Delhi High Court

Personal Appearance of Government Officials Rules 2025
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The Delhi High Court has introduced the Personal Appearance of Government Officials in Court Proceedings Rules, 2025, applicable to all cases involving the government before the High Court, District Courts, and Tribunals under its supervision. The rules outline when officials must appear in person or via video conferencing, classify proceedings into evidence-based, summary, and non-adversarial categories, and emphasize respect and professionalism during hearings.

Father has Duty to provide Maintenance
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Maintenance of children is not confined to bare subsistence; it encompasses their overall upbringing, education, health, and standard of living, consistent with the means and status of the parents.”

Yamuna flood plains encroachment
Case BriefsHigh Courts

In the flood plains, people cannot be allowed to make their houses, tenements, sheds, etc., under the pretext of graveyard or for any other purpose.

Junior NTR's Personality Rights
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The grievance of the plaintiff arose from the manufacture, sale, promotion, and distribution of merchandise such as T-shirts, posters, mugs, keychains, and other products bearing his name, photographs, likeness, and persona, without authorisation.

ICC Sponsorship Payments
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that the revisional authority was justified in concluding that the payment had two distinct elements, i.e., advertisement and trademark usage.

appointment of SEBI adjudicating office
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Formation of opinion under Rule 3 of Securities and Exchange Board of India Adjudication Rules need not be expressly recorded at pre-notice stage.”

refund of Court fees
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Order XLI Rule 23 of the CPC envisages remand in a situation in which the suit was decreed by the Court of first instance on a preliminary point and the decree is reversed in appeal by the appellate court.”

civil suit cannot nullify arbitral award
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Once arbitral award attains finality up to the Supreme Court, separate civil suit challenging underlying transaction on grounds of fraud is barred by Section 5 of the Arbitration Act and principles of finality.

misuse of victim compensation scheme in sexual offences
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Where prosecutrix unequivocally resiles from allegations in a voluntary statement under Section 164 CrPC, no grave suspicion survives to warrant framing of charges under Sections 328 and 376 of the IPC.

HIV positive person a person of disability
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“An HIV positive employee would unquestionably be suffering long term physical impairment, which would hinder his full and effective participation in society.”

Right to Dignity
Case BriefsHigh Courts

While the media enjoys freedom of speech and expression, but such right is not absolute and stands correspondingly delimited by the right of an individual to dignity and reputation.

territorial jurisdiction in trademark cases
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that “the conclusion arrived at by the learned Single Judge that this Court did not have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain the suit cannot be faulted.”

Gifts received from parental home not source of income
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The claim for maintenance must be assessed with reference to her present earning capacity and ability to sustain herself in the standard of living she was accustomed to during her marriage, and not on the financial status of her natal family.”

Justice Manmohan
Know thy Judge

Justice Manmohan, formerly serving Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 3-12-2024.

OBC-NCL certificate
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“To cancel the candidature of otherwise eligible candidates, on sole grounds of issuance date, deprives the petitioners of their fundamental rights under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and actually runs contrary to the object sought to be achieved by providing reservations in public employment”

Disputes after settlement agreement arbitrable
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Execution of a full and final settlement may not preclude a party from taking recourse to arbitration if a dispute arises from the settlement itself”

execution of foreign decree
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Dubai Court had directed Simplex Infrastructure to pay AED 9.59 millions to a prominent Dubai based MEP contractor in unpaid dues for MEP work executed nearly a decade ago.

bail to husband in dowry death case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Dowry deaths corode societal values, and perpetuate systemic oppression of women, cruelty culminating in the death of a young bride strikes at the collective conscience of society.

Delhi HC upholds constitutional validity of 2013 guidelines disqualifying colour-blind personnel in Central Armed Forces
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If any of the personnel not fully fit, he will either not be able to protect himself or his colleagues in a battle or he will run the risk of killing innocent people especially if his eyesight is weak and he cannot distinguish between uniforms, etc.”

Himalaya trade mark
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The plaintiffs are the prior adopters and long-standing users of the subject mark ‘HIMALAYA’ since 1930 in connection with ayurvedic, wellness, pharmaceutical and personal care products.”