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Delhi HC asks Shehla Rashid to file response to affidavit filed by NBDSA

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New Delhi: The Delhi High court judge on Thursday asked former JNU student leader Shehla Rashid to file a response to the affidavit filed by the News Broadcaster and Digital Standard Authority (NBDSA). She has moved a plea against a news channel and its journalist.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav directed Shehla Rashid to file a rejoinder to the affidavit filed by the NBDSA. The matter has been listed on July 19, 2023, for further hearing.
During the hearing, the counsel appearing for the respondent journalist submitted that he will adopt the reply filed by the respondent news channel in the matter.
Rashid has alleged that one news channel aired a one-sided defamatory broadcast in which baseless allegations were levelled against her by estranged father. She had sought an apology from News Channel to mitigate the damage caused to her reputation and dignity.
On September 16, 2022, the bench of justice Yashwant Varma had issued a notice on the plea of Rashid to the broadcaster regulatory authority, a news channel and a journalist. She moved a plea against a program that was telecast by a news channel in 2020.
Rashid has sought a modification in an order passed by NBDSA on March 31, 2022, on her complaint.
The News Broadcaster and Digital Standard Authority (NBDSA) had directed the news channel to take down links to the show about Rashid.
The grievance of the petitioner was that the NBDSA refused to direct the channel to air an apology. She contended that NBDSA had given relief in other similar cases.

Such unreasoned refusal is wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law and this writ ought to issue to remedy the violation of public duty by the respondents, the plea said.
Advocate S Prasanna, the counsel for Rashid, had submitted that it is important that there is a sense of responsibility of the media and people who make these allegations.
The counsel for NBDSA had submitted that the broadcaster has removed all the links from all platforms of the programme.
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March 2, 2023
Delhi HC issues notice on plea seeking cow protection cell

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice on a plea seeking a separate cell for cow protection in every district and to put a stop to its slaughtering.
Filed in a form of Public Interest Litigation (PIL), a division bench Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad while hearing it, sought response of the Centre, Arvind Kekriwal-led Government and Police.
The bench has listed the matter for the next hearing on May 17.
Ajay Gautam’s PIL alleges that there have been rampant incidents of cow slaughtering in Delhi despite a large number of policemen here.
Appearing for Centre, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Chetan Sharma said that it is a “genuine case.”
It is the petitioner’s case that people from Mewat or Nuhu district in Haryana, kidnap cows from the roads, farms or dairies in the capital and take them for slaugtering.
“These places are infamous for cow slaughters,” it says.
The petitioner has shown displeasure stating that witnessing incidents of ill-treatment and torture to cows becomes intolerable for people who reveres cow as “his mother”.

“Sometimes situation goes out of control,” the plea adds.
“In many cases, Gau Saveks raided the crime site before the police and resulted in conflict/clash reported between cow smugglers and cow saveks.. That Impounding of vehicles transporting cow meat is a very common occurrence. It is submitted that due to above reasons/incidents communal tension also increase and resulted in communal harmony disturb,” the plea states.
According to the Delhi police Act, 1978, the Police is empowered to make special cell or unit for the protection of cows to avoid conflict between cow smugglers and cow sewaka, the petition reads.
“Cows are the goddesses of the gods and the refuge of all auspiciousness. Cows bestow every kind of happiness and for this reason they always are worshipable. Cows are the support of all the worlds for by their milk they nourish terrestrial beings and by their ghee offered in the sacrifice they nourish the denizens of the celestial realms. Nothing superior to cows,” the plea states.
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March 2, 2023
Delhi court discharges AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in rioting case

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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday discharged AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a case of alleged rioting and stone pelting on police personnel in May 2022 while opposing a demolition drive being carried out by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
Special Judge Vikas Dhull passed the directions on an appeal filed by Khan against a magisterial court’s order.
The metropolitan magisterial court had directed framing of charges against Khan and others under sections 147 (rioting), 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of his public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant).
The sessions court on Wednesday said the magisterial court’s order suffered from “grave illegality” and was not sustainable in the eyes of law.
The judge said that the magisterial court had placed heavy reliance upon the statement of witnesses, even though video recording was not supporting the allegations made by the witnesses, to come to a prima facie view that charge is required to be framed against the revisionist and other accused persons.
The judge said there were two views possible, one of which, based upon the statement of witnesses, raises a suspicion only that revisionist and other accused persons had committed the offence alleged by the witnesses.
However, the other view, which was made out from the video recording did not raise a grave suspicion that revisionist and other accused persons had committed the offence alleged by the witnesses in their respective statements, the judge noted.
“It is a settled principle of law that if two views are possible and one view raises a suspicion only, then accused needs to be discharged. In the light of above discussion, the impugned order suffers from grave illegality and is not sustainable in the eyes of law,” the judge said while discharging Khan.

