Mumbai: Congress MLA Kripashankar Singh had to step down from the post of Mumbai Pradesh Congress chief after an indictment from the Bombay High Court in disproportionate assets case. But for someone who began his life in Mumbai in 1973 as a vegetable seller, it's perhaps an incredible rags to riches tale. Kripashankar Singh and his family, whose reported source of income is a salary of Rs 45,000, now owns...
07:22 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has criticised the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for inaction in the investigation into the Adarsh Housing Society scam. This came even as the CBI told the court on Tuesday that many of the flats in the society were benami. The CBI will file a detailed affidavit on the ownership of the flats on March 12. But the court said that the Enforcement Directorate Director should also...
02:04 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police is expected to lodge an FIR against the former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh on Monday in connection with an alleged Rs 320 crore disproportionate assets case. Singh had stepped down after the High Court order against him. Earlier on February 24, terming the maze of transactions by Kripashankar Singh and his family members as 'dubious', the Bombay High Court had held that the leader's...
07:20 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Mumbai: Congress leader Kripashankar Singh resigned as the party's Mumbai president soon after the Bombay High Court directed the city police to file an FIR against him under the prevention of corruption act in a disproportionate assets case. While Singh claims he quit taking moral responsibility for the Congress' loss in the Mumbai civic elections, many feel he had it coming for a long time due to repeated allegations of...
06:41 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: In a double blow to the Congress in Mumbai after the bad show in the municipal polls, party chief Kripashankar Singh has been made accused in a corruption case by the High Court. The announcement of Singh's resignation came soon after the Bombay High Court directed his prosecution on corruption charges. Singh told CNN-IBN that his resignation had nothing to do with the charges against him. "There is...
02:01 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik to register an FIR against Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh for criminal misconduct under the Prevention of Corruption Act and has asked the Commissioner to attach all immovable properties belonging to Singh and his family. Kripashankar Singh has resigned as Mumbai Congress chief following the court directive. The court has also asked the Commissioner to obtain sanction...
05:58 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has reduced the life sentence awarded to a man, who killed his wife for not cooking food for him, to ten years in jail saying the crime was not pre-planned. The court, in the ruling last week, observed that the murder was over a "petty reason and not pre-planned" and Kamlya Waghmare cannot be held guilty under section 302 of IPC for murder, but only...
11:05 AM, Feb 20, 2012
'Jodi Breakers' is in controversy after the producers of a French film filed a law suit for copyright infringement. ...
06:48 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Bollywood director Subhash Ghai says he will appeal in the Supreme Court for the Whistling Woods land. ...
11:51 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood director Subhash Ghai will challenge in the Supreme Court the Bombay High Court order Thursday asking him to return a plot of land allotted to his Whistling Woods International film institute. "We respect the high court's judgement and we will appeal to the Supreme Court. We are not at fault and have done nothing wrong," Ghai told IANS. "We had a legal joint venture in 2002 with the...
12:58 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has claimed that there was no foul play in the land deal during the Vilasrao Deshmukh government. ...
10:47 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Owner of Whistling Woods and filmmaker Subhash Ghai speaks on HC order to surrender land allotted to him. ...
05:38 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: In a setback for Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Mumbai High court has ordered that the land given to Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts in 2006 be taken back. The court has also asked Ghai to pay Rs 5.3 crore annually from 2000, from the time Mukta Arts entered into a joint venture with the state government. Deshmukh was the Maharashtra Chief Minister during the time when the land allotment...
03:45 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court is all set to hear the appeals filed by Yasmeen Shaikh and 9 others convicted in the 2002 Best Bakery case on Tuesday. Shaikh filed the appeal saying she was 'lured and misguided' into giving false testimony against the 17 accused by social activist Teesta Setalvad. Of the 17 accused, nine have been convicted and are serving life sentence. The court might rule either...
09:19 AM, Feb 07, 2012
The SC has set aside a Bombay HC ruling asking Vodafone to pay over Rs 11,000 crore as tax on the Vodafone-Hutch deal. ...
10:06 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: A Pakistani judicial commission, which will interview key persons linked to the probe into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, will be allowed to visit India in the first week of February as the Bombay High Court has given its consent for it. The High Court has informed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that the in principle approval for the visit of the Pakistani judicial commission has been...
06:12 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Mumbai: Refusing to grant any relief, the Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation filed by a Pune-based activist seeking investigations into the trust of Anna Hazare. The PIL filed by Hemant Patil, president of Rashtriya Brashtachar Virodhi Janshakti, claimed that Hazare's Hind Swaraj Trust had not submitted audit reports from the year 2005 to 2007 before the Charity Commissioner. Seeking a probe against Hazare and the...
05:49 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Mumbai: Team Anna has managed to secure the MMRDA ground in Mubai to agitate at Rs 7.8 lakh. The ground can easily accommodate around 50,00 people. The preparations for the rally are going to start soon. This came after the Bombay High Court refused to give the ground to Team Anna for free. Team Anna on Friday got the rough end of the stick from Bombay High Court when a...
03:17 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi/Mumbai: Anna Hazare on Friday braced himself up for a three-day fast in Mumbai from December 27, forced to cough up about Rs 7 lakh as rental for the MMRDA ground after the Bombay High Court rejected a petition seeking free or discounted rates for the venue. 74-year-old Hazare, who will undertake the fast to protest against a "weak" Lokpal bill, said he will organise the rental amount through...
07:47 AM, Dec 24, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed Team Anna's petition asking for a fee waiver at MMRDA Grounds dealing a blow to India Against Corruption. The court said they were not eligible for a waiver as they had not applied through a registered organisation. Mayank Gandhi, IAC said, "We came with a hope, but the HC has observed that it is not under its purview to grant such a...
09:19 PM, Dec 23, 2011
