Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to stay the order of the Ministry of Environment and Forest asking Lavasa Corporation to stop the construction at its township near Pune. The court, which was hearing the petition filed by Lavasa Corporation challenging the stay of the construction, directed the Ministry to take a final decision on the showcause notice issued to Lavasa by January 10. The High Court also...
06:23 PM, Dec 22, 2010
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up Maharashtra Govt over the Adarsh Housing Society scam. The court asked Maharashtra Government the reason as to why no FIR was filed in the case so far except for the one in connection to the missing papers of the Adarsh scam. The Bombay High Court said that there is clear cut manipulation by the collector, revenue department. The High Court asked...
06:09 PM, Dec 21, 2010
Mumbai: One more judge hearing the writ petition filed by Lavasa Corporation against Ministry of Environment and Forests in Bombay High Court has recused himself from the hearing case. Justice DK Deshmukh became the second judge to do in the case so far after Additional Solicitor General Darius Khambata informed the judge that justice Deshmukh's son was a lawyer in the law firm advising Lavasa's parent company Hindustan Construction Company....
11:43 AM, Dec 21, 2010
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed the directive of the union Ministry of Environment and Forests to Lavasa Corporation to stop construction of a township in a hill station in Maharashtra, calling the order "drastic" passed without giving prior hearing. A division bench of Justices DK Deshmukh and ND Deshpande asked Lavasa Corporation to approach MOEF by or on December 9. MOEF will give Lavasa a hearing as...
06:38 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Mumbai: In a temporary relief for the producers of hit TV reality show 'Bigg Boss', the Bombay High Court on Thursday stayed I&B Ministry's order to re-schedule the broadcast time of the programme. The High Court will also issue a notice to the Ministry scheduling the next hearing for November 22. As a result, the show can now be aired during the prime time till then. The court remarked that...
02:54 PM, Nov 18, 2010
Mumbai: A day after demanding that he may be allowed to be physically produced in the court, Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab on Wednesday refused to appear via video link before the Bombay High Court, which is hearing arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to him in 26/11 case. Soon after the proceedings began at 11 am, a jail authority told a division bench of justices Ranjana Desai and R...
04:01 PM, Oct 20, 2010
Mumbai: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on Tuesday threw a fit, fought and spat on webcam in a display of anger during the Bombay High Court hearing on the confirmation of death sentence awarded to him for his role in the terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. The apparent reason for Kasab's fit of anger is that he wants to be physically present in court for the hearing. Amidst...
03:17 PM, Oct 19, 2010
Mumbai: Unprecedented security arrangements have been made at the Bombay High Court where the hearing on the confirmation of the death sentence to Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab begins on Monday. Kasab will not be present in person but participate in the proceedings through video-conferencing in view of the threat perceptions against him. The day-to-day hearing will be taken up before a division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and...
11:43 AM, Oct 18, 2010
Pune: In Maharashtra the state government is caught in a new land controversy. After it cleared 25 thousand acres of land acquired from farmers for a lake resort near Pune, social activists are calling for the Centre to intervene claiming the land deal has no environment clearance. This controversy is rousing three months after Maharashtra's revenue minister Narayan Rane had ordered an enquiry into the transfer of land from farmers...
08:05 AM, Oct 13, 2010
Pune: Maharashtra government has finally decided to regularise the land transfer deal of the 25,000 Lavasa Resort City near Pune, where 25 thousand acres of land have been acquired from farmers to build a lake city resort. However green activists have now taken the issue to Bombay High Court claiming the land deal has no environment clearance and the court has admitted the petition. But the Maharashtra government’s decision to...
11:15 AM, Oct 09, 2010
Mumbai: The building industry has expressed doubts over timely completion of several mega private and government infrastructure projects with billions of rupees investment, in the wake of a recent Bombay High Court order that has banned sand mining across the state. The high court order of September 24 was given by a division bench of Justice BH Marlapalle and Justice Amjad Sayed on a writ petition filed by Awaaz Foundation,...
02:55 PM, Oct 08, 2010
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday decided to first hear arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab for his role in 26/11 attacks and then proceed with his appeal against conviction and capital punishment. Justices Ranjana Desai and R V More asked the Maharashtra government to open arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to Kasab for killing 166 persons in the dastardly terror...
02:27 PM, Oct 07, 2010
Mumbai: In a fresh development in the 26/11 terror attack case, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on Tuesday filed an appeal in Bombay High Court challenging death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 persons on November 26, 2008. "We have filed an appeal today," his lawyer Amin Solkar said. Kasab has challenged death penalty saying it was a harsh punishment imposed on him and pleaded that there were lapses in...
07:22 AM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to offer any immediate relief to Vodafone, which has challenged the Bombay High Court order allowing the government to tax the company's USD 11 billion deal with Hutch. The tax department had raised a demand for Rs 12,000 crore as tax on the 2007 deal. While refusing to stay the high court order, the apex court issued notices to the tax authorities...
01:27 PM, Sep 27, 2010
Mumbai: Close on the heals of RTI activists Satish Shetty and Datta Patil being brutally murdered in Maharashtra, another RTI activist Anwar Shaikh has approached the Bombay High Court, saying he has received death threats and has demanded protection. The court has admitted his plea for hearing. Shaikh said: "I got a threat saying forget about the cemetery otherwise you will be shot, I said do what you want so...
08:56 AM, Sep 23, 2010
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday imposed cost of Rs 50,000 on a petitioner, for filing a frivolous case. Devendra Patil, the petitioner, had challenged the validity of caste certificate issued to Ashok Patil, an NCP corporator from Navi Mumbai. Petitioner contended that Ashok Patil does not belong to the Kunbi caste which falls in OBC category. Patil is actually a Maratha, he said. Division bench of Justices D...
07:47 PM, Aug 25, 2010
Kasab had not been produced before the Bombay High Court because of security reasons. ...
02:11 PM, Aug 02, 2010
Ashok Kumar Shinde had earlier taken on the PWD with a string of RTIs and a PIL for their work. ...
11:59 AM, Jul 17, 2010
A religious trust has moved the Bombay High Court after the NSDL refused permission to open the accounts. ...
11:08 PM, Jul 12, 2010
The state Home Minister says the law would also cover attempts to hurt caste and religious sentiments. ...
09:13 PM, Jul 12, 2010
