Court dismisses Kailash Satyarthi's plea in 1997 suitNobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi's plea seeking a direction to trustees of a charitable trust, who have filed a suit against him in 1997, t...
'Builders delaying projects liable to pay damages to buyers'The court said non-completion of work within stipulated time or any deficiency in service was an actionable claim.
Public can now sue government officials for inactionThe move of seeking such damages, a first in the country except in defamation cases, if put to use effectively is likely to make public ser...
Court pulls up brothers for filing appeal after 10 yearsThe court said that after failing to secure the desired relief, the appellants have filed the plea "belatedly after more than 10 years of t...
Court slams banks for filing suits faking jurisdictionIt also said that Arora, being a resident of Jalandhar, had used the credit card facility in Punjab and not in Delhi.
Conversion claim: St Stephen's Principal dragged to courtThe court issued notices to Thampu and Mukarji on Dash's plaint in which he has sought Rs five lakh as damages from them for allegedly tarn...
Voluntary castration not an offence, says Delhi courtThe court said that while acquitting two persons of the charges of forcibly castrating a man as the victim had himself opted for emasculati...
Create mechanism for implementing orders: Court to Delhi PoliceCourt has asked the city government and Delhi Police to create a mechanism for ensuring implementation and compliance of judicial orders.
Police asked to invoke special law on sexual crimes against childrenThe court made the observations while sentencing Vikram Singh to life imprisonment and Tejender Singh to 10 years in jail for gang-raping a...
- Rape case: FSL pulled up for having non-competent officers
Justice Kamini Lau noted that in the DNA report of the experts of Rohini-based FSL, it was stated that DNA could not be "isolated" from the...
- Delhi rape: FSL pulled up for delay in delivering DNA reports
The case related to the rape of a minor allegedly by her uncle, who was living in her house and had been repeatedly assaulting her sexually...
Kangaroo courts biggest threat to Indian democracy: CourtAdditional Sessions Judge said "such self-styled local leaders cannot be permitted to takeover the legally-constituted courts" and their th...
- Court asks government to probe into CWC functioning
The court also said as per available records, the issue raised by the NGO appears to be genuine and it cannot be ignored due to the serious...
- Pvt complaint can't be used to prosecute public servant: Court
A private person's complaint cannot be used by a metropolitan magistrate to prosecute a public servant for works undertaken by him during t...
- 'No charges for default services'
Trashing the contentions of the arbitrator, the court held that Narayan was not entitled to make payment of any amount of the STD call char...
- Katara case: Police files chargesheet
Delhi Police files chargesheet in the human trafficking case involving suspended BJP MP Babubhai Katara.
- Order on Kohli's extradition tomorrow
The final order on the extradition of NRI Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, accused in the rape-cum-murder case of British teenager Hannah Foster, ...