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 Delhi High Court has denied bail to a man accused of raping a woman on a false promise of marriage, noting prima facie material that he had created and operated nine fake profiles on a matrimonial website, using different names, ages and occupations, and even posing as a woman, to target victims. Justice Girish Kathpalia declined bail with the trial at an advanced stage, clarifying that nothing said would prejudice either side at trial.
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. […]
The Delhi High Court has refused to quash a POCSO and rape case on the basis of a compromise stated to have been reached with the victim’s family, holding that a child victim or their family cannot compromise an offence under the POCSO Act. Relying on the Supreme Court’s decision in Gian Singh, Justice Sachin Datta held that heinous and serious sexual offences are not private in nature and cannot be quashed on settlement.
The Delhi High Court has directed the government to sanction extraordinary leave to a doctor in its service so that he can pursue a Super-Speciality DNB course in cardiology, holding that interdicting his higher education would violate his valuable rights. Justice Jasmeet Singh balanced the employer’s interest in the doctor’s five-year service bond by securing it through an indemnity undertaking and an undated cheque for Rs 61 lakh, rather than denying the leave.
The Delhi High Court has set aside both the grant of bail to a man accused of bank fraud, premised on a monetary settlement with the bank, and its later cancellation for breach of that settlement, holding that the liberty of an accused cannot be made to depend on the performance of a monetary settlement with the complainant. A criminal court, Justice Sanjeev Narula reiterated, is not a recovery agent. The bail application was remitted for fresh consideration on merits.