Delhi News Live Updates: Delhi court grants conditional stay on attachment of Bikaner House

Delhi News Today Live Updates: Owned by Nokha municipal council in Rajasthan, the Bikaner House had failed to pay an arbitral award of Rs 50.31 lakh to a company.

Delhi Live News Updates: Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Friday granted a conditional stay on the attachment of Bikaner House located on the iconic India Gate hexagon, which is owned by Nokha municipal council in Rajasthan. The stay is subject to depositing the owed amount within a week in arbitral dispute case. The next date of hearing is January 8.

Delhi Air Pollution: The national capital woke up to ‘very poor’ air quality on Friday as Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) at 8 am was recorded at 331, making it the most polluted city in the country. Among the 37 air quality monitoring stations, 22 indicated ‘very poor’ AQI levels. Notably, Bawana and Mundka experienced ‘severe’ air quality, with AQIs of 429 and 404, respectively. While calm winds prevail in the capital, the visibility at Indira Gandhi International Airport was measured at 1100 meters as of 8 am.

In other news, the Delhi High Court on Friday may hear a plea by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging the framing of charges of murder and other offences against him in a case related to the killing of three people in north Delhi’s Pul Bangash area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Last month, Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri, after briefly hearing the matter, asked Tytler’s counsel to file statements of certain witnesses which were not on record. Tytler, in his plea, claimed he was a victim of a “witch-hunt” and contended that the trial court’s order framing charges against him was perverse, illegal and lacked application of mind.

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17:23 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Traffic affected on Ashoka Road after portion of road caves in

Traffic was affected on Ashoka Road in Lutyens' Delhi after a portion of the road caved in on early Friday, police said.

Taking to X, the Delhi Traffic Police said, "Traffic is affected on Ashoka road in the carriageway from C-Hexagon towards Windsor Place due to road cave-in near Windsor Place." A senior police officer said the portion has been barricaded to prevent vehicles from passing through the affected area.

The pit has been covered so that the traffic movement can be resumed on the portion, the officer said, adding that the remaining work will be carried out later.--PTI

16:47 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: HC agrees to prepone hearing on BJP MLAs plea seeking CAG reports in assembly

The Delhi High Court on Friday preponed the hearing on a plea filed by several BJP MLAs seeking a direction to place 12 CAG reports related to liquor duty, pollution and finance before the assembly.

The high court allowed an early hearing application filed by the petitioners and preponed the matter from December 9 to December 2.

"For the reasons stated in the application, the hearing is scheduled for Monday," Justice Sanjeev Narula said.

The application was filed in a pending petition by Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta and Delhi BJP MLAs Mohan Singh Bisht, Om Prakash Sharma, Ajay Kumar Mahawar, Abhay Verma, Anil Kumar Bajpai and Jitendra Mahajan.

Advocate Anil Soni, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that there was urgency in the matter as the Winter Session of Delhi Legislative Assembly has commenced today and it will continue till December 3.

The counsel urged the court to prepone the date of hearing in the matter. He said the respondents have not yet filed their replies to the petition.--PTI

16:30 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: AAP-BJP blame each other in Delhi Assembly over reinstatement of bus marshals

The ruling AAP and opposition BJP MLAs indulged in a blame game over the issue of removal of the bus marshals on the first day of the last session of the five-year tenure of the Delhi Assembly on Friday, with Chief Minister Atishi saying the proposal to reinstate them was pending with the LG.

Participating in a discussion over the the issue, Atishi said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not field any candidate against Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta from Rohini assembly seat if he convinced Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena to approve the proposal for reinstating 10,000 bus marshals.

Speaking in a lighter vein, the chief minister also said she will campaign for Gupta in the elections if he got the proposal approved by the LG.

She defended AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal who was accused by the BJP of directing to remove the bus marshals from November, 2023.--PTI

16:02 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: JNU received 151 sexual harassment complaints since 2017, data reveals

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has recorded 151 sexual harassment complaints since 2017, the year its Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) replaced Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Harassment (GSCASH), according to data obtained through an RTI application.

