A week after two girls were arrested in Palghar for their remarks on Bal Thackerey's death, the state administration has finally taken some action. ...
09:05 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena unit of Palghar has called for bandh on Wednesday in favour of police officials who were suspended a week after two girls in Thane district of Maharashtra were arrested over a Facebook post criticising the Mumbai bandh for the funeral of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. The Superintendent of Police of the Thane district and a sub-inspector of Palghar police station were suspended on Tuesday, but charges...
07:23 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Mumbai: A week after two girls in Thane district of Maharashtra were arrested over a Facebook post criticising the Mumbai bandh for the funeral of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, the state administration has finally taken some action. In a major step, the Superintendent of Police of the Thane district and a sub-inspector of Palghar police station were suspended on Tuesday, but charges against the girls were not dropped. This...
06:37 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Mumbai: Mere demand of some article of an insignificant nature on a stray occasion by a husband from his wife does not amount to cruelty or harassment, the Bombay High Court has held while acquitting a man accused of abetting his wife's murder. "Harassment contemplated under Section 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code has to be of a persistent nature and is required to be in relation with an article...
05:03 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Mumbai: Observing that a step mother is entitled to receive maintenance from her step sons, the Bombay High Court has upheld a lower court order asking two brothers to pay maintenance to their step mother. The ruling was delivered by Justice TV Nalawade of Aurangabad bench of the High Court which dismissed the plea of brothers Dr Ravikumar and Shrinivas Chetlawar, who challenged the order of a Judicial Magistrate First...
12:49 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Mumbai: Taking suo moto cognizance of a woman's mysterious disappearance from a remand home in the city, the Bombay High Court on Monday formed a seven-member panel to investigate the matter. According to reports the woman was being raped on gunpoint by a man inside the remand home in Mumbai and she disappeared a few days ago. The Bombay High Court formed the panel and made Dr Asha Vajpayee its...
03:04 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Mumbai: In fresh trouble for Kripashankar Singh, the Bombay High Court on Thursday ordered a magistrate inquiry against the former Mumbai Congress chief following a petition by a city-based social worker, who has accused the leader of threatening him after usurping his properties. A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and PD Kode was hearing the petition filed by one Tulsidas Nair alleging that Kripashankar and his son had usurped...
09:07 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that a divorced father is entitled to have access to his child, if not physically, at least through e-mail, chatting, telephone or through any other electronic media. Justice Roshan Dalvi of the High Court also set aside an order of March 27 this year passed by a Pune Family Court rejecting plea of Gary Sewell, father, to have access to his child in...
12:51 PM, Oct 24, 2012
The ruling made official the termination of the cash-strapped IPL franchise after the High Court quashed the arbitrator's order for a status quo. ...
12:35 PM, Oct 18, 2012
The franchise failed to furnish a bank guarantee of Rs 100 crore told by the Bombay High Court, leaving the court with no choice but to uphold the BCCI's termination. ...
03:49 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Mumbai: Observing that politicians like Raj Thackeray do not deserve any importance, the Bombay High Court on Monday refused to hear a contempt petition filed against the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief while hinting that media make such leaders big by giving them publicity. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar was hearing a petition filed by lawyer Ejaz Naqvi seeking initiation of contempt action...
06:31 PM, Oct 01, 2012
The Hyderabad-based franchise has been ordered to bear all costs of the team for the upcoming season. ...
03:52 PM, Oct 01, 2012
The Bombay High Court has asked Deccan to deposit a bank guarantee of Rs 100 crore in ten days, failing which the termination will stand. ...
04:44 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Mohammed Ateeq, one of the 23 accused arrested by Mumbai Crime Branch on charges of sending threat e-mails to a TV news channel claiming responsibility for the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts. The bail was granted on Monday by Justice AM Thipsay on the ground that the accused was in custody since last four years and the trial had not yet commenced. Ateeq...
03:09 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Bombay: The Bombay High Court will on Monday hear a writ petition seeking a ban on the 'anti-Islam' film that is at the centre of a huge controversy currently. The film, 'Innocence of Muslims' by US director Sam Bacile purportedly shows Islam in bad light. The movie, that went viral on the Internet, sparked violent protests in the Middle East and Asia, with Pakistan and some parts of India witnessing...
09:46 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday confirmed the death sentence for the two convicts in the rape and murder case of a BPO employee in Pune. The 22-year-old BPO employee was raped and murdered in 2007. The victim was raped and killed in November 2007. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on the outskirts of Pune a day later. The driver of her office cab,...
05:13 PM, Sep 17, 2012
The Deccan counsel has requested for more time to go through the affidavit to prepare for the hearing. ...
11:54 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Mumbai: In a major victory for the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Saturday upheld its decision to ban tobacco flavoured gutka and pan masala in the state from July 19. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar, while hearing petitions by gutka and pan masala makers challenging the ban, also ruled that the products qualified as food under the Food Safety and Standards...
07:50 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Mumbai: Hours after refusing to take the bail granted by the Bombay High Court, cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, arrested on the charges of mocking Parliament and the National Emblem, on Tuesday evening said that he would accept it and execute the bond on Wednesday. The cartoonist said, "I respect judiciary, will execute the bail bond tomorrow." This came hours after the cartoonist was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on...
10:00 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Mumbai: Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, arrested on the charges of mocking Parliament and the National Emblem, has been granted bail by the Bombay High Court on a personal bond of Rs 5,000. But Aseem Trivedi told the court that he was not taking the bail as the sedition charge under Indian Penal Code Section 124 (A) against him had not yet been dropped. Aseem Trivedi had made it clear on Monday...
06:10 PM, Sep 11, 2012
