Delhi HC Dismisses Wadia Appeals, Refuses Higher Consultancy Fees In Married Accommodation Project Dispute

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed appeals filed by Wadia Techno Engineering Services Limited challenging arbitral awards in disputes arising from consultancy agreements for defence housing projects, holding that the consultant was not entitled to higher fees or compensation for delays. The court upheld a single judge's order refusing to interfere with the arbitral awards while maintaining the limited setting aside of certain claims relating to the Vizag project. A Division Bench of...

Mohanlal Withdraws Plea For Interim Relief In Personality Rights Suit Before Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Malayalam actor Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair to withdraw his application seeking an interim injunction in a personality rights suit, after the court indicated that the plea lacked the necessary specificity to enable enforceable takedown directions against intermediaries such as Meta and Google. A single bench of Justice Jyoti Singh permitted the withdrawal with liberty to file a fresh application containing detailed particulars, including a defendant-wise...

Bombay High Court Allows Raj Kundra's Company To Challenge UK Anti-Suit Injunction In Rajasthan Royals Dispute

The Bombay High Court on Monday granted leave under Clause XII of the Letters Patent to Kuki Investments Limited, a company owned by Raj Kundra, to institute a suit challenging an anti-suit injunction passed by the High Court of England and Wales in a dispute relating to the affairs of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals. Allowing the petition seeking permission to file the suit against Emerging Media Ventures Ltd. and others, Justice Abhay Ahuja observed that the court was satisfied that grounds...

Order By Govt. Secretary Cannot Be Recalled Without Fraud Or Misrepresentation: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an order passed by the Secretary on behalf of the State Government cannot be recalled unless it suffers from misrepresentation, fraud, or is without legal authority. A Bench of Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Swarupama Chaturvedi observed: “In our considered view an order if does not suffer from any misrepresentation or fraud or an order is not bad for want of authority of law, it is to be taken as genuine order passed after due application of mind and...

Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of 'Defamatory, Obscene' Online Content Targeting Acharya Balkrishna

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday passed an interim order directing removal of specific online content targeting Patanjali Ayurved Co-Founder Acharya Balkrishna after observing that several links appeared to be “defamatory,” “obscene,” and “vulgar” and prima facie infringed his personality rights. During today's hearing, Justice Tushar Rao Gedela examined an abridged 18-page compilation of URLs submitted by the plaintiff and clarified that while satire and parody are protected forms of speech,...

State's Failure To Promptly Execute Section 14 SARFAESI Order Defeats Purpose Of Law: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has recently observed that failure of state authorities to implement orders passed under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act, which empowers the District Magistrate to assist secured creditors in taking physical possession of secured assets, defeats the statutory mandate of expeditious enforcement of security interests and undermines binding judicial precedents, observing that such inaction paralyses the statutory mechanism. Allowing a writ petition filed by IIFL...

Rejection Of Impleadment Is A Jurisdictional Determination, Appealable Under Section 37 Arbitration Act: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has recently held that rejection of an impleadment application by an arbitral tribunal amounts to a jurisdictional determination under Sections 16(2) and 16(3) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, and is therefore appealable under Section 37 of the Act. Justice Avneesh Jhingan observed that while deciding whether a non-signatory can be added to arbitration proceedings, the tribunal necessarily rules on its own jurisdiction. “The court on an application for...

Delhi High Court Restores Temporary Injunction Protecting STELLADEXIN Trademark Used For Induction Cookers

The Delhi High Court on Monday set aside a single judge's order and restored an interim injunction protecting the “STELLADEXIN” trademark used for commercial induction cookers.In a judgment pronounced on March 23, 2026, a division bench comprising Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that the single bench incorrectly applied the principles of international exhaustion and prior user to vacate the original injunction order. The court observed that since the appellant is...

Gautam Gambhir Withdraws His Plea For Interim Relief In Personality Rights Suit Before Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Indian cricket coach Gautam Gambhir to withdraw his application seeking interim injunction in a personality rights suit after the court pointed out serious defects in the pleadings and the absence of specific “takedown” prayers identifying the allegedly infringing content.The application was withdrawn after Justice Jyoti Singh observed during the hearing that the plaintiff had not provided a defendant-wise and URL-wise list of content sought to be removed,...

Moratorium Doesn't Extinguish The Criminal Liability In Terms Of 32A When The Plan Is Not Approved.

The Delhi High Court on 17 March 2026 held that Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) only creates a temporary moratorium and does not extinguish criminal liability. Protection under Section 32A is available only after the approval of a resolution plan that brings about a qualifying change in management. The Bench of Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha dismissed the plea of JAS Infrastructure and Power Ltd. seeking suspension of sentence in a coal block allocation case. The...

Balance Depreciation Allowed In Subsequent Year For Assets Used Less Than 180 Days: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court on 2 March held that a taxpayer is entitled to claim the balance 50% of additional depreciation in the subsequent assessment year where new plant and machinery are put to use for less than 180 days in the year of acquisition. A Bench of Justice G. Jayachandran and Justice Shamim Ahmed allowed an appeal filed by Wheels India Limited against an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal for the assessment year 2007–08, which had upheld the partial disallowance of the...

Delhi High Court Temporarily Restrains US-Based Company Spa De Soleil From Using 'Dermatouch' Trademark

The Delhi High Court has granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of Cloud Wellness Pvt Ltd and its director. The Court restrained US-based Spa De Soleil Inc from using the trademark “DERMATOUCH” or any identical or deceptively similar mark. The Court held that the plaintiffs had made out a strong prima facie case of prior use, registration, goodwill and reputation in the mark. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the order on March 20, 2026. The Court observed that the plaintiffs had...