The university claims to have resolved nearly 98 per cent of these complaints, with only three cases currently under investigation.

However, when asked about the nature of the complaints and the action taken against the accused, JNU refused to provide information, citing confidentiality.--PTI

15:42 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Congress MPs from Punjab protest against slow paddy procurement, fertiliser shortage

Congress MPs from Punjab on Friday staged a protest in the Parliament complex against alleged delay in paddy procurement and fertiliser shortage, and demanded that the government compensate the farmers who were forced to sell their produce below the minimum support price (MSP).

Congress MP from Ludhiana and the party's Punjab chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring blamed the BJP-led Union government and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab for the situation.

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14:22 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Private school receives bomb threat email day after low-intensity blast

A private school in Delhi's Rohini, located within one kilometre of the site of a low-intensity blast in Prashant Vihar, received a bomb threat via email, earlier today. "At about 10:40 am, we received an email from anonymous id saying that we have planted an explosive in your school. We immediately started evacuation of children from the school and also called '100'. We took parents into confidence and evacuated the school building by 11:10 am. Multiple police teams, bomb squad, (sniffer) dog squad are investigating and searching every nook and corner of the school. Teachers and staff also checked the campus thoroughly, but we have not found any suspicious substance," says Dr Namita Singhal, Principal, Venkateshwar Global School. - PTI

13:29 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: 'Survey complete, report yet to be complete', advocate representing petitioners

After Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Friday granted a conditional stay on the attachment of Bikaner House Advocate Gopal Sharma representing the petitioners said: "...the survey report was not presented before the Court today. The survey has been completed, but the survey report has not been completed. The survey involved photography and videography. Nothing else was done. Water from the wazukhana was emptied to take pictures of the wajukhana."

The next date of hearing is on January 8.

13:12 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Private school receives bomb threat email day after low-intensity blast

A private school in Delhi's Rohini received a bomb threat via email on Friday, a day after a low-intensity blast in the Prashant Vihar area in which a person was injured, Delhi Fire Service officials said.

The threat was later declared a hoax after a thorough search in the school premises, they said.

According to an official, a call was received from the Delhi Police about the bomb threat email at 10.57 am.

A team of the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) immediately reached the spot. Police, bomb disposal squad, dog squad, along with DFS personnel checked and searched the entire premises of the school, the officer said.

Non suspicious object was found and the threat was declared a hoax, the officer added.

Police have launched an investigation into the matter, he said. - PTI

12:51 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: No respite from pollution woes, air quality remains very poor in city

Delhi woke up to persistently “very poor” air quality for the sixth consecutive day on Friday.

At 9 AM, Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 329, placing it in the “very poor” category, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Out of 39 monitoring stations, two stations — Bhawana (426) and Mundka (408) recorded air quality in the “severe” category, while 22 stations remained in the “very poor” category, and the rest fell under the “poor” category, according to the Sameer app, which provides hourly data.

An AQI between 301 and 400 is classified as “very poor”, while levels above 400 are considered “severe”. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered “good”, 51-100 “satisfactory”, 101-200 “moderate”, 201-300 “poor”, 301-400 “very poor”, 401-450 “severe” and above 450 “severe-plus”.

At 8.30 am, the humidity level was recorded at 97 percent, with the weather department forecasting a mainly clear sky for the day.

The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to settle at 27 and 9 degrees Celsius respectively. - PTI

12:05 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: 'We will request the Court more time to complete the survey', says advocate in arbitral dispute case

After Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Friday granted a conditional stay on the attachment of Bikaner House Advocate Commissioner Ramesh Raghav told the media, "When the first survey was conducted on November 19, there was sloganeering. During the second survey on November 24, there was a lot of violence, and the situation went out of control so the survey could not be conducted in a proper manner. We will request the Court more time to complete the survey."

Raghav also told the Indian Express that ten days time was granted.

The next date of hearing is on January 8.

