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The court refused to increase the number of people or allow use of other floors of the mosque for offering prayers.

Over the last year, 500 cases have been reported from Delhi's three prisons, including two deaths.

Many labs have also said that the 24-hour rule has led them to limit the number of collections a day at a time when case count is rising.

The Wire looks at the rules and regulations put in place by the Arvind Kejriwal government, to fight Delhi's COVID-19 situation.

Justice Mukta Gupta has allowed the mosque to remain open for prayers, rejecting the Centre and Delhi Police's submission that a cap be enforced.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav observed that there was no reason to incarcerate a man on the basis of implausible witness accounts.

US ships are setting a precedent for other navies to violate Indian territorial seas at will.

The Delhi Waqf Board has petitioned the high court, asking for intervention.

'We are deeply concerned that Parliament should pass a law which appears to make a mockery of constitutional provisions and their interpretation by the Supreme Court.'

Varun Hiremath was granted anticipator bail with the condition that he shall join the investigation whenever required.

In Delhi’s Budella, the Kejriwal government is building Sahitya Kala Parishad on a dried-up water body. The villagers The Wire spoke with said they want the water body to be revived.

Asked by the judge on what the sub-inspector did by way of investigation, he said, "I did not do anything."

The lanes of Shiv Vihar are ghettoising as fear – and real estate agents – drive families to sell homes. 

The case positivity rate also rose to 5.54% amid a massive surge in cases in the last few weeks.

"We deeply regret the growing antagonism towards media persons who are simply doing their job," the DUJ statement said.  

The police concluded that there was no illegal access to Aadhaar data, as was claimed initially, and there is "not enough evidence to probe the matter further".

Even while noting that the allegations against the accused are serious, the court felt that condemning the infant to spend his early childhood in jail would be a violation of his right to healthy development.

The petitioner claimed that he along with three others were beaten mercilessly by police personnel of the Turkman Gate police post on January 25 even when there was no written complaint against them.

In February, the court had come down heavily on the jail authorities about the killing, saying, "We see such things only in fiction."

Although the Centre announced monetary relief to street vendors under the SVANidhi scheme last year to mitigate financial hardship, the complex application process has left many vendors high and dry.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority ordered that there will be no public celebrations in the national capital for upcoming festivals such as Holi, Navaratri and Shab-e-Barat.

The court also quashed the FIR against the accused, observing that "since the complainant does not want to pursue the complaint it would be futile to continue with the prosecution".

The Bill makes it mandatory for the Delhi government to take the opinion of the L-G before any executive action.

The court noted that the statements of the witnesses were probably recorded after the last date of hearing in the matter, an FIR on which was registered more than a year ago.

While gangster Kuldeep alias Fajja managed to flee, the police nabbed one of his six associates who was injured in the gunfight. Another associate was killed.