NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ordered unblocking of the Cockroach Janta Party’s X handle, which was withheld in May. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma passed the judgement on a petition filed by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke against the Centre’s blocking order. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that the CJP’s […]
NEW DELHI — A New Delhi court on Friday rejected Telegram’s appeal against a temporary ban in India, a setback for the messaging app which had challenged the prohibition imposed to curb alleged exam-related fraud. India will conduct its national undergraduate medical entrance exam on Sunday, a month after it cancelled the results of the […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Kashmiri human rights activist Khuram Parvez in a case under the anti-terror law. A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja took note of Parvez’s over-four-year incarceration in the case and the unlikelihood of the trial concluding soon to hold that his […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi riots conspiracy case accused Umar Khalid for three days to visit his mother in hospital during her medical surgery A Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Madhu Jain passed the order. “Taking an empathetic view of the matter […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday permitted jailed Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid to meet his ailing father in AIIMS Delhi for 12 hours a day till May 10. Modifying its earlier order granting interim bail to Rashid in a terror funding case to enable him to see his […]
SRINAGAR — Jailed Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Thursday arrived here to meet his ailing father after the Delhi High Court granted him a week’s interim bail, officials said. Rashid, alias Engineer Rashid, the Lok Sabha MP from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, arrived at the Srinagar airport here on Thursday afternoon and drove […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted one-week interim bail to jailed Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid, to enable him to visit his ailing father. A bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Madhu Jain, however, clarified that during this period, Rashid, who is […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Tuesday listed a plea filed by jailed Jammu and Kashmir MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid seeking permission to attend the ongoing Parliament session for hearing on March 25. A bench of justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Anup J Bhambhani deferred the hearing after the counsel […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court allowed two-day custody parole to jailed MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid to attend the ongoing Parliament session. Justice Vikas Mahajan said Rashid could attend the Parliament session on February 11 and 13. Custody parole entails a prisoner being escorted by armed police personnel to the place […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the stand of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a plea filed by Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid seeking interim bail to attend the ongoing Parliament session. Engineer Rashid, who won the Lok Sabha election from J&K’s Baramulla constituency by defeating National Conference (NC) Vice […]