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...
02:13 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: As Maharashtra struggles to curb the sale of tobacco products near schools, surveys done by the NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation throw up some disturbing statistics. 1 in 4 children at Mumbai's municipal schools use some form of tobacco. Another survey of 200 schools, finds 61 per cent of them have tobacco shops within 100 yards of their premises. This is despite the BMC banning such sales two months ago...
08:50 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on Wednesday hear a public suit against the recent hike in petrol prices. Acting on the suit filed on Monday by Rajendra Phanse, the court issued notice to the central government, the petroleum and natural gas and finance ministries and three oil marketing companies. Phanse's petition claimed that the recent hike in petrol prices is "illegal" as it did not have parliament's approval and...
10:30 PM, May 28, 2012
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...
04:56 PM, May 25, 2012
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...
07:10 AM, May 23, 2012
After the celebrated success of 'Traffic' last year, many new films tried to repeat the magic by resorting to multiple stories. But much of them including 'City of God' Bombay and March 12, failed to repeat the success that Traffic had attained. But the technique finds new takers in many new generation films in the making, the latest being 'Friday'. The movie will tell the life stories of many people...
04:00 PM, May 18, 2012
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...
04:57 PM, May 14, 2012
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...
09:52 AM, May 13, 2012
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...
10:21 PM, May 08, 2012
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...
07:37 PM, May 08, 2012
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...
08:06 AM, May 08, 2012
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...
09:40 PM, May 07, 2012
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...
07:06 PM, May 07, 2012
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...
04:47 PM, May 07, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
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