The post Delhi High Court Refuses to Suspend Sentence of Kuldeep Sengar in Unnao Custodial Death Case appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>Justice Ravinder Dudeja said no grounds were made out for granting relief and dismissed the application seeking suspension of the sentence. The court observed that although Sengar has undergone a long period of incarceration, relief could not be granted solely on the basis of delay, noting that part of the delay was due to multiple applications filed by him during the pendency of his appeal.
The judge said the ends of justice would be better served by hearing the appeal at the earliest and listed the matter for further hearing on February 3.
On March 13, 2020, a trial court sentenced Sengar to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 10 lakh in the case related to the death of the survivor’s father while in custody. The court had said that no leniency could be shown in the killing of a family’s sole breadwinner.
The trial court had also handed down 10-year jail terms to Sengar’s brother Atul Singh Sengar and five other accused for their role in the custodial death. The survivor’s father was arrested under the Arms Act at Sengar’s instance and died in custody on April 9, 2018, due to alleged police brutality.
Sengar was convicted of kidnapping and raping the minor survivor in 2017. In the custodial death case, the trial court did not convict the accused for murder under the Indian Penal Code but imposed the maximum punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304, after holding that there was no intention to kill.
Sengar’s appeals against his conviction in the rape case, in which he was sentenced in December 2019 to imprisonment for the remainder of his life, as well as in the custodial death case, are pending before the High Court. His sentence in the rape case was suspended by the High Court on December 23, 2025, but the Supreme Court stayed that suspension on December 29, 2025.
The post Delhi High Court Refuses to Suspend Sentence of Kuldeep Sengar in Unnao Custodial Death Case appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Delhi High Court Safeguards Sunil Gavaskar Personality Rights Against Digital Misuse appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora directed that obscene and infringing content related to Gavaskar be taken down from the internet.
The court ordered that the identified URLs hosting offensive material, videos and posts must be removed within seventy two hours. It further clarified that if websites fail to comply within the stipulated timeframe, the concerned social media intermediaries would be required to take down the content. The matter has been scheduled for further hearing on May twenty two.
Reacting to the order, Sunil Gavaskar said the ruling represents an important judicial acknowledgment of a sportsperson’s personality and publicity rights in India. He noted that the decision assumes greater significance in cases involving unauthorised attribution, digital circulation and commercial exploitation across social media and e commerce platforms.
Earlier, on December twelve, the high court had directed social media intermediaries to act within seven days on Gavaskar’s plea seeking protection of his personality rights.
The court had asked his legal team to first approach the platforms with specific grievances and instructed intermediaries to treat the plea as a formal complaint under the Information Technology Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules twenty twenty one.
During the latest hearing, the court was informed that although some infringing content had been removed, several links and materials were still accessible online. Gavaskar had approached the court to prevent the unauthorised use of his name persona images and likeness by social media platforms and e commerce websites, asserting his right to control and monetise his public identity.
Personality rights, also known as publicity rights, allow individuals to protect and regulate the commercial use of their image name and likeness. In recent months, several prominent public figures including actors filmmakers spiritual leaders journalists and digital creators have approached the Delhi High Court seeking similar protection. The court has granted interim relief in many of these cases, reflecting a growing judicial focus on safeguarding individual identity in the digital age.
The post Delhi High Court Safeguards Sunil Gavaskar Personality Rights Against Digital Misuse appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Salman Khan Moves Delhi High Court to Safeguard Personality and Publicity Rights appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>
In his plea, Khan has asked the court to restrain various social media networks and e-commerce platforms from using his name, photographs, likeness or any aspect of his persona without authorisation. He argues that such misuse violates his publicity and personality rights.
Personality rights, also known as publicity rights, allow individuals—particularly public figures—to control, safeguard and commercially benefit from the use of their name, image or likeness.
Khan is the latest in a growing list of celebrities who have sought similar protections. Recently, the Delhi High Court granted interim relief to several well-known figures, including Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Ajay Devgn, filmmaker Karan Johar, singer Kumar Sanu, actor Akkineni Nagarjuna, ‘Art of Living’ founder Ravi Shankar, journalist Sudhir Chaudhary and podcaster Raj Shamani.
Telugu actor NTR Junior has also filed a petition before the court seeking protection of his personality rights, and an order on his plea is still pending.
The post Salman Khan Moves Delhi High Court to Safeguard Personality and Publicity Rights appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Delhi High Court Declines to Issue Order on Plea for Lawyer Meeting appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>
Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that Wani was unable to present any official decision from the trial court showing that his request for a meeting had been denied.
The court stated that the accused is not an exceptional case and that all applicants are required to follow the established legal process.
This observation came after Wani’s lawyer argued that the trial court had turned down the request verbally.
Wani was arrested by the NIA on November 17 as an alleged active collaborator of suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi in the November 10 Red Fort car explosion which resulted in the loss of fifteen lives.
