’s property because she converted from Hinduism to Islam? That’s the question before a Delhi court which is hearing a civil suit from a 33-year-old woman claiming a share of the property purchased by her deceased father. Her two brothers say she no […]
New Delhi: Foreigners who don’t know about Indian laws may find themselves in a pickle. Now, the Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to inform the embassies and the high commissions in India to advise their citizens about the local laws while travelling to India. The direction comes amid a rise in cases lodged against foreigners, found […]
Public interest litigation (PIL) cannot be used as a “weapon to challenge financial or economic decisions”, the RBI has told the Delhi High Court opposing a plea against the surcharge on credit and debit card transactions. The plea has alleged that the surcharge levied by the banks and the financial institutions on credit and debit […]
New Delhi: The right to contest an election from jail does not give anyone the right to be released for campaigning, the Delhi High Court said ( Feb 27) while rejecting custody parole to MLA Mukhtar Ansari to canvass for himself in the UP assembly polls. “A right to contest the election cannot imply that […]
New Delhi: Can a person who has no family donor be allowed to advertise to get a volunteer for a kidney transplant? This is a question on which the Delhi High Court today sought the views of the government. The issue was raised by a patient who drew the attention of the court that in […]
On February 17, the Delhi High Court asked Delhi state government to inform it about the reasons behind the death of 11 patients at a home for mentally retarded in a span of two months and the steps they have taken in the matter so far. The query came as a response to a social […]
New Delhi: “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of […]
