Bombay High Court
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Scarlett Keeling death case: Trial court order based on surmises, says Bombay HC
India | Jul 22, 2019, 05:25 PM ISTConvicting a beach shack worker in the 2008 Scarlett Keeling death case, the Bombay High Court said the lower court's order acquitting him was based on "surmises and conjectures" and was "miscarriage of justice".
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Mumbai: High Court quashes CRZ clearances to Rs 14,000 crore coastal road project
India | Jul 16, 2019, 12:34 PM ISTA division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice N M Jamdar quashed the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearances while allowing a bunch of petitions filed by activists, residents and fishermen from the city challenging the project. "We are quashing the CRZ clearances granted to the project. We have held that the environment clearance is required for the project," the bench said. BMC's counsel Darius Khambata sought a stay of the order to appeal in the Supreme Court. The request was, however, refused by the high court.
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Bombay High Court upholds Maratha reservation given by Maharashtra government
News | Jun 27, 2019, 04:12 PM ISTBombay High Court upholds Maratha reservation given by Maharashtra govt. A petition had challenged its constitutional validity.
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Bombay High Court to pronounce verdict on petitions challenging Maratha reservation today
India | Jun 27, 2019, 08:25 AM ISTThe petitioners argued that the government has destroyed the concept of equality by setting up a special category - Socially and Educationally Backward Class - for the Maratha community.
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Gujarat High Court seeks probe report from state government on Surat fire tragedy
India | Jun 13, 2019, 02:23 PM ISTThe Gujarat High Court has sought a detailed report from the state government on the investigation into the Surat fire tragedy that claimed lives of 22 students of a coaching institute last month.
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Illegal purchase of govt land: Supreme Court to hear Maharashtra MLC's plea tomorrow
India | Jun 13, 2019, 01:29 PM ISTThe Bombay high court's order was passed against Dhananjay Munde on June 11 by a division bench on a plea filed by one Rajabhau Phad, who alleged that the said land which belonged to the government was purchased and given to the Belkhandi Math by Munde in Beed as a gift.
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'Justified': Bombay HC upholds death for repeat rape offenders
India | Jun 03, 2019, 11:36 PM ISTIn a significant order, the Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of the Indian Penal Code's section providing for either life sentence or death penalty for repeat rape offences.
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Bombay High Court upholds death penalty clause for repeat offenders in rape cases
India | Jun 03, 2019, 12:49 PM ISTUnder an amendment to section 376 (e) of the IPC, repeat offenders in rape cases faced life imprisonment or a death penalty. The amendment was made after the gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi in 2012.
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Bombay HC refuses to vacate stay imposed on BMC's Tree Authority
India | May 15, 2019, 07:12 PM ISTThe Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused the BMC's plea to vacate a stay imposed on the working of Mumbai civic body's Tree Authority that has the power to approve cutting of trees for development projects or repair and upgradation work.
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Bombay HC quashes rape FIR after victim, accused get married
India | May 10, 2019, 05:08 PM ISTThe Bombay High Court has quashed an FIR in a case of rape here after the victim submitted that she and the accused were now married and were residing together "happily".
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Court martial fear, not sting video likely reason for jawan's suicide: Bombay High Court
India | May 06, 2019, 07:44 PM ISTThe apprehension of court martial and not a sting video might have led to an Indian Army jawan's suicide, the Bombay High Court said quashing a criminal case lodged against a senior journalist and a retired soldier accused of abetting it.
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BMC gets rap on knuckles, lesson in ecosystem from Bombay High Court
India | Apr 30, 2019, 04:43 PM ISTThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday invited the ire of the Bombay High Court and also received a lesson on the ecosystem from the court over a plea alleging unauthorised tree cutting.
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Declaring me fugitive offender is like giving economic death penalty: Mallya tells Bombay HC
India | Apr 24, 2019, 05:32 PM ISTEmbattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya told the Bombay High Court Wednesday that by declaring him a fugitive economic offender and allowing attachment of his assets, a special court had awarded him an "economic death penalty".
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Bombay High Court's new CJ to take charge on Sunday
India | Apr 05, 2019, 01:24 PM ISTHe was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court in December 2002 and in April 2017, was appointed the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.
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Bombay HC issues notice to ECI on PIL seeking stay on Narendra Modi's biopic
India | Mar 29, 2019, 01:29 PM ISTThe Bombay High Court Friday issued a notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) over a PIL seeking a stay on the release of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic starring Vivek Oberoi.
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HC issues notices to Congress, BSP, Shiv Sena for putting up illegal hoardings, banners
India | Mar 01, 2019, 06:48 PM ISTThe Bombay High Court on Friday issued show cause notices to the Congress, the BSP and the Shiv Sena, asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for putting up illegal hoardings and banners across Maharashtra.
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Pre-verification process for political ads being put in place: FB, Google tell Bombay HC