Delhi High Court Arbitration Rules 2023
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Delhi High Court has unveiled the Draft Arbitration Rules, 2023, inviting public feedback until 05-07-2025. The draft aims at streamlining arbitration procedures and enhancing institutional efficiency, laying down comprehensive filing norms, encouraging institutional arbitration, and more.

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Sharmistha Panoli, a law student, was booked for allegedly making blasphemous remarks against Prophet Mohammad on social media.

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Delhi High Court
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The inability to engage in full-time or gainful employment by wife cannot be viewed as a voluntary choice but must be seen considering the practical limitations imposed by her dual responsibilities.

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The central dispute involved RBI’s cancellation of Shabros Finvest Pvt. Ltd.’s NBFC registration for allegedly failing to meet the prescribed Net Owned Fund (NOF) requirement.

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Tribunal and Commission Roundup May 2025
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From a ₹20.24 Cr Google settlement in an Android TV antitrust case to NCLT’s rejection of Vedanta’s demerger, the May 2025 roundup covers key regulatory and tribunal decisions. Highlights include NCLAT’s take on electricity dues during CIRP, SEBI’s 5-year ban on actor Arshad Warsi, environmental rulings by NGT, and Amazon penalized for a ₹100 Rakhi delivery failure.

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This case serves as an important reminder that a victim of sexual assault carrying the burden of an unwanted pregnancy may need more sensitivity to deal with as in many cases, such victims are under deep distress unable to process their situation and life. Further, each day’s delay in such cases in conducting MTP puts the victim under enhanced potential danger to her life

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The present FIR was lodged in the year 2022, almost after a delay of 14 years, whereas CBI has already conducted the investigation from 2009 to 2014 for the same offences by registering PE & RC during this period.

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Securities and Exchange Board of India
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SEBI observed that the trades were not routine or incidental but strategically timed to avoid substantial losses which would have occurred had the information been public at the time of trading.

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SEBI emphasized that the integrity of the securities market is sacrosanct and any attempt to mislead investors, however novel or tech-enabled, would be dealt with strictly under the law.

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Delhi High Court
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PIL raised concerns about regular uploading, updating of the proceedings, information relating to video conferencing links, uploading of daily orders, cause lists, and information relating to the Presiding Officers of various forums under various labour laws who are on leave, on their respective official website or on the website of the government.

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Andhra Pradesh High Court
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“In the present day, vulgar, hate filled and abusive posts in social media have become the new age norm. The “trolls” as they are called, attract lightning responses all over and this is all the when the point of reference is a celebrity or a political leader of stature and the following.”

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Calcutta High Court
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Some of the words used by the Trial Judge are entirely ‘de hors’ the pleadings of both the parties and creates a ‘Deja vu’ in the mind of the court, since the Court have come across the same phrases in other matrimonial judgments as well, authored by the same Judge.

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Delhi High Court
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In the deep fakes, Ankur Warikoo has been falsely shown to recommend his audience to join WhatsApp groups for stock tips.

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Central Administrative Tribunal
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The Railway Board’s 2015 policy required five years of service for inter-railway transfers but applied only to fresh cases of post-issuance. Despite meeting this condition, the applicant was not relieved. Later, a 2022 policy raised the service requirement to ten years, leading SECR to cancel all pending transfers below that threshold, including the applicant’s.

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Delhi High Court
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The petitioner, though possessing an OBC certificate dated 23-02-2024 and earlier years’ certificates, was unable to obtain a fresh certificate between 1 April and 14-05-2024 due to the prevailing insurgency and unrest in Manipur during that period.

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The interaction of patent laws and ethics is an uncomfortable relationship and has always produced difficulties. In such circumstances, section 3(b) ought not to be interpreted to deal with all subjective concerns of morality, public order or health regardless of any scientific or technical evidence or any cogent reasoning.

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“Burden of proof, in any enquiry or trial, keeps on shifting and the moment the averments made in the claim petition were deposed on oath by the respondent in her evidence, it was for the Management to have rebutted and disproved the same.”

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The victim was about 16 years old at the time of the incident; and today she is about 27 years old and is making a living as a lab technician in a hospital. Her left eye is evidently fully damaged.

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The dispute arose from a ₹3 lakh loan allegedly given by the complainant to the accused. The cheque issued for repayment bounced due to insufficient funds.

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Delhi High Court
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The core dispute between OYO and Zostel arose from a Term Sheet dated 26-11-2015, which proposed OYO’s acquisition of Zostel’s business. While Zostel claimed to have fulfilled its obligations and sought specific performance, OYO argued the Term Sheet was non-binding and lacked enforceable terms.

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