The judge said that permission for prior sanction to prosecute Asthana was not required considering the facts of the case.
The court said the Delhi government was "interested in appropriation of power".
Absconding former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda on Monday moved the Delhi high court for anticipatory bail in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, four days after his bail plea was dismissed by a lower court.
The petition states that such yatras tend to create communal unrest in the country.
The Delhi high court on Friday stayed its single judge's order in which it had said that under the Right to Information Act, every citizen is entitled to know the donations given by the President of India.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approached the Gujarat high court seeking a review of its recent order setting aside the Central Information Commission's directive to the Gujarat University to provide information on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree to the AAP national convener.
In the wake of an attack on Aam Aadmi Party headquarters on Wednesday, a plea was hurriedly made in the Delhi high court for directions to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal not refuse security offered to him.
The Delhi high court on Friday said that veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari can be compelled to give blood sample for DNA test in the paternity suit filed by a youth claiming to be his biological son.
A key accused in the terror attack at the Delhi high court reception is willing to turn approver and has sought the trial court's permission for it.
Delhi High Court prevailed over industrialist Sunjay Kapur and his wife Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor on tuesday to talk to each other to sort out their differences amicably in the interest of their 5-month-old daughter Samaira.
Failing to get any reprieve from the Delhi high court, the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will move the Supreme Court soon against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate and maintained the excise policy case was the 'biggest political conspiracy of the country' to finish the party.
One person has been detained by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Delhi high court bombing last year. The person identified as Mohammed Ayub had figured during the interrogation of Wasim Akram, a medical student who is being touted as the main accused in the case by the probe agency, official sources said.
The Delhi high court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages.
It also issued notice to chairman of Sudarshan News, Suresh Chavhanke, Odisha Television Limited, Pittie Media LLP, Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Limited which is the owner of The Organiser, Voice of the Nation'.
A son, irrespective of his marital status, has no legal right to live in the self-acquired house of his parents and can reside there only at their "mercy", the Delhi high court has said.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday rebuked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for 'casting aspersions' on the judicial process with his claim about an approver in the money laundering case against him making donations to the Bharatiya Janata Party through electoral bonds, saying the law relating to approvers was over 100 years old and not enacted to falsely implicate the Aam Aadmi Party leader.
The Delhi high court has directed a Noida resident to remove her social media posts that alleged she found a centipede in a tub of Amul ice cream bought by her.
A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan refused to comment on the merits of the issue, saying the same fell outside the scope of judicial interference.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam member of Parliament Kanimozhi and three others, arrested for their alleged roles in the 2G spectrum allocation case, moved the Delhi high court for bail on Saturday.
The JNMF has denied the claims that it was in illegal possession of the property.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to grant interim relief to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the excise policy 'scam', saying the matter raises important issues that cannot be 'summarily' decided without seeking the agency's stand.
The Delhi high court on Friday declined any interim relief to unaided recognised private schools which have sought quashing of the notification on nursery admission guidelines.
Two persons from Kishtwar were arrested on Wednesday and charged with criminal conspiracy in connection with the terror mail traced to Jammu and Kashmir owning responsibility for the Delhi high court blast.
Amid protests against a proposed oil refinery in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, state industries minister Uday Samant on Tuesday said the current site for the mega project was suggested by then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, while the Opposition urged the government to stop soil survey work and be sensitive in handling the situation arising out of the agitation.
Seemandhra Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Lagadapati Rajagopal on Tuesday moved Delhi high court seeking its direction to Speaker Meira Kumar to accept his resignation as member of the House, submitted two months ago.
The third person arrested in connection with the Delhi High Court blast -- Amir Abbas Dev -- was remanded to seven days of police custody by a local court to enable the security agencies to question him.
Security agencies have detained Hafiz Aamir, a suspected Harkat ul Jehadi al Islami operative, for allegedly sending a terror email in the aftermath of the blast outside the Delhi high court on September 7. Aamir is understood to have told the investigators that an email claiming responsibility on behalf of the HuJI was sent on his directions, sources said on Thursday. Aamir, who has been detained in Kashmir's Kishtwar district, is alleged to be an operative of the HuJI.
A man injured in the Delhi high court blast succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, taking the death toll in the terror attack to 15. Rattan Lal, 58, died at 8.20 am in the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. He was in a serious condition and both his legs had been amputated, doctors said. He is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son."Yesterday, he had expressed his desire to meet his wife and son and we had agreed," the doctor said.
The high court made the observation while dismissing an appeal challenging an order which had rejected a petition seeking a direction to the Supreme Court collegiums to provide detailed reasons while refusing to accept recommendations for the appointment of high court judges.
She was 86 and passed away on Friday night at her residence in Noida.
The Court dismissed a petition filed by All Haryana Tourists Transport Welfare Association, a bulk of whose members are attached to Gurgaon call centres, seeking quashing of a circular issued by the Delhi Police (Traffic) asking them to fix the speed limit for their cabs at 40 kmph.
In a relief to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, the Delhi high court on Wednesday stayed the release and circulation of a book authored by advocate R K Anand on her controversial, tapped telephonic conversation with various high profile individuals.
The high court also said that Kejriwal's absence cannot allow students to go through the first term without free text books, writing material and uniform in schools under the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday sounded a state wide red-alert in the wake of the low intensity blast near the High Court in Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought reply from the government on an allegation by Zee-promoted Siti Cable Network that it deferred indefinitely the implementation of the CAS in the capital for extraneous and impermissible reasons.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday dismissed a plea for probe by the Bar Council of Delhi into the alleged CD row, purportedly involving senior advocate and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition challenging the government's decision to divest equity in the oil public sector units HPCL and BPCL as the findings of the Supreme Court relating to privatisation of Balco came in its way.
The Delhi high court has ordered removal of social media posts by Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Ragini Nayak alleging that veteran journalist Rajat Sharma used 'abusive language' during his show on the Lok Sabha election result day.
Terming the petition as "highly adventurous" and against the fundamental principles of the law, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora said courts do not make policy decisions and that it is for Parliament to decide on such issues.
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