New Delhi [India], June 16 (ANI): The Delhi High Court, while disposing of a plea moved by a 90-year-old lady, has directed the Appellate Authority to decide the appeal related to a property on the next date of hearing.

New Delhi [India], June 13 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) to file an affidavit within seven days on the petitions challenging the selection process of players for the upcoming Common Wealth Games (CWG). The petitions have been listed for Monday for further hearing.

New Delhi [India], March 7 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking direction to take sufficient steps to adopt virtual court proceedings through video conferencing as a norm.

New Delhi Feb 24 PTI The Delhi Government Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the process of appointing a Lokayukta as promised by the Aam Aadmi Party AAP in its election manifesto of 2020 was going onThe submission was made in response to a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the AAP government here to appoint within one month a Lokayukta as promised by the party in its election manifestoNoting the submission of the counsel for Delhi government a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh listed the matter for further proceedings on April 29Petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay a lawyer has stated that the political party came into existence after the historic anti-corruption movement but the post of Lokayukta has been lying vacant since December 2020Delhi government standing counsel Santosh Kumar Tripathi submitted that a meeting was convened in this regard and a name has been recommended for the appointment and the process is going onThe petitioner has alleged that the Delhi government is not taking steps to weed out the menace of bribery black money benami property tax evasion profiteering and other economic as well as white-collar offences and therefore being the protector of fundamental rights the court has to intervene in the matter of the appointment of a LokayuktaWhen Justice Reva Khetrapal retired as Delhi Lokayukta the government did nothing to fill the post till date and hundreds of complaints relating to corruption are pending in the office the petition claimedThe AAP was formed after the historic anti-corruption movement but the same party is not appointing the Lokayukta which confirms States poor performance on many fronts the plea submittedThe AAP promised a stringent and effective Jan Lokpal Bill in 2015 and 2020 election manifesto but rather enacting the Law it is not even appointing the Lokayukta under outdated ineffective 1995 Act and hundreds of serious complaints relating to corruption against MLAs are pending in Lokayukta Office the petition has submittedThe petitioner sought to direct the Delhi Government to appoint the Lokayukta in the spirit of the promises made in 2020 Election Manifesto within one month PTI SKV SA

New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the Union of India, for the implementation of the Whistle-Blowers Protection Act, 2014. The Union of India has not brought any notification or formulated any Rule, Regulations under the provision of the Whistle-Blowers, stated the plea.

New Delhi Feb 22 PTI The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought the Centres reply on a plea challenging certain provisions of the Right to Education Act 2009 for allegedly being arbitrary and irrational and seeking introduction of a common syllabus and curriculum for children across the countryA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the Union ministries of Education Law and Justice and Home Affairs on the petition and listed the matter for further hearing on March 30The PIL said existence of Sections 1 4 and 1 5 of the RTE Act and the absence of a common curriculum in mother language leads to the fostering and perpetuation of ignorance and delays the attainment of fundamental dutiesPetitioner advocate Ashwini Upadhyay said it is the duty of the Union to effectuate a common education system but it has failed in the fulfilment of this necessary obligation as it has simply adopted the pre-existing National Curriculum Framework NCF of 2005 which is very oldThe plea challenged the provisions under the RTE Act which excludes madrasas vedic pathshalas and educational institutions imparting religious knowledge within its ambitThe injury caused to children is extremely large because rather than implementing a common education system for all the children up to 14 yearsthe Centre inserted sections 14 and 15 to deprive educational excellence to madrasas vedic pathshalas and educational institutions imparting religious instructionThe Petitioner submits that Sections 14 and 15 not only offend Articles 14 15 16 21 21A but are also contrary to Articles 38 39 and 46 and Preamble the plea saidSection 14 of the RTE Act states Subject to the provisions of articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution the provisions of this Act shall apply to conferment of rights on children to free and compulsory education Section 1 5 of the Act states Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to Madrasas Vedic Pathsalas and educational institutions primarily imparting religious instruction The plea said the prevailing system does not provide equal opportunity to all children as the syllabus and curriculum varies for each strata of the societyIt is necessary to state that the purposive and harmonious construction of Articles 14 15 16 21 21A with Articles 38 39 46 confirms that education is a basic right of every child and the State cannot discriminate against this most important rightRight of a child should not be restricted only to free education but must be extended to have equal quality education without discrimination on the ground of childs social economic and cultural background Therefore the court may declare Sections 14 and 15 arbitrary irrational and violative of Articles 14 15 16 and 21 and direct the Centre to implement common syllabus and common curriculum for the students of I-VIII standard throughout the country the plea saidThe petition said that a common minimum education programme for the children up to 14 years would achieve the code of common culture removal of disparity and depletion of discriminatory values in human relations PTI SKV SA

New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted more time to the Government of NCT Delhi to file its response in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to respondents to safeguard the interest of the children who have lost their parents to COVID-19 and who do not have anyone else to take care of them and face the risk of being trafficked.

New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Government of NCT Delhi and others on a plea moved by father and son (both domiciled in Delhi) challenging the provisions of "'The Delhi Diploma Level Technical Education Institutions (Prohibition of Capitation Fee, Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Non-exploitative Fee and Other Measures to ensure equity and excellence) Act, 2007'.

New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High Court stating Centre's structural guidelines of the requisite vehicles for carrying and moving of the camels and directions were laid but the same is not complied with and not adhered to by the concerned authorities.

New Delhi [India], January 29 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has directed concerned authorities to look into grievances raised by the petitioner, who has sought to issue directions to investigate corruption charges against an Indian Revenue Service of Chhattisgarh.