Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, May 27:
* Any act that threatens or intimidate a judge through gender-specific abuse is an assault on justice itself, the HC observed while refusing to reduce the sentence awarded to a lawyer for outraging the modesty of a female judicial officer with abusive words.
HC refused to grant interim protection from arrest to a trial court staff accused in a corruption case, saying the allegations are "very serious".
HC has asked authorities in the national capital to frame a policy on rehabilitation of stray dogs at an institutional level so that they are "phased out" from public roads and streets.
HC has taken judicial notice of a news report that over 3,000 soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles have to pass through a "foul-smelling and filthy drain" to move out of their barracks to go to the parade ground in Delhi Cantonment area.
Student activist Gulfisha Fatima, accused in a UAPA case over the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 riots, argued in the HC that she was part of a peaceful protest and there was no evidence to show her involvement in the violence. *