The Delhi High Court has held that a husband cannot justify violence against his wife on the ground of anger or refusal to live with him, stressing that such a claim reflects "patriarchal entitlement" which the law cannot support.
Justice Sachin Datta observed that even seemingly innocuous disclosures could open the "floodgates of indiscriminate demands, motivated by idle curiosity or sensationalism, rather than any objective public interest consideration."
The Delhi High Court ruled on Monday that educational qualifications, including degrees and marks, fall within the ambit of "personal information" under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act (RTI) and cannot be disclosed merely to satisfy public curiosity.
The Delhi High Court on Monday set aside a 2016 directive of the Central Information Commission (CIC), thereby allowing Delhi University's plea against the disclosure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's undergraduate degree details.
Delhi's legal community strongly opposes a Lieutenant Governor notification permitting video recording of police officers' depositions at police stations. The SCBA, DHCBA, and district bar associations protested with a two-day court shutdown, demanding immediate withdrawal of the directive.
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Ministry of Law and Justice, the Delhi government, and others on a petition filed by Vikas Yadav, convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, seeking statutory remission of his 25-year sentence.
The Delhi High Court has granted protection from coercive action to Vicky Ramancha, accused of supplying spurious drugs worth USD 18 million to a company. The Economic Offence Wing of Delhi Police is investigating the case following the registration of an FIR.
The petition claims that the notification permits appointment of non-medical (M.Sc./Ph.D.) faculty up to 30% in the core MBBS subjects of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Pharmacology.