Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Aug 8 (Monday): * Search Engine Google told HC that it has complied with the order to remove web links allegedly containing objectionable material against Union Minister Smriti Irani and her daughter and said the BJP leader may provide other URLs on which action will be taken.
* HC granted permission to 14 entities, which the Enforcement Directorate claims are connected to Chinese smartphone maker Vivo, to operate their frozen bank accounts subject to maintaining the balance which stood in the accounts as of the date of the agency’s search in a money laundering probe.
* HC sought the stand of several officials of the Public Works Department and the Delhi Police on a plea seeking contempt action for alleged damage to trees while carrying out construction activities on a road in the Rohini area.
* A sex worker is entitled to all rights available to a citizen and she cannot claim any special treatment in case of violation of any law, HC has observed.
*HC has asked the Centre to state if its financial aid for the treatment of rare diseases would cover the expenses of the second and third phases of clinical trials of an experimental drug for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and the treatment of children enrolled in those trials.
* HC has allowed a plea by a 70-year-old ill man, suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, to access a portable ultrasound machine at his home which is prohibited under law. PTI ADS SKV RKS RKS
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