Bombay High Court

Centre to reply to PIL on petrol price hike today

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...  

Improper to laugh aloud outside someone's house: HC

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...  

Adarsh scam: CBI likely to file chargesheet today

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...  

Man cleared of rape charge after 5 years

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has acquitted a 32-year-old man in a 1999 rape case observing that a woman caught in the act of consensual sex outside her wedlock might resort to levelling allegations of rape to protect her character. While clearing Yogesh Shinde of the charges after he served five-year rigorous imprisonment for raping his neighbour's wife in Ulhasnagar in neighbouring Thane district, the court said it found "improbable"...  

'Poor Parsi': One who earns up to Rs 90K a month

Mumbai: The Planning Commission may find those earning more than Rs 32 a day ineligible to qualify as poor but for Mumbai's tiny but affluent Parsi community says a "poor Parsi" is one who makes up to Rs 90,000 per month. The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) informed the Bombay High Court on Monday that it has revised the definition of a 'poor Parsi' as the one who earns up to...  

Adarsh scam: CBI submits affidavit in Bombay HC

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday submitted an affidavit on the Adarsh Housing Society scam to the Bombay High Court, saying it is thoroughly probing allegations made in a PIL against former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Cabinet Minister for Power Sushil Kumar Shinde and others. The investigative body also said that it had examined all the relevant witnesses in the case, including two former chief ministers,...  

Adarsh scam: Two more accused apply for bail

Mumbai: Days after the special CBI court granted bail to seven accused in the Adarsh Society scam, two more accused have filed their bail applications. Former city civic chief Jairaj Phatak and former state chief information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari approached the sessions court on Monday, saying the CBI has not filed the charge sheet even 60 days after their arrest. If Phatak and Tiwari are also granted bail, then all...  

Comply with court order first, HC tells AI pilots

Mumbai: Citing the inconvenience being caused to people due to their agitation, the Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Indian Pilots Guild to first comply with the Delhi High Court order restraining them from continuing their "illegal strike" before sorting out the issues with the management. "You (IPG) may have problems but first comply with the Delhi High Court order. Then you can go sort out your issues. You...  

Adarsh scam: Chavan seeks exemption as witness

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing scam. Chavan, who had to step down as the Chief Minister in November 2010 following the scam, was summoned by the Commission to appear as a witness on May 23. However, he filed an application on Tuesday before the Commission seeking exemption. The two-member commission, headed...  

Tikku-Karan murders: Gautam Vora gets bail

Mumbai: Stock broker Gautam Vora was on Monday granted bail by the Bombay High Court in the murder cases of Delhi-based businessman Arun Kumar Tikku and aspiring film producer Karan Kakkad. Vora was arrested in April for allegedly sheltering gangster Vijay Palande alias Karan Sood, the key accused in twin murders, when he escaped from police custody. The High Court granted Vora bail on a surety of Rs 30,000. The...  

'Hospitals not following diktat to admit poor patients'

Mumbai: A committee set up by the Maharashtra government to review the performance of charitable hospitals has found that a court directive to treat the poor patients is not being followed. The committee report says that on an average only 4.03 per cent of the earmarked beds are used for charity. The Bombay Hospital here has 142 beds earmarked for charity, out of the total 701. It can treat 1,065...  

A wife should be like goddess Sita: Bombay HC

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that married women should take a cue from goddess Sita, who followed her husband Lord Ram even during his exile, while hearing a divorce petition filed by a man on ground that his wife is unwilling to relocate to his new place of work. "A wife should be like goddess Sita who left everything and followed her husband Lord Ram to a...  

Bombay HC permits Navy to destroy INS Vindhyagiri

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted permission to Indian Navy to destroy a naval ship which had been grounded in the city dockyard for over a year, after its collision with MV Nordlake. Justice Roshan Dalvi was hearing an application filed by the navy, seeking permission to destroy naval ship INS Vindhyagiri on the ground that ammunition were stored in it and it would not be safe to...  

My parents had crossed the limit: Bidhan Barua

New Delhi: The Bombay High Court cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex change surgery. Bidhan had approached the court after his family threatened him against the surgery. The 21-year old spoke to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on how difficult his battle has been. Following is an excerpt from Rajdeep Sardesai's interview with Bidhan Barua: Rajdeep Sardesai: Bidhan, you virtually went against your family for this...  

Bombay HC allows Bidhan to undergo sex change

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Guwahati based Barua had approached the Bombay High Court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes after the state and the centre government told the court they had no objection to such a procedure. Last month in the petition, Bhidan, who feels...  

Bombay HC allows Bidhan Barua to change his sex

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday cleared the path for 21-year-old Bidhan Barua from Assam to undergo a sex reassignment surgery. Barua, who hails from Guwahati, had approached the Bombay high court after his family threatened him when he was in Mumbai for his operation. This comes just days after the Bombay High Court on last Thursday warned the youth against using pressure tactics and threatening to commit suicide...  

HC upholds 15 day jail term for John Abraham

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today upheld the 15-day imprisonment handed to Bollywood actor John Abraham for rash and negligent driving and injuring two persons in 2006, but released him on probation after it took a lenient view. John will not spend time in jail as the court has released him on probation under the Probation of Offenders Act. "It is the responsibility of the driver to see to it...  

Don't threaten suicide on sex change: HC to boy

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday warned Bhidan Barua, a 21-year-old student from Guwahati who wants to undergo sex change operation, that he cannot use pressure tactics and threaten to commit suicide unless his petition was heard and orders passed immediately. The court summoned Bhidan's lawyer Ejaz Naqvi after the student wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and other authorities threatening to commit...  

Man takes parents to court over sex change

Guwahati: A 21-year-old student from Guwahati who feels he is a woman trapped in man's body, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking to restrain his parents from interfering with his decision to undergo a sex change operation. Bidhan Barua, who likes to call himself Swati, has alleged that his parents had thwarted the sex reassignment surgery which was scheduled to be performed at Saifee hospital in Guwahati on April...  

No rape as minor consented to the act: Court

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has acquitted a teacher accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, observing that the girl had consented to the act. The Nagpur bench of the High Court was hearing an appeal filed by Chandrashekar Meshram against the 2004 order of the sessions court, which had held him guilty of rape and sentenced him to seven years in jail. According to the prosecution, Meshram took the girl...