Delhi High Court - The Purbottar

01 Apr

Delhi HC Allows Reopening Of Five Floors Of Masjid In Nizamuddin Markaz During Ramzan

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The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the use of 5 floors - ground and 4 others - during the month of Ramzan, quashing the police order to enable prayers only on the four floors of the Markaz Nizamuddin Mosque. While hearing the Delhi Waqf Board's plea to relax the restrictions on the Markaz, Justice Jasmeet Singh confused the police restrictions on the use of all floors and asked whether, in times of Covid, is it better for devotees to be spread over 5 floors or to limit them to foor? Floor "Is there a reason, tell us?" Justice Singh…

01 Sep

Delhi HC issues notice on plea challenging Asthana’s appointment as top cop

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as Commissioner of Delhi Police. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), submitted before a bench comprising chief justice D.N. Patel and justice Jyoti Singh that the petitioner has directly copy pasted from its plea filed at the top court. He stressed that this is violation of the Delhi High Court Rules. The counsel for the petitioner denied any copy paste job. The high court allowed Bhushan’s intervention application and issued notice in the matter. The matter is scheduled for…

14 Jul

CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 board exams were cancelled, Will exam fees are refunded?

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has been directed by the Delhi high court to decide if it would refund the examination fees taken for class 10 and class 12 board examinations. The high court has given eight weeks to CBSE to decide on the issue. The board exams of the two classes were cancelled due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. The high court's order came on a petition filed by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school in New Delhi. She had paid ₹2,100 as an examination fee. Joseph's counsel contended…

16 Jun

Holding protest not terror act: Delhi High Court

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Protesting without arms is a fundamental right and not a “terrorist activity”, the Delhi high court said on Tuesday, granting bail to three university students jailed under stringent anti-terror provisions in connection with the north-east Delhi riots last year. A division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup J Bhambhani didn’t mince words in three separate bail orders, saying it was “constrained to say that it appears that in its anxiety to suppress dissent and in the morbid fear that matters may get out of hand, the state has blurred the line between the constitutionally guaranteed ‘right to protest’ and…

03 Jun

Delhi HC issues summons to Ramdev over Patanjali’s Coronil.

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The high court also asked Ramdev's counsel orally to tell him not to make any provocative statement till the next date of hearing on July 13 and respond to the suit. The Delhi high court on Thursday issued summons to yoga guru Ramdev on a suit by Delhi Medical Association (DMA). The DMA said in its petition that Ramdev's company Patanjali is propagating false information about its Coronil kit that it is a cure for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The DMA, on behalf of its doctor members advocate Rajiv Dutta, who represented the DMA, said Ramdev's statement in public is…

31 May

Delhi HC directs West Bengal to relieve IAS officer

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The Delhi High Court directed the West Bengal Government to relieve an IAS officer of the State cadre declining the plea of the State that stated “There is an extreme shortage of officers as a number of officers have sought transfer from the West Bengal cadre on account of their marriage to officers belonging to other State cadres.” The Court dismissed the State’s petition against the decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) ordering the State to permit a no-objection certificate (NOC) to IAS officer Gandharva Rathore for cadre transfer of her husband’s, an IAS officer in Himachal Pradesh. The…

04 May

“You Can Bury Your Head In Sand Like Ostrich”: Court Raps Centre

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The Central government's failure to implement the Delhi High Court's order on immediate supply of full quota of oxygen to Delhi evoked the judges' wrath today. The court -- which had ordered that Delhi must be given its full quota of oxygen "by whatever means" -- asked the government to explain why a contempt case should not be initiated against it. "Enough is enough. We will not take a 'no' regarding oxygen supply. There is no way that you will not supply 700 metric tonne oxygen immediately. We will not hear anything except compliance," the judges said. "Contempt proceedings can…