New Delhi/Mumbai: In a relief to developers and property buyers in Maharashtra on the vexed VAT issue, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Bombay High Court judgment and gave them two more months to pay the tax arrears, an official said. An apex court bench comprising Justice RM Lodha, Justice AR Dave and Justice Ranjan Gogoi passed the interim order while hearing a special leave petition (SLP) filed by...
02:45 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Mumbai: A division bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing a bunch of PILs in Adarsh scam case and also the application of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan who has sought quashing of the corruption case against him. "Not before us," a division bench of Justices SA Bobde and RG Ketkar said on Tuesday when the PILs came up for hearing. The bench, however,...
09:27 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to hear the plea by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan seeking to quash the case against him in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Chavan had moved the Bombay High Court on Monday to quash the case against him. Justice Bobabde, however, refused to hear the case. In his petition, Chavan had stated that the Adarsh Commission interim report ruled that...
01:52 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Mumbai: There has been a setback for the victims of the Mumbai Azad Maidan violence. The Bombay High Court has refused to order an investigation by a special agency, questioning the need to hastily transfer the case to another body. A plea was filed by three victims alleging that the police attempted to murder them and may prejudice the investigation. Two people were killed and 46 were injured in the...
04:03 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court yesterday took a strong view against illegally parked generator vans on Bantara Bhavan Road in Kurla (East) and asked for an affidavit from the senior inspector (traffic) of the area, detailing what steps his department has taken to deal with the menace. On July 10, MiD DAY had reported (Generator vans spark traffic nightmare) that over 150 trucks, mostly generator vans, were parked along the...
02:44 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Transport Minister Gulabrao Deokar, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Bombay High Court order cancelling his bail plea in connection with a housing scam. Deokar had been named in the Jalgaon Housing Society scam. Following the HC order, the minister filed an appeal in the apex court, which stayed his arrest till August 21. ...
03:07 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday rejected the bail of NCP leader and Minister of State for Transport Gulabrao Deokar. He was arrested in connection with the Jalgaon housing society scam. NCP Maharshtra chief Madhukar Pichad has said that the party has sought Gulabrao's resignation. Between 1995 and 2000, Deokar was member of the Jalgaon Municipal Council The scam pertains to the construction of...
01:29 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Mumbai: Bombay High Court recently dismissed an Income Tax department appeal against an order in favour of actor Amitabh Bachchan, holding that the plea did not involve any substantial question of law. On October 13, 2002, Bachchan had filed his income tax return, declaring his earnings to be Rs 14.99 crore, for the assessment year 2002-2003. On March 31, 2002, he filed a revised return of income on the basis...
11:23 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notices to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray, Registrar of the High Court and state government on a contempt petition filed by a city lawyer against the MNS leader for allegedly defaming the judiciary. The notices were issued by Justice BR Gavai who has kept the matter for hearing on August 3. The petition said that Raj had allegedly referred to...
07:54 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: After three former CMs, two former Army Chiefs General Deepak Kapoor and General NC Vij will appear before the judicial commission probing the Adarsh Housing society scam on Wednesday. Both could be questioned on why no alarm was raised regarding the security threat to military establishments from Adarsh. They had got membership in the controversial housing society when Vilasrao Deshmukh was Chief Minister of Maharashtra. But they gave...
06:25 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has awarded a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for the witnesses in the 2002 Best Bakery case. The court also ruled that the state should provide protection to witnesses in sensitive cases like these. The court had on Monday acquitted five accused in the case for want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court. A...
03:36 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Best Bakery, a small outlet in the Hanuman Tekri area of Vadodara, was allegedly attacked by a mob, which burned down the bakery, killing 14 people on March 1, 2002. The attack was part of the 2002 Gujarat violence. The mob targeted the Muslims inside, including the Sheikh family which ran the bakery. All the fourteen people, who were killed, had taken refuge in the Best Bakery...
06:37 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted five accused in the 2002 Best Bakery riots case for want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court. A division bench comprising Justices VM Kanade and PD Kode, who had on July 3 reserved the judgement on the appeals filed by the accused against the trial court verdict, upheld the life sentence...
05:50 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan is among the 14 people chargesheeted by the CBI on Wednesday in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing scam, which also includes several retired Army officers and top Maharashtra bureaucrats. Former Maharashtra Chief Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde have not been named in the chargesheet. The 10,000-page CBI chargesheet was filed before the Registrar of a sessions court; nearly 18 months after...
01:21 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Mumbai: In a new development in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, the Maharashtra government has questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) jurisdiction in investigating the case. As the CBI gets ready to file its chargesheet in the case, the government has filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court saying it had never asked for inquiry by the central probe agency in the first place. The scam had fuelled...
08:48 AM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Ashok Chavan is all set to appear before the judicial panel probing the Adarsh Scam on Saturday, becoming the third former Maharashtra Chief Minister to do so. Chavan had on May 23 sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing scam. He had been forced to resign in 2010 after the scam came to light. The CBI says it was Chavan...
09:30 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Mumbai: Charges will be framed in the Keenan-Reuben murder case in the Bombay High Court on Friday. The two youngsters were stabbed to death by a mob in October in 2011 for fighting against sexual harassment. Four people were arrested for murder and sexual harassment and several others were booked for rioting in the case. On October 20, 2011, 28-year-old Reuben Fernandez and 25-year-old Keenan Santos were attacked with choppers...
08:21 AM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: The government is expected to file a reply in the Bombay High Court on Wednesday regarding a PIL against hike in petrol prices. The court had last week sought a response from the Centre, Petroleum and Finance Ministries on a PIL that claims the hike was illegal as it wasn't endorsed by Parliament. The PIL, filed by Rajendra Phanse, submitted that the petrol prices were hiked abruptly on...
09:09 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Mumbai: Hearing a petition seeking action against a laughter club in the city, the Bombay High Court has observed that it is not proper to gather outside someone's house and laugh aloud. The petition, filed by a family, alleged that members of a laughter club called Sheetal Jogging Association gathered at Sheetal Talao in suburban Kurla and laughed loudly causing "mental agony, pain and public nuisance". Justice S A Bobade...
09:36 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court will resume hearing the Adarsh housing society case on Monday. In the last hearing on April 30, the CBI had told the court that it will file the chargesheet in the case by June 15. However, with its failure to file the chargesheet, the agency is likely to again come under attack from the court. The CBI had arrested nine of the 14 accused...
07:20 AM, Jun 18, 2012
