Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Tuesday, April 23: *HC sought the city government’s response on a plea seeking a direction for expeditious filling of the vacant position of chairperson and members in the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
*HC asked payment app BharatPe’s former MD Ashneer Grover not to transfer or create any third party rights in the shares transferred to him to the company’s co-founder Bhavik Koladiya.
*HC observed that unauthorised constructions were going on galore in disputed Waqf properties and no one was looking after them, as it stressed the need for proper monitoring.
*HC reserved order on a plea by former Popular Front of India (PFI) chairman E Abubacker seeking his release in an UAPA case being probed by the National Investigation Agency.
*HC remarked that the functioning of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, was worse than that of a government department as it failed to properly respond to media group TV Today Network’s plea against the blocking of its Instagram page Harper’s Bazaar India.
*HC refused to grant anticipatory bail to three men allegedly running a sextortion syndicate through video calls, saying sextortion is a significant social menace and often leads to severe psychological trauma.
*HC said it is the duty of the State to safeguard and enforce rights guaranteed to transgenders under the Constitution and directed the police here to provide necessary security to a person from the transgender community for filing nomination for contesting the Lok Sabha elections.
*HC asked the government to frame within 8 weeks a policy for grant of compensation to those who have lost their life and limbs in accidents because of use of Chinese manjha for kite- flying. PTI ADS SKV RHL
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