Delhi High Court Act, 1966

The petitioners, Superintendents of the Delhi High Court, challenged the treatment of their posts as equal status with Court Masters (Readers) and Private Secretaries, arguing that it violated Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. They also contested the restriction of the "zone of consideration" for promotion to Ass…

Messer Griesheim GmbH (now Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH) obtained a money decree of the English High Court, a superior court of a reciprocating territory, for US $5.8 million. The decree, exceeding Rs 20 lakhs, was filed for execution before the Delhi High Court. The Division Bench held that only a District Court could…

R.J. Shah appealed to the Himachal Pradesh High Court against a judgment of a single judge of that court, invoking the Letters Patent of the former Lahore High Court under Clause 9/10. The High Court held that the Lahore Letters Patent did not apply to Himachal Pradesh, that no appeal under those clauses was maintainab…

The Ashok Nagar Welfare Association filed suits under Section 6 of the Specific Relief Act seeking possession of land allegedly occupied unlawfully by the respondents. A Single Judge of the Delhi High Court passed ex‑parte decrees on the basis that summons were served, although the summons were later found not to have …