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The Delhi chief minister may have to do a lot of explaining for giving preferential treatment to the son of former Union and Haryana minister and Congress MLA Venod Sharma, ignoring the fact that he's a life convict and dozens of other inmates in the...
Tags: Delhi High Court, New Delhi, preferential treatment, India, Murder of Jessica Lall, Parole, Venod Sharma, Murder, Sheila Dikshit, Criminal law, Manu Sharma, Crime in India, Law Crime, Tihar Prisons
The Delhi High Court Wednesday objected to an indoor basketball stadium being built in a park in west Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to restore the premises to its old form. A division bench of...
Tags: MCD, Delhi High Court, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Delhi Development Authority, India, New Delhi, Delhi, Commonwealth Games
CBI on Friday opposed the plea of an advocate opposing withdrawal of the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in a Delhi court, saying a private party has no locus standi in it. "Publicity and politics" have no...
Tags: CBI, Ottavio Quattrocchi, Delhi High Court, private party, SP Hinduja, businessman ottavio, P P Hinduja
She refused to say anything more on the issue, maintaining that she was not authorised to "explain" further as the matter related to Cabinet proceedings. The Cabinet decided against taking any stand on the issue to avoid getting caught in any controversy,...
Tags: Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, union cabinet, India, Mumbai
The Union government on Thursday said that it won't oppose the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality. It also said that it was up to the Supreme Court to take a final decision on the issue. Following a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired...
Tags: Union Cabinet, Supreme Court, attorney general, Delhi High Court, gay sex, decriminalising homosexuality, prime minister, India, New Delhi
Delhi's child-rights panel on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court opposing a high court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, saying it would permit sex between men as young as 18. United Kingdom permit homosexuality between adults above the age of 21. Admitting...
Tags: Delhi High Court, rights panel, child rights, India, New Delhi
Rakesh Bhatnagar / DNA Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:56 IST New Delhi: Thanks to its earlier timidity on the disclosure of judges' assets, the Supreme Court finds itself in a piquant situation where a high court has ruled against it.
Tags: Supreme Court, public authority, chief justices, CJI, Delhi High Court, rti act, Chief Justice of India, RTI
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided against opposing the July 2 judgment of the Delhi High Court striking down provisions in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalised same-gender, consensual sex. The Union Government is...
Tags: Delhi High Court
While allowing the Central Vigilance Commission inquiry, a Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan stayed the other part of the High Court order, which said that said that the day-to-day functioning of Prasar Bharati will be carried...
Tags: Prasar Bharati, Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court verdict de-criminalising sex between consenting adults of the same sex has been highly acclaimed by union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily as a "well-documented and well-researched" ruling on a difficult subject that stands out "in...