New Delhi, Oct 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of her personality and publicity rights against the alleged unauthorised use and misuse of her identity, including through pornographic and obscene content posted across digital platforms. A single-judge Bench of Justice Vikas Mahajan issued summons in the suit and also issued notice on the interim injunction application filed by the actress. During the proceedings, counsel appearing for Ranaut submitted that she was aggrieved by pornographic and obscene content posted against her on social media.

ഡെൽഹി ഹൈകോർട്ട് ജിഎസ്ടി പിരിവിൽ ആധാർ ബയോമെട്രിക് പരിശോധന ആവശ്യമാക്കിയതായി പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു. ഇത് സർക്കാർ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളിൽ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന പ്രതികളുടെ പരിശോധനയും ഉറപ്പാക്കലും സുഗമമാക്കുകയായിരുന്നു. ആധാർ കാർഡി… · Photo : johnjt44 · CC BY · Flickr

New Delhi, Oct 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday permitted a senior director of Vivo Mobile India to travel to Bangkok for four days for official meetings and directed suspension of the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against him during the period. A single-judge Bench of Justice Sachin Datta allowed Harinder Dahiya, the company's Senior Director of Finance and Accounts, to travel to Thailand, from October 12 to 15 for official meetings concerning statutory audit matters, audit and control transformation, litigation, and business and finance strategy at Vivo India.

New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has declared the Nehru Place District Centre, except for a designated portion, as a “No-hawking zone” and “No-vending zone”, while permitting 90 identified vendors to operate from an alternative site till the Town Vending Committee-II (TVC-II) takes a decision on their vending rights. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Dinesh Bhatt passed the direction while dealing with a batch of petitions and a contempt case concerning hawking and vending activities in the Nehru Place area. The High Court said that photographs taken as recently as September 26, placed on record by both the petitioners and respondents, left “no manner of doubt” that the declaration of Nehru Place District Centre as a no-hawking and no-vending zone deserved to be confirmed.

Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya sworn in as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, with Lt. Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena administering the oath.

Delhi HC on Tuesday rejected bail pleas of Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid, and seven others in conspiracy case linked to the Feb 2020 Delhi riots.

New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has appointed a wife as the legal guardian of her husband, who has been lying in a persistent vegetative state since February 2025 after suffering a massive intracranial haemorrhage. Invoking its parens patriae jurisdiction, a single-judge Bench of Justice Sachin Datta allowed a writ petition filed by Professor Alka Acharya, seeking guardianship of her husband Salam Khan, who underwent emergency brain surgery and has since remained unconscious, bed-bound and dependent on life-support measures.

New Delhi, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Observing that delays in registering FIRs can undermine investigations into the unnatural deaths of young married women, the Delhi High Court has urged courts to accord greater urgency to such matters, particularly where allegations of dowry-related harassment are raised and police fail to register a case. A single-judge Bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma made the observation while rejecting anticipatory bail pleas filed by a husband and his parents in a case relating to the death of a woman within seven months of her marriage, where an FIR was registered only after judicial intervention more than eight months after her death.

New Delhi, July 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that election-related duties assigned to schoolteachers do not impose an "unbearable" burden on them, observing that teachers engaged in poll work after spending 6-8 hours in classrooms may undergo considerable stress. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia passed the direction while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the deployment of government school teachers for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital.

New Delhi, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the bail pleas of jailed student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots "larger conspiracy" case, holding that in view of the Supreme Court's earlier order, they could not be granted bail at this stage. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Dinesh Bhatt rejected the pleas challenging the Karkardooma Court's orders refusing them regular bail in the case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and other penal provisions.

New Delhi, Nov 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday urged the Delhi High Court to hold in-camera proceedings in its plea seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the Kashmiri separatist leader and chief of the banned JKLF, who is currently serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case. Appearing via video conference from Tihar Jail, Malik submitted before a Bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain that he had been living under “mental agony for the last three years” over the possibility of being awarded capital punishment.

New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a counsel for appearing in a virtual hearing from a moving car, observing that the convenience of virtual proceedings cannot come at the cost of courtroom decorum or disrupt judicial proceedings. A single-judge Bench of Justice Om Prakash Shukla imposed the cost on the counsel appearing for the decree holder in two connected enforcement petitions filed by South Indian Bank Ltd and Union Bank of India Ltd against the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

New Delhi, Sep 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has cautioned a jail warden against resorting to unnecessary beating or violence against inmates, observing that such conduct is "absolutely impermissible" and warning that stern action would follow if such behaviour is repeated. A Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Dinesh Bhatt made the observations while viewing CCTV footage of an incident inside a jail complex, in which a warden was seen hitting inmates with a 'danda' (thick stick) after they had already dispersed following a quarrel and returned to their respective cells.

New Delhi, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea seeking immediate removal and blocking of an alleged AI-generated and morphed image of a woman shown alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the petitioner accusing Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh of circulating the image. The matter was mentioned before Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya by advocate Umesh Sharma, who submitted that an FIR had already been registered in connection with the incident. The High Court assured that the matter would be taken up for hearing on Friday.

New Delhi, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Meta Platforms to remove, within 24 hours, "objectionable content" concerning a woman, who alleged that an AI-generated and morphed image of her alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi was circulated online after being displayed during a CJP protest at Jantar Mantar. A single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia also directed the Delhi Police to provide complete protection to the petitioner and issued notice to CJP activists Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka, and Ratna Singh on her plea seeking urgent removal of the allegedly objectionable content.

New Delhi, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has held that Medical Assessment Boards assessing candidates for admission to the MBBS course cannot interfere with or reduce the percentage of disability recorded in a valid Unique Disability Identity (UDID) card, and must confine themselves to assessing the candidate’s functional competency. A single-judge Bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh made the observation while allowing two petitions filed by NEET-UG 2026 candidates, whose disability percentages were reduced by Medical Assessment Boards during the admission process, resulting in their removal from the Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) category.

New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Thursday denied anticipatory bail to YouTuber Ajeet Bharti in connection with an FIR over his alleged casteist and derogatory remarks against Nagina MP Chandra Shekhar Azad and members of the Scheduled Caste community, holding that an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was prima facie made out against him. A single-judge Bench of Justice Saurabh Banerjee dismissed Bharti's plea seeking protection from arrest in the case registered under provisions of the SC/ST Act, the Information Technology Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

New Delhi, Sep 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Friday barred candidates, students, supporters and others from taking out victory processions after the declaration of results in the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections, warning that any violation would invite criminal and administrative action and may also amount to contempt of court. A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia also issued notices to all 140 candidates contesting the DUSU elections and student organisations, asking them to explain why they should not be saddled with exemplary electoral damages for alleged violations of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations and judicial orders.

New Delhi, Sep 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned that it may stay the counting of votes and declaration of results in the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) elections if it is not satisfied with the action taken by authorities against candidates and persons allegedly involved in violence and violations of election guidelines. A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia made the observation while hearing an application filed by advocate Prashant Manchanda, seeking strict enforcement of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, anti-defacement guidelines and the DUSU election code of conduct during the 2026-27 elections.

New Delhi, Sep 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Delhi High Court has initiated contempt proceedings against the Superintendent of Tihar Jail for frustrating its order directing the release of an undertrial prisoner on parole, observing that the jail authority's actions had made a "mockery" of the legal system and violated the petitioner's fundamental rights. A single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav directed Dr Pawan Kumar, Jail Superintendent of Central Jail-02, Tihar, to file his response explaining why he should not be punished under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. He has also been directed to remain personally present on the next date of hearing, scheduled for September 22.