The metropolitan magistrate had on January 20 ordered framing of charges against Khan and others.
According to police, Khan, who was the area MLA, along with his supporters, had formed unlawful assembly and pelted stones on Delhi police personnel, besides damaging public property while opposing a demolition drive being carried out by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation in Kalindi Kunj area on May 12, 2022.
Reasonable force had to be used at the spot to curtail the crowd, police said, adding that several police officials got injured in the stone pelting.
The unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had formally come into existence on May 22 last year. It was reunified by merging three civic bodies – North, South and East municipal corporations or NDMC, SDMC and EDMC.
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March 1, 2023
Building in north Delhi collapses in seconds after massive fire

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New Delhi: A warehouse in north Delhi’s Roshanara Road collapsed like a house of cards after a massive fire broke out in it on Monday, officials said. However, no one was injured in the incident.
The video of the incident was also doing rounds on social media. In the video, firemen can be seen standing near the three-storey structure before it suddenly collapses.
It took just five seconds for the three-storeyed building to completely come down, releasing a thick plume of black smoke.
According to Delhi Fire Service (DFS) Director Atul Garg, a call regarding the blaze in a factory at the premises of logistics firm Jaipur Golden Transport on Roshanara Road near Pul Bangash metro station was received around 11.50 a.m. and 18 fire tenders have been rushed to the site.
The firefighters are still trying to douse the flames.
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March 1, 2023
Excise policy case: Delhi court defers passing order on Hyderabad-based auditor’s bail plea

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Delhi: A Delhi court has deferred passing of order on Thursday on the bail plea filed by Hyderabad-based CA Butchi Babu Gorantla, recently arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the liquor policy case.
The Special Judge M. K. Nagpal of the Rouse Avenue Courts, on February 24, had reserved his order after hearing arguments in Gorantla’s bail plea from both sides and had listed it for hearing on Wednesday.
Gorantla, who is the former auditor of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter MLC K. Kavitha whose name has already been dragged into the case, was arrested by the CBI in the excise policy case on February 8.
According to the CBI, he was arrested for his alleged role in formulating and implementing the Delhi Excise Policy and causing wrongful gain to Hyderabad-based wholesale and retail licensees and their beneficial owners.
Recently, the court had also given permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to question Gorantla in judicial custody after the agency moved an application seeking permission to quiz him and to record his statement in the money laundering case pertaining to the Excise Policy.
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March 1, 2023
Delhi liquor scam: Watch Kejriwal, Sisodia in ‘BJP’s Baahubali’

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New Delhi: The Delhi BJP has used a small clip from the blockbuster ‘Baahubali’ movie to mock Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his former deputy Manish Sisodia.
The party unit shared the clip on Twitter on Wednesday and captioned it: “Must watch this film of liquor scam mastermind Kejriwal.”
In the clip which runs over a minute, Sisodia’s face has been superimposed on a man serving liquor at a tavern.
Kejriwal then walks into the tavern and asks for alcohol. When served, he keeps asking for a bigger peg.
As Sisodia asks for money, Kejriwal is seen throwing a heap of gold coins, saying he has enough money to buy drinks for the whole tavern.
This comes days after Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Delhi excise police case.
He resigned as a Minister on Tuesday.

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March 1, 2023
Mehrauli demolition drive: Delhi HC seeks identity documents of residents

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked counsel for Goshiya Colony Sewa Samiti and others residing in Mehrauli area of south Delhi to submit a list of identity documents of 467 residents in a plea challenging the colony’s demolition by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).
A bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora asked advocate Anupradha Singh, counsel for petitioner, to provide a list of the identity documents to counsel of the DDA and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB).
The judge also asked her to file a rejoinder to the affidavits filed by the DDA and DUSIB, for which the court granted her one week’s time.
The court then listed the matter for the next hearing on March 14.
On February 17, the High Court had directed the DDA and DUSIB to file affidavits in the plea.
The plea challenges the December 12, 2022 demolition notice, wherein the DDA planned to carry out a demolition drive in the entire Goshiya Colony, which is in existence for more than five decades and consists of over 600 houses, with approximately 4,000 population.
The plea stated, citing the ‘Ajay Maken and others vs Union of India’ case that a demolition drive cannot be carried out without following the protocol for removal of jhuggis as per the order of High Court.
The petition claimed that the land-owning agency cannot begin the demolition process until the DUSIB determines that the jhuggis are not eligible for rehabilitation.

