The Delhi High Court has granted anticipatory bail to an elderly man accused by his daughter-in-law of sexual misconduct and other offences in a matrimonial FIR, citing the four-year delay in the complaint, the absence of specific dates, and the lack of any real need for custodial interrogation, while cautioning that its observations are only for bail.
The Delhi High Court has granted police protection to a woman who alleges that Cockroach Janta Party leaders circulated a deepfake image of her alongside PM Narendra Modi, and has directed Meta to remove the objectionable content within 24 hours. Issuing notice to the four leaders, Justice Girish Kathpalia devised a mechanism to keep the woman’s address confidential while ensuring her protection. The allegations are untested and the leaders are presumed innocent.
The Delhi High Court has agreed to urgently hear a woman’s plea alleging that leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party morphed her photograph using AI face-swapping tools onto an explicit image and circulated it, including on pornographic websites, and seeking its takedown and police protection. The allegations are those of the petitioner and are untested; the accused are entitled to the presumption of innocence, and the woman’s identity is protected.
The Delhi High Court has declined to suspend the life sentence of a man convicted of the aggravated penetrative sexual assault of a child, while admitting his appeal. Considering the evidence, including the forensic material, the Court found it not a fit case to suspend the sentence at this stage, and directed the Legal Services Authority to hand the survivor the compensation awarded and a message written to her by the trial judge.
The Delhi High Court has granted regular bail to an accused in an Enforcement Directorate money-laundering case linked to alleged terror funding, holding that nearly four years of pre-trial detention, with the trial far from conclusion and no delay attributable to him, outweighs the stringent bail bar under Section 45 of the PMLA. The twin conditions of Section 45, though mandatory, must yield to the constitutional right to a speedy trial, the Court held.
The owners of the Satya Niketan PG building that collapsed this month, killing seven, failed to ensure structural safety and carried out unpermitted alterations without consulting any qualified structural engineer or architect, the Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court in a status report, even as it said the exact cause of the collapse […]
The Delhi High Court denied anticipatory bail to social-media commentator Ajeet Bharti in an SC/ST Atrocities Act case over a video allegedly containing caste-based slurs aimed at MP Chandrashekhar Azad, holding that a prima facie case of caste-based humiliation is made out and that the statutory bar on anticipatory bail under the Act applies. New […]
The Delhi High Court issued notice on a plea by the caretaking committee of the Qadeemi Masjid, located within the Krishi Bhavan compound, seeking continuity of a prayer facility amid the Central Vista redevelopment. The petitioners clarified that they do not oppose the project and seek no stay, only an assured, proximate place to pray. […]