11:38 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Delhi court grants conditional stay on attachment of Bikaner House in arbitral dispute case

A Delhi court had directed the attachment of Bikaner House located on the iconic India Gate hexagon in the national capital, which is owned by Nokha municipal council in Rajasthan, after it failed to pay an arbitral award of Rs 50.31 lakh to a company.

“…It is ordered that you, the said Nagar Palika, Nokha, State of Rajasthan…are hereby, prohibited and restrained, until further orders of this court, from transferring or charging the property specified in the schedule hereunto annexed, by sale, gift or otherwise…,” said District Judge Vidya Prakash in the prohibitory order dated November 7.

In an earlier order passed on September 18, the judge had noted the non-compliance of the court’s directions. The court also noted that the 2020 arbitral award in favour of Enviro Infra Engineers Private Limited has attained finality after an appeal preferred by the Nagar Palika was dismissed earlier this year.

Following the developments, the Rajasthan government on Thursday issued instructions to take immediate “corrective actions”, officials said, engaging Additional Advocate General Shiv Mangal Sharma to represent the state’s interests in this matter and directing him “to take all necessary legal steps” to secure the property and obtain a stay on the attachment order.

11:18 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Delhi court grants conditional stay on attachment of Bikaner House

Delhi's Patiala House Court grants a conditional stay on the attachment of Bikaner House. This stay is subject to depositing the due amount within a week. The next date of hearing is January 7, 2025.

10:40 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates: Gurgaon court denies anticipatory bail to news anchor Chitra Tripathi

A Gurgaon court earlier this week denied anticipatory bail to TV news anchor Chitra Tripathi in connection with a 2013 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act case, observing that the reasons cited in the bail application were “unjustified”.

On November 14, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant for Tripathi’s arrest for not appearing before it, saying that she was taking court proceedings “quite lightly”. A warrant was also issued against Syed Suhail, the news anchor of another TV channel.

Eight media professionals had been booked for allegedly telecasting and later uploading on the internet a video of a 10-year-old girl in an “obscene and vulgar manner” and linking it to a sexual assault case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. The case was registered under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code; sections 67B (publishing or transmitting of material depicting children in sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form) and 66(2) (computer related offences) of the Information Technology Act; and section 23 of the POCSO Act under which the disclosure of the identity of the child is a punishable offence.

10:19 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates Candidates suffering with colour vision cannot be recruited in Delhi Police: Delhi HC

The Division Bench of Delhi High Court has recently held that applicants suffering with colour vision cannot be appointed as constables in Delhi Police.

The bench headed by Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Amit Sharma observed that "there can be no cavil with the finding of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) that defective colour vision is a defect. As such, the petitioners clearly suffer from a defect which renders them unfit for appointment as constables in the Delhi Police." The High Court further held that the standards of medical fitness of candidates in forces, including Delhi Police, have to be stricter and higher than those who apply for civilian posts.

The petitioners had approached the High Court with a writ petition challenging the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal, by which it refused to entertain an application seeking an appointment in Delhi Police.

It was contended through the petitioners' advocate that 'defective colour vision' is not 'colour blindness', hence they should appointed as constables in Delhi Police.

The Delhi Police, through Central Government Standing Counsel Ashish Dixit Advocate, opposed the writ petition and contended that colour vision is a defect and therefore, in terms of advertisement, the candidates should be free from defects.

Noted this, the High Court bench said, "We do not find any cause to interfere with the judgement of the Tribunal. This writ petitions accordingly stand dismissed in limine."

(With ANI inputs)

09:47 (IST) 29 Nov 2024
Delhi News Live Updates | Watch | Layer of smog covers the national capital. Delhi's AQI remains in 'very poor' category. Visuals from Anand Vihar area.

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09:45 (IST) 29 Nov 2024

Good Morning!

Delhi woke up to ‘very poor’ air quality today as the AQI hit 331, making Delhi the most polluted city in the country.

Carry your masks and stay tuned for latest updates!

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