A court here on Wednesday granted bail to Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti, who is accused in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra. Additional Sessions Judge Anil Kumar released Bharti on bail asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of...

A court today extended, till 19 October, the judicial custody of Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti in a domestic violence case filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. A magistrate’s court remanded Bharti in 14 days judicial custody after he was presented before it after expiry of his one-day judici...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday criticised the central government for giving priority to the domestic violence case against its leader Somnath Bharti, saying it looks like the government does not want him to be released on bail. “The attorney general, solicitor general and additional solicitor g...

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Lipika Mitra, the estranged wife of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti whether she was inclined to join mediation efforts as offered by her husband to resolve all issues between them. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy issu...

The protracted war of attrition between Delhi’s ex-law minister Somnath Bharti and police ended on Monday evening when Bharti surrendered to police in a domestic violence case filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Malviya Nagar constituency in south Delhi reached ...

Don, the dog most wanted by Delhi Police until recently, is not aggressive and has never bitten anybody, said his owner and former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, citing the medical report of his pet. Bharti said his pet dog, Don, “cannot bite any one as he is a Golden Labrador”, a breed that is ...

In a relief to former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, booked in a domestic violence case, the Delhi high court today continued the protection granted to him against arrest and reserved its order on his anticipatory bail plea. Justice Suresh Kait, after hearing the arguments of police and Bharti, ...

In a relief to former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, booked in a domestic violence case on his wife’s complaint, the Delhi high court on Tuesday granted him protection against arrest till September 17. Justice Suresh Kait issued notice and sought a police report on the status of investigation in...

“Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has given charge of the ministry to his deputy Manish Sisodia and removed Kapil Mishra,” reported NDTV , citing sources who said Mishra would focus on the tourism and water ministry. Just over two months ago, Mishra was appointed to replace Jitender Singh Tomar, who w...

The union government will urge the Supreme Court’s e-committee to allow audio-visual (AV) recording of Supreme Court proceedings to “usher transparency as it would discourage witnesses from retracting their statements” and to prevent “unwarranted delay in trials (through re-recording of witness test...

Kapil Mishra to be Delhi’s new Law and Tourism Minister replacing jailed Jitender Singh Tomar.

On 13 February 2014, towards the tail-end of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) short-lived first tenure in charge of Delhi, then-Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti wrote a 15-page letter to his party colleagues.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), set to win Delhi in a landslide election today, has promised to video court proceedings, while running courts in double shifts “if required” to clear backlogs.

The Delhi high court Tuesday dismissed former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti’s plea seeking to quash an NHRC order against him related to his controversial midnight campaign against an alleged drug and prostitution racket in the capital. Justice VK Shali directed Bharti to approach the court once...

Former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti yesterday moved the Delhi high court against the NHRC decision asking the city government to pay Rs 25,000 each to the Ugandan women “victims of racial prejudice and unlawful acts” whose homes the AAP leader had allegedly barged into during a controversial mi...

The counsel of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, Deepak Khosla, will appeal to the high court against the dismissal of Bharti’s plea to register a First Information Report (FIR) against police officers. Khosla will also continue to fight in his criminal defamation compl...

Advocate Deepak Khosla, who complained to Delhi high court chief justice (CJ) G Rohini yesterday against metropolitan magistrate Niti Phutela’s recusal and transfer of his case to another judge, has filed a criminal defamation case against Phutela in the Saket district court, asking for Rs 50 crore ...

Metropolitan Magistrate Ankita Lal today transferred the alleged midnight raid case against former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti to a higher court after being annoyed by defence counsel Deepak Khosla.

Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti today filed a plea seeking further investigation and registration of a first information report against erring officials, accusing them of bias in the probe into the 16 January midnight raid on a Delhi house. Bharti has also claimed Rs. 250 crore in compens...

A charge sheet was filed against Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti and 17 others for molestation and creating a ruckus during the Jan 16 midnight raid on a house in south Delhi, police said Wednesday. Delhi Police filed the charge sheet before Metropolitan Magistrate Chetna Singh Sep 29. Th...