Malavika Prasad is a former lawyer and now a City Reporter covering Delhi High Court for the Indian Express.
The last published article by Malavika Prasad was on 2024-07-12. This page is no longer being updated.

November 13, 2023 14:42 IST
The Delhi High Court had noted the shelter homes were being occupied by ineligible people.
Mon, Nov 13, 2023
November 11, 2023 10:24 IST
The Delhi High Court had taken cognisance of a report by The Indian Express on the alleged secret filming of students at IIT Delhi’s annual Rendezvous fest and raised concerns about the misuse of the videos.
Sat, Nov 11, 2023
November 10, 2023 18:24 IST
The HC had asked the departments to inform by when they would pay salaries to disengaged petitioner fellows as well as other similarly placed assistants and consultants for the services rendered by them.
Fri, Nov 10, 2023
November 10, 2023 09:52 IST
In their plea, the petitioners said there was no way for persons with disabilities to communicate their additional needs to Rapido while booking a ride, like requesting a little extra wait time or help with finding the location.
Fri, Nov 10, 2023
November 10, 2023 08:46 IST
The SC collegium had on Monday recommended the appointment of Justice Sharma along with then Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Augustine George Masih and the then Gauhati HC Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta as judges of the top court.
Fri, Nov 10, 2023
November 08, 2023 22:19 IST
The HC was hearing the 2021 plea by the petitioner company, M/s PPK NewsClick Studio Private Limited, which owns the digital portal, seeking quashing of an FIR registered by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW), as part of a batch of pleas pertaining to investigations by EOW and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against the company.
Wed, Nov 08, 2023
November 08, 2023 19:27 IST
The court also noted that around 394.56 hectares of forest land was encroached upon, out of which only 82.132 hectares have been made encroachment-free over four years.
Wed, Nov 08, 2023
November 08, 2023 17:29 IST
The plea claims the DDMA's order doesn't mention the proper law/rules that entitled the Delhi government to restrain worship by 30-40 lakh devotees.
Wed, Nov 08, 2023
November 08, 2023 15:49 IST
The plea sought a direction to the Centre and the Delhi Government to use the proper meaning of religion not “dharma” in documents.
Wed, Nov 08, 2023
November 07, 2023 19:41 IST
Among various things, the FIR alleges that the petitioner company, which owns the digital portal, had violated “FDI and other laws of the country and caused a loss to the exchequer”.
Tue, Nov 07, 2023
November 06, 2023 21:24 IST
The HC, thereafter, asked the counsel to get instructions on when the petitioner fellows and other similarly placed assistants and consultants would get their salaries.
Mon, Nov 06, 2023
November 06, 2023 15:54 IST
Metropolitan Magistrate (Tis Hazari) Arjinder Kaur had summoned Sunita Kejriwal on November 18. She had moved the HC seeking quashing of the summoning order.
Mon, Nov 06, 2023
November 03, 2023 19:53 IST
The court was hearing petitioner Bhavreen Kandhari’s contempt plea seeking action against tree officers who, despite clear directions of the HC in an April 2022 order requiring them to “spell out reasons for felling of even a single tree”, were not complying with the same.
Fri, Nov 03, 2023
November 03, 2023 12:01 IST
The high court was hearing a plea seeking audio description, subtitles, and captioning in Hindi for the OTT release of the movie 'Pathaan', allowing persons with hearing and visual disabilities to access the film.
Fri, Nov 03, 2023
November 03, 2023 09:35 IST
On September 21, Justice Subramonium Prasad, in an interim order directed that the services of the fellows should not be discontinued and stipend be paid to them till December 6.
Mon, Nov 06, 2023
November 02, 2023 15:35 IST
The Delhi High Court was informed that a similar plea on air pollution was listed on November 7 before the Supreme Court.
Thu, Nov 02, 2023
November 02, 2023 09:22 IST
The Delhi High Court remarked that the forest department must ensure that the Air Quality Index (AQI) level comes down.
Thu, Nov 02, 2023
November 01, 2023 19:57 IST
A single-judge bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh asked the Principal Secretary (Environment and Forest), Delhi government, to file a report under his signature indicating the action taken in a week.
Wed, Nov 01, 2023
November 01, 2023 15:09 IST
The High Court had denied bail to Umar Khalid last year. Khalid was also booked in the same FIR related to the 2020 Delhi riots case.
Thu, Nov 02, 2023
October 31, 2023 16:03 IST
Shankar Mishra had challenged a civil aviation ministry appellate committee’s order declining his request for certain documents. He said the documents would help him defend himself in the inquiry.
Tue, Oct 31, 2023
October 31, 2023 14:48 IST
The PIL sought a direction to 26 political parties prohibiting them from using the acronym and another to the Centre and ECI to take action against them for using the same.
Tue, Oct 31, 2023
October 30, 2023 17:58 IST
The plea claims that none of the guidelines were being complied with and no prior health check was conducted to ascertain if the deer were pregnant or not and that even young deer were being loaded onto trucks for translocation.
Tue, Oct 31, 2023
October 30, 2023 16:52 IST
The plea sought a direction to the respondent political parties prohibiting them from using the acronym.
Tue, Oct 31, 2023
October 21, 2023 04:40 IST
Delhi High Court reserved its verdict and listed it for pronouncement on October 25.
Sat, Oct 21, 2023
October 20, 2023 18:57 IST
A perusal of records, the HC said, revealed that all essential ingredients of Section 19 PMLA (power to arrest) have been complied with by ED.
Sat, Oct 21, 2023



