Court: Women can’t claim in-laws’ property
Observing that it is the only husband’s who are liable to provide the wife’s maintenance and not the in-laws, a Delhi court has ruled that women cannot claim a pie of their in-laws’ property.
No need to pay extra for urgent RTI plea
Now the Delhiites won’t have to pay extra money to get information from the Delhi high court on an urgent basis under the RTI Act throughout the working days.
Court seeks info on waste to energy plant
The Delhi high court has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Board (DPCB) to explain how the “waste to energy” project near Sukhdev Vihar will not be polluting the air.
The court sought a detailed report from the DPCB while hearing a PIL filed by Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association (RWA).
‘No child to be deprived of education’
An order which could justify and reinforce the faith of parents’ in the Right to Education (RTE), additional sessions judge Kamini Lau of the Rohini court in an order has said that no child should be deprived of right to education just because the father is in judicial custody.
HC breather for Stephen’s aspirant
As a clerical error threatened to ruin her dream of studying economics at St. Stephen’s College of Delhi University, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw has given a ray of hope to Jalnidh Kaur by directing the college not to fill up a seat in case it falls vacant till the next date of hearing. The court has also sought a response from the DU and St.
Notice to Iran mission for sacking worker
Tis Hazari court additional district judge (ADJ) A.K. Chawla has issued a notice to embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for allegedly not complying with the earlier court order in which the embassy was directed to pay Rs 7,89,600 to one of its illegally terminated employee S. Ashraf Rizvi.
OBC quota: Notices to Centre, Delhi, MCI
The Delhi high court has issued notices to the Union Government of India, the government of NCT, the health department, MCI, Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), Maulana Azad Medical College and two others after going through the petition of an aspiring MBBS student for not implementing 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in a section of medical colleges in Delhi.
‘Tihar officials not following orders’
The authorities of the high-security Tihar jail have allegedly flouted the order of the court on providing medical aid to an undertrial prisoner lodged in the jail in the TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan murder case.
Court asks govt to form taskforce
The Delhi high court has directed the Centre to constitute a taskforce to ensure compliance of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) norms for manufacturing and selling packed drinking water in the city.
English versus Hindi debate in high court
Even though Hindi is the official language of the Indian Union, the official language for the Supreme Court and high courts in the country as per the mandate under Article 348 of the Constitution of India continues to be English. Recently, while an advocate was granted permission by Justice Rekha Sharma of the Delhi high court to address