He was placed in NIA custody for ten days following an order by the trial court on November 18.
The post Delhi High Court Declines to Issue Order on Plea for Lawyer Meeting appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Delhi HC Seeks Reponses from KVS and Union of India Regarding Age of Class 1 Admissions appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>As per PTI, Justice Rajiv Shakdher has posted a notice to the Delhi government and its department of education, requesting their response to the petition, which claims that the December 18, 2015 order tried to seek to “disservice to children and society by taking away their Right to Education by imposing an age limit for admission to a school.”
The post Delhi HC Seeks Reponses from KVS and Union of India Regarding Age of Class 1 Admissions appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post The Delhi High Court was ‘Amazed’ that Two Female ITBP Constables Requested to be Posted in Afghanistan appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Justice Amit Bansal dismissed the petition since the problem is simply administrative. They also expressed surprise at such a petition given the perilous situation in Afghanistan. Before the fall of Kabul in August, the petition was filed and a decision was reached.
The ITBP constables said they were assigned to the Indian Embassy in Kabul as security aides in August 2020 for a two-year assignment. They were re-deployed to India in June of this year. They claimed they were entitled to a two-year stay in Afghanistan.
The post The Delhi High Court was ‘Amazed’ that Two Female ITBP Constables Requested to be Posted in Afghanistan appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Delhi High Court grants a week to Juhi Chawla to deposit Rs 20 lakh appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>“The court is shocked at the conduct of the plaintiffs,” Justice J R Midha said as he observed that Chawla and others were “not even willing to gracefully deposit the costs”.
The judge was hearing three applications moved by the actor for refund of court fees, waiver of costs and replacing the word “dismissed” in the judgement with “rejected”.
The court’s reaction came after Chawla’s counsel, Senior Advocate Meet Malhotra’s, after withdrawing the application for waiver of costs, said that costs would either be deposited in a week or ten days, or legal remedies against the same would be taken.
“On one hand you move frivolous application and on the other hand, you withdraw the application and plaintiffs are not even willing to gracefully deposit the costs,” the court said.
The court stated that it, in fact, took a lenient view when it imposed costs of Rs 20 lakh on Chawla and others and did not initiate contempt proceedings.
The post Delhi High Court grants a week to Juhi Chawla to deposit Rs 20 lakh appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post “India’s New IT Rules are Not Applicable to Search Engine”, says Google appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>Notices have been sent to the Center, Delhi Government, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, and the pornographic site by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh. They were asked to submit the responses to the plea by Google.
No interim order would be sought now since Google informed that it was an intermediary, but not a social media intermediary.
The post “India’s New IT Rules are Not Applicable to Search Engine”, says Google appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post “We will hang that person”: High Court response to disrupting oxygen supply appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>This has been said during the hearing of a petition of Maharaja Agrasen Hospital on behalf of the bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli. The hospital has moved the High Court regarding the lack of oxygen for critically ill covid patients.
The court asked the Delhi government to tell who was obstructing the supply of oxygen, the bench said, “We will hang that person.” We will not spare anyone. ”
The court asked the Delhi government to inform the Center about such officials of the local administration so that they can take action against them. The High Court also questioned the Center as to when it would get 480 metric tonnes of oxygen per day allotted to Delhi.
The court said, “You assured us (on 21 April) that 480 metric tons of oxygen will be delivered to Delhi every day.” Tell us when it will come? ” The Delhi government informed the court that it has been getting only 380 metric tons of oxygen daily for the last few days and on Friday it had received about 300 metric tons of oxygen. After this, the court questioned the Center.
The post “We will hang that person”: High Court response to disrupting oxygen supply appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>The post Wife of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tested corona positive appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>He has isolated himself from Sunita Kejriwal. Right now Sunita Kejriwal’s health is fine. Chief Minister has also isolated himself. The people of Delhi need not be worried because the Chief Minister is still keeping an eye on everything.
He has isolated himself, but he is looking at every thing personally. Apart from this, the whole team is engaged under the leadership of Deputy Chief Ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain.
Significantly, the number of corona cases has increased rapidly in the country as well as in Delhi in recent times. More than 25 thousand corona cases were filed in Delhi on Sunday.
Talking about the country, according to the data released by the Union Health Ministry, on Tuesday, more than two and a half lakh new cases have been reported in India.
This is the fourth consecutive day when more than 2.5 lakh new cases have been registered in the country, according to the Ministry, the number of total infected has increased to 1,53,21,089 after 2,59,170 new cases have come in the country in the last 24 hours.
At the same time, the maximum number of deaths in this period has been 1761, after which the total number of dead has increased to 1,80,530. The most worrying matter is that the number of active patients in the country has crossed the 20 lakh mark.
According to the Union Health Ministry, covid currently has 20,31,977 active in the country. That is, their treatment is either going on in the hospital or it is in home isolation on the instructions of the doctors.
The post Wife of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tested corona positive appeared first on The Edge Media.
]]>