Mumbai: The Bombay High Court came down heavily on Anna Hazare and his team, who had sought permission to use the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai for his fast, saying that the court "cannot allow parallel canvassing when Parliament is seized with a debate on the Lokpal Bill". "Wouldn't your stir interfere with the functioning of Parliament?" the two-judge division bench of justices PB Majmudar and Mridula Bhatkar asked Team Anna....
01:49 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected Emile Jerome's bail plea in the Neeraj Grover murder case. The court on December 14 heard the bail plea of Jerome, who was convicted in the case. In July this year, Jerome was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for murdering executive Neeraj Grover, while the other convict, his ex-girlfriend and Kannada actress Maria Susairaj was let-off after serving a three-year sentence....
12:06 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the bail application of Emile Jerome on Tuesday in the Neeraj Grover murder case. The court on December 14 heard the bail plea of Jerome, who was convicted in the case. In July this year, Jerome was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for murdering executive Neeraj Grover, while the other convict, his ex-girlfriend and Kannada actress Maria...
10:27 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the bail application of naval officer Emile Jerome in Neeraj Grover murder case. Earlier on Wednesday, observing that there was circumstantial evidence against Emile Jerome, convicted in the Neeraj Grover murder case, the Bombay High Court said it was not inclined to grant him bail. "We are not inclined to grant bail. There is circumstantial evidence. But...
08:37 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Mumbai: Observing that there was circumstantial evidence against naval officer Emile Jerome, convicted in the Neeraj Grover murder case, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it was not inclined to grant him bail. "We are not inclined to grant bail. There is circumstantial evidence. But we can expedite the hearing of the appeal filed by Jerome against the conviction," a division bench of Justices VM Kanade and ML Tahalayani...
06:20 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday will hear the bail plea of Emile Jerome who was convicted in the Neeraj Grover murder case. In July this year, Jerome was sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment while the other convict, his ex-girlfriend Kannada actress Maria Susairaj was let-off after serving a three-year sentence. According to the prosecution, Neeraj Grover was stabbed to death by Jerome and Susairaj at her...
08:31 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will decide on January 31 whether the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has the jurisdiction to decide on the petitions filed by and against the Lavasa Corporation Limited. While the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest said that the tribunal can decide the issue, Lavasa was of the opinion that it was too late to place the matter before the NGT. "All the reliefs sought by...
12:14 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Eight years after the twin blasts that left 57 people dead at the Mumbai's Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar, the Bombay HIgh Court on Monday is expected to give its judgment on the fate of the three accused. Earlier the court had reserved its order on whether to confirm the death sentence handed out in 2009 to the accused. The judgment expected on whether the death sentence...
06:09 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to give its ruling on Monday on confirmation of death sentence, awarded to three convicts including a woman, in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. Ashrat Ansari (32), his aide Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were held guilty on charges of planting powerful bombs in two taxis which exploded at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on...
07:11 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Mumbai: The Neeraj Grover murder case is slated to come up in the Bombay High Court on Thursday. The High Court will be hearing prime accused Emile Jerome Matthew's bail plea. Matthew had been sentenced to three years for destruction of evidence and 10 years for the murder. However, Maria Susairaj, his accomplice, has already been released from jail. Susairaj, 27, and her boyfriend Navy officer Sub Lieutenant Emile Jerome...
08:35 AM, Dec 08, 2011
Mumbai: In a shocking reality, a recent Maharashtra state committee report has shown how mentally challenged children are neglected and raped at the homes meant to take care. A quiet home tucked away in Panvel in Navi Mumbai caused a furore earlier in 2011 when five mentally challenged girls were rescued after being allegedly raped by their caretakers. A Bombay High Court-appointed state committee for child protection, which in a...
08:45 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on December 12 pronounce its judgement on confirmation of death sentence awarded to three LeT activists in the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts that claimed 52 lives. The arguments concluded at a special hearing by a division bench of Justices AM Khanvilkar and PD Kode on Saturday after which the court reserved its verdict. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida...
08:54 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Mumbai: Lavasa, India's first planned hill city, being built in Maharshtra's Pune district, is now one step closer to reality. The Union Environment Ministry on Wednesday gave conditional clearance to the project. The Lavasa township got the clearance to the Environment Ministry, subject to additional conditions, after several months of being mired in controversy. It's a project that has seen many legal twists and turns in the last two years....
07:44 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court adjourned the hearing of the writ petition against national carrier Indian Airlines on Wednesday after the airline's counsel said that the training programme for pilots would be deferred for a month. Meanwhile, negotiations are still between the management and the striking pilots. Air India Pilots belonging to the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) have been on strike and over 100 have threatened to resign citing discriminatory...
12:39 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Nagpur: The Bombay High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Attorney General over the decision to impose 100 SMS per day limit. The notice was issued by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court. TRAI, mobile service providers and the Attorney General have been asked to reply to the High Court within two days. The court served the notice on...
02:57 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Mumbai: Income-Tax department has initiated inquiry against 57 members of the Adarsh Housing Society, including relatives of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, regarding their source of funds through which flats were purchased in the scam-tainted building in south Mumbai. Stating that its investigations are complete, Income Tax informed the Bombay High Court that inquiry had been initiated in 57 cases and notices were issued to those persons. "Out of...
12:39 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Mumbai: A case was on Monday filed against Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy in Mumbai. The case was filed under Section 153 (A) of the Indian Penal Code at the Vakola police station in Mumbai. Swamy had written an inflammatory article in a newspaper a couple of months ago. The case was registered after the directives of the Bombay High Court. ...
10:55 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a PIL, which sought replacement of word 'Sindh' with 'Sindhu' in the National Anthem. Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Roshan Dalvi dismissed the petition, saying that the apex court had already dealt with the issue. The PIL, filed by retired professor Shreekant Malushte, had claimed that when the anthem was composed in 1917, 'Sindh' was a part of India, which is...
07:01 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Mumbai: Giving a last chance, Bombay High Court (HC) on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to pass the final order on regularisation application of the Lavasa Corporation, with regard to constructions at township project near Pune, in three weeks. "The union ministry has been given time for long to pass order and today again it has sought three weeks' time. Considering the gravity and public...
06:56 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Mumbai: It seems to be a long wait for the two lawyers of Mumbai terror attack's lone surviving gunman Ajmal Kasab to get their legal fees. Amin Solkar and Farhana Shah had argued for Kasab in the Bombay High Court against his death sentence almost on a day-to-day basis for nearly nine months. They were nominated by the High Court. But the two claimed that the legal aid cell of...
05:22 PM, Sep 12, 2011
