After relying on the dying declaration of the victim, the Delhi high court has upheld the conviction of a former employee of a call centre here who had murdered his girlfriend when he came to know that she was in love with her boss.

Widening the ambit of domestic violence, which was essentially meant to protect the women, a Delhi court in a significant ruling has said that a woman having no source of earning is entitled to seek maintenance even from her adopted son(s) and married daughter(s) under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence (DV) Act. After hearing the plea of a 70-year-old widow, Krishna, who moved the sessions court against the order of a metropolitan magistrate (MM) court, additional sessions judge

The Delhi high court has rapped the MCD for “exploiting” nursing personnel by appointing them to a lower grade post and making them carry out the duties of higher grade staff, saying that it amounted to “ad-hocism”.

A woman research officer with the department of ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (Ayush), under the health ministry, got relief from the Delhi high court which has directed the government to constitute a “proper” committee to inquire into her allegation of sexual harassment by a senior colleague.

A father of three, earning less than Rs 2,500 a month, has moved the Delhi high court to get fees exemption under the BPL category for his three children studying in the Kendriya Vidyalaya School here. Vinay Kumar, 45, a roadside vendor, who underwent a heart surgery in May last year, has filed a writ petition in the high court urging it to restrain the KVS from striking off the names of his three children studying in KVS in Naraina area because he is unable to pay their fees.

A DTC bus depot being constructed at Yamuna flood plain, near Akshardham temple, to ferry athletes and officials to and from the Games Village to sports venues has come under the scanner of the Delhi high court.

Coming to the rescue of 50 architecture students, the Delhi high court has stayed the ban by the School of Planning and Architecture on them and allowed them to appear in the examination.

Relying on dying declaration as sacrosanct, the Delhi high court refused to grant respite to a man who set his wife on fire in a fit of rage when she refused to have intercourse with him. While upholding the judgement of a trial court, a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, “A dying declaration is sacrosanct as it is the

The high court has said that the reputation of the accused before committing crime should not be considered while adjudicating criminal cases when evidence is against them.

The Delhi high court on Friday set aside the Union government’s decision to de-recognise the Indian Hockey Federation and fined the ministry of sports and youth affairs and the Indian Olympic Association Rs 10,000 each over the issue.