Granting regular bail to a man accused as a conspirator in a firing incident outside a Delhi club, the Delhi High Court reiterated that bail is the rule and jail the exception, noting that the investigation was complete, he had no antecedents, was not present at the spot, and had already spent eight months in […]
The Delhi High Court issued notice to OpenAI on ANI’s appeal against the single judge’s refusal of an interim injunction, in which AI training on news content was held prima facie to be fair dealing. The Division Bench declined to direct anything on an earlier scraping undertaking before hearing OpenAI, and listed the matter for December 5.
Instead of sending a payment aggregator’s suit for pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, the Delhi High Court requested the Reserve Bank of India to depute a senior officer to mediate within thirty days, and froze all interchange-related deductions from the plaintiff’s escrow account in the meantime.
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
After the applicant was granted pardon and became an approver, the State argued that a regular bail application was no longer maintainable. The Delhi High Court treated the plea as one under its inherent jurisdiction and held that the statutory bar on releasing an approver under Section 343(4)(b) of the BNSS operates only against the Trial Court.
With 40 of 120 witnesses examined and the appellant in custody since December 2018, the Delhi High Court granted bail in an NIA case, holding that a High Court must decide on the law as it stands even though the interplay between Article 21 and Section 43D(5) of the UAPA has been referred to a larger Bench.
The Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition by the master licensee of the VIMAL brand challenging a show cause notice issued by the Maharashtra FDA to three brand ambassadors, holding that neither the location of FSSAI in Delhi nor the petitioner’s own base there could confer territorial jurisdiction. The merits were left untouched.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of the song “Shoorveer” from the climax of “Mirzapur: The Movie,” the petitioner contending that a track originally composed as a tribute to Maharana Pratap has been used over gangster scenes in a way that glorifies criminals and hurts public […]
The Delhi High Court has reduced a man’s sentence to the roughly two years he had already spent in custody in a 2009 kidnapping-and-rape case involving a 14-year-old, citing the passage of 17 years, the parties now being settled in separate marriages, and the wider debate over adolescent relationships and the age of consent. New […]
The Delhi High Court has directed authorities across the country not to allow any GST registration without biometric Aadhaar authentication, acting to curb rampant fraudulent registrations obtained using the stolen PAN and Aadhaar details of innocent citizens. New Delhi: In a significant order aimed at checking large-scale identity-based tax fraud, the Delhi High Court has […]