In a significant judgment dated February 29, the Bombay High Court, through a division bench consisting of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sandeep Marne, has ruled that complaints filed by working journalists under the Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act before an industrial court are not Continue Reading
In a landmark decision on Tuesday, the Bombay High Court acquitted former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others in the Maoist link case, overturning the 2017 conviction by a Nagpur sessions court. The bench, comprising justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes, found the prosecution unable to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, […]Continue Reading
The Bombay High Court has declared the arrest of former ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the ICICI-Videocon loan fraud case as illegal, criticizing the move as “without application of mind and due regard to the law,” and amounting to an […]Continue Reading
In a significant decision, the Bombay High Court annulled the adoption of a minor boy following the adoptive parents’ admission of failing to establish an emotional bond with him. Justice R I Chagla, presiding over the case, rendered the judgement last month after the Bal Asha Trust petitioned the court. The adoptive parents had approached […]Continue Reading
In a significant development, the Bombay High Court has taken a crucial step in the ongoing political tussle within the Maharashtra government. The court issued a notice to Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar and the 14 MLAs of the Uddhav Thackeray-led group in response to petitions filed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. These petitions […]Continue Reading
The Bombay High Court affirmed a family court judgement dissolving the marriage of a Pune-based couple, declaring that labelling the husband a womaniser and an alcoholic without providing evidence amounts to cruelty. On October 12, a division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sharmila Deshmukh dismissed an appeal brought by a 50-year-old lady who was […]Continue Reading
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, said to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today that “the whole country is seeing the difference between your words and deeds” in reference to the release of 11 life-sentenced inmates who were convicted of raping Bilkis Bano and killing her family members during the Gujarat riots in 2002. During […]Continue Reading
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held that divorced parents are equally responsible for the education of their children. The High Court said this in a complaint filed by a student alleging that Dhanbad was facing financial difficulties to join IITs. The court rejected the father’s claim that he could not find […]Continue Reading
While hearing the plea seeking a CBI investigation into the infamous ‘Gurugram kid murder’ case, the country’s top court, the Supreme Court of India, has voluntarily announced that it is going to examine that are the schools following the safety guidelines directed by the authorities. A couple of days before, a kid studying in class […]Continue Reading
While hearing a PIL petition filed by the renowned social activist, Anna Hazare, over the alleged sugar scam in which the government lost nearly twenty-five thousand crores, the Bombay High Court advised the petitioner to approach the police department and file a complaint. Reminding the provision that insists the petitioner to approach the police department […]Continue Reading