However, the DDA in its affidavit has stated that the land falls in Mehrauli Archaeological Park which forms part of the Southern Central Ridge where a large number of historical world-famous monuments exist which are protected/unprotected and maintained by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI).
It is stated in the affidavit that according to DDA’s land record, the land subject matter of the present petition false in khasra number 216 and 217 villages Ladha Sarai Mehrauli New Delhi and that Khasra Number 217 is acquired land.
The land has been set apart as green in the master plan of Delhi since the beginning and is to be developed and maintained as green and to be conserved under the Mehrauli Heritage Zone, the DDA’s affidavit stated.
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February 28, 2023
Arrested AAP ministers Sisodia, Satyendar Jain quit Delhi cabinet

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Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain on Tuesday resigned from their posts in the state cabinet.
According to a report by ANI, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal accepted their resignation.
Manish Sisodia has been in control of 18 ministries, including Satyendar Jain’s health portfolio, who has been in jail for 10 months.
The resignations followed as the BJP questioned why arrested leaders remained in the Delhi administration.
The Delhi cabinet currently has five ministers, including Kejriwal.
This comes very soon after the Supreme Court’s decision to decline a plea by arrested Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia challenging his arrest by the CBI in an alleged case of corruption in the now-withdrawn Delhi liquor policy.
(This is a breaking story. Keep refreshing the page for newer updates).

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February 28, 2023
Delhi HC adjourns hearing on Asiya Andrabi’s plea against property seizure

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing on the pleas by two Kashmiri separatists Sofi Fehmeeda and Asiya Andrabi against National Investigation Agency (NIA) for seizure of their car and house in Jammu and Srinagar cities, respectively.
On the request of the counsel for appellants, the court adjourned the matter for April 26.
Last year, the agency had opposed the appeal moved by Andrabi and others, saying it was established that premises have been used by the Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM)for holding meetings to commit unlawful activities and terrorist activities.
Andrabi is the chief of banned terrorist outfit DeM, which advocates violent secession of Jammu and Kashmir from India.
In 2019, the NIA issued attachments orders for the seizure of Andrabi’s house and her associate Fehmeeda’s car, alleging that these properties were proceeds of terrorism and were used to further terrorist activities.
Andrabi has been charged with violating the provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
On directions of the Union Home Ministry, the NIA registered a case against them and the organisation.

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February 28, 2023
Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply on journalist Angad Singh’s plea

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Central government to file a proper counter affidavit to a Vice News journalist Angad Singh’s plea challenging his deportation from Delhi to New York in August last year and being “blacklisted” despite being an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holder.
Appearing for the Centre, advocate Anurag Ahluwalia had last month told the court that as the US-based journalist has violated Section 11A of the Foreigners Order, 1948, which prohibits a foreigner from producing any picture, film or documentary without permission in writing from the Centre, he is a blacklisted subject.
During the hearing on Tuesday, appearing for Singh, Advocate Swathi Sukumar said that she had moved an amendment application against the blacklisting which was mentioned in the counter affidavit of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The FRRO, in an affidavit, told the court that Singh was blacklisted at the instance of the Consulate General of India in New York.
According to the affidavit, Singh had allegedly depicted India in a negative manner in the “India Burning” documentary.
Ahluwalia had earlier submitted that Singh was entering India on his journalist visa for a personal visit but he wasn’t issued a visa for that.
On Tuesday, Sukumar further said that she did not have a copy of the blacklisting order.
Ahluwalia said that he would file a “detailed response”. He added that the primary condition was that Singh comes to the place, makes a video, gives it to the consulate general for approval, once approved, then the video could have been made public.

Sukumar argued that the Centre had to seek instructions on whether any proceedings were initiated for cancellation of Singh’s OCI card.
To this, Ahluwalia said that they have not initiated any proceedings as of now and added that filing the blacklisting order may not be necessary.
While allowing the amendment to the writ petition and directing the Centre to file a proper counter affidavit to the amended petition, the court noted: “It is submitted by the Centre that their stand would be stated in the counter affidavit which is now to be filed in the amended writ.”
The court listed the matter for the next hearing in May.
Singh has covered important issues in his documentaries, including the Shaheen Bagh protests, the farmers’ protests and the Covid-19 pandemic in India, among others.
In his plea, Singh has mentioned that his fundamental right under the Citizenship Act, 1955, is being violated by not letting him into India.
Earlier, Singh’s counsel had sought a declaration that his deportation from the government was illegal and disclosure of all the materials and data available with the government related to him.
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February 28, 2023