The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking to make Indian citizenship a pre-requisite for a person to be appointed as the editor of a publication.
The court's observations came during hearing of plea by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy who has sought a court-monitored CBI-led special investigation probe into Pushkar's death.
During the hearing, CBI said charges against Asthana are serious and the agency was investigating the matter and is likely to add more offences in the FIR.
The Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Barkha Singh's counsel said that "there are no proceedings pending in the case" before the body.
The breakaway group wants the court to restrain the BCCI from "intimidating" its players and interfering in its affairs.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday rejected the bail application of Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam Member of Parliament and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi.The court also rejected the bail application of Kalaignar TV Managing Director Sharad Kumar.The DMK MP had stated that she should be granted bail since she has a young son to look after and her husband lives abroad. She pointed out that she was the only woman who has been jailed for 2G scam.
"The documentary evidence attesting the allegation was discovered by the reporters of Mid Day from the official website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs," he said.
The other two accused in National Herald case are Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, but they had not moved the high court against summoning of the documents and balance sheet.
The Delhi high court on Monday held that doctors of government hospitals are not allowed to go on strike and directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences authorities to find out and punish those medical practitioners who had resorted to such a method of protest in recent years.
Tejaswin Shankar opened Indian athletics team's medal account with a bronze in the men's high jump event in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Wednesday.
In another application of Bharti regarding that she should not be given police protection, Justice Sikri directed the Delhi Police to maintain law and order within the Patiala court premises.
She was 86 and passed away on Friday night at her residence in Noida.
Media trials tend to influence judges by subconsciously creating a pressure, the Delhi high court observed.
Directing the government to file an additional affidavit, the bench asked it to detail the steps taken to maintain water bodies and to control mosquito breeding, which was a cause for outbreak of dengue disease in the capital.
Delhi HC said, with reference to the Greenpeace activist, that difference of opinion does not mean being anti-national.
Holding that Naik's foundation's plea challenging the Centre's decision has "no merit", the court said the order of the government was "not arbitrary and illegal".
Petitioners have complained that the demolitions were illegal and causing huge losses.
The expelled MPs Narendra Kumar Kushwar (Mirzapur, UP) and Manoj Kumar (Palmur, RJD) wanted the court to set aside the order of the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and restore their membership.\n
HC stated that the matter had to be dealt with by appropriate authorities.
Amazon has filed a legal challenge at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) suspension of the US e-commerce giant's 2019 deal with Future Retail (FRL). Amazon has challenged the CCI order on at least five grounds, and the matter is likely to be listed this week, according to the sources. Parallelly, Amazon's Indian unit has approached the Supreme Court against a halt on an arbitration case against Future Retail's (FRL) asset sale to Reliance Industries (RIL).
A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and S P Garg allowed National Investigation Agency's plea against the trial court order, which had dropped stringent penal charge of 'waging war against the government' against Malik, who is facing trial in the September 7, 2011 attack case, in which 15 people were killed and 79 others were injured.
In a major success, security forces on Sunday shot dead two top Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists, including an accused in the Delhi high court blast, during an encounter in Sopore area of Kashmir.
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, asked the Delhi High Court to decide by July end the appeal challenging a trial court order discharging several cricketers, including S Sreesanth, in the sensational IPL spot-fixing case.
The trial against Wasim Akram Malik, arrested by the National Investigation Agency for his alleged role in the Delhi high court attack last year, will commence in a court in New Delhi on Monday.
A court in New Delhi on Monday paved the way for trial of Wasim Akram Malik for his alleged role in the terror attack at the Delhi high court last year, framing charges against him under the anti-terror law.
Najeeb went missing from JNU's Mahi-Mandvi hostel on October 15 allegedly after an on-campus scuffle between him and some members of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The ABVP has denied involvement in his disappearance.
The Delhi High Court has issued notices to all of the accused involved in the sixth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing case after admitting the Delhi Police plea against their acquittal by a trial court.
Prime accused in the Delhi high court blast Amir Ali was among two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists killed on Monday in a fierce gunbattle with Army troops in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The plea sought a ban on wearing face veils including burqas, helmets, hoods etc at public places on the ground of threat from terror activities.
Former Delhi high court judge Reva Khetrapal will be Delhi's new Lokayukta, a post which was lying vacant since 2013.
A Kerala-based organisation moved the Delhi high court on Friday against the Centre's last-minute decision to deny triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary the prestigious Arjuna award in 2013.
Gay activists and the non governmental organisation which fought an eight-year-long legal battle for their rights on Thursday hailed the Delhi High Court verdict legalising homosexuality as 'progressive'. "Now it seems we are in 21st century as the rights of homosexuals have been recognised by the high court. This very progressive judgment recognises the right to equality," said Anjali Gopalan, founder of Naz foundation, the NGO which filed the petition in HC.
The Delhi high court on Monday sought response of the Aam Aadmi Party government on a public interest litigation seeking direction to immediately release funds allocated for malaria and dengue control programmes to municipal bodies in the capital.
A massive search operation has been launched to find whether Junaid Akram Malik, wanted by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Delhi high court blast, and one of his uncle are alive.
Questions are being raised on whether Junaid Akram Malik, wanted by National Investigation Agency in connection with the Delhi high court blast, is alive.
The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday filed a chargesheet in a New Delhi court against six persons in the September 7, 2011 Delhi high court blast case in which 17 people were killed and over 90 were injured.
In a relief to pharma majors, the Delhi high court today held as "illegal and unsustainable" the Centre's decision to put a ceiling on the price of condoms, including the luxury variety.
Compliance requirements, valuation, input tax credit transfers are likely to lead to tax litigation, says Sayan Ghosal.
In a relief for former telecom minister Sukhram, the Delhi high court on Monday suspended the five year sentence awarded to him in a graft case and granted him bail.
