A 75-year-old Delhi woman lost her savings, her gold and her Rs 2 crore house to fraudsters posing as CBI and ED officers, in a ‘digital arrest’ scam that moved from video calls to a property sale at her doorstep. Delhi Police have told the Delhi High Court, where her daughter sought a CBI probe, that a Cambodia-based gang was behind the fraud.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed NSUI presidential candidate Vijay Shankar Meena’s plea challenging the DUSU election results over alleged partisan campaigning by university officials, finding the photographs relied on undated and lacking particulars, while recording Delhi University’s assurance to decide his representation expeditiously.
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a revision against the rejection of an application under Section 311 CrPC to recall the complainant in a cheque dishonour case, holding that witnesses cannot be recalled routinely and that a counsel being held up in another court on the date is not sufficient ground, since the case has been pending since 2018.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi government to constitute an independent multidisciplinary Medical Board to decide, within four weeks, on parents’ request for a hysterectomy for their adult daughter with cerebral palsy, holding that disability alone can never be the only ground to deny reproductive autonomy and that its order is not an approval of the surgery.
The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on counsel for the decree holders in proceedings to enforce an arbitral award against NHAI, for appearing in a virtual hearing from a moving car, holding that this violates the Court’s Electronic Evidence and Video Conferencing Rules, 2025 and disrupts proceedings.
The Delhi High Court has set aside a trial court order granting regular bail to a man accused of rape on a false promise of marriage, holding that the prosecutrix was entitled to be heard, and has sent the bail application back for a fresh decision within two weeks, without expressing a view on the merits.
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has cautioned a jail warden after viewing CCTV footage of a June 26 incident in which he hit inmates with a stick, holding that beating inmates after the situation was under control was unnecessary and impermissible, and directed medical care for an appellant in the case who could not afford surgery for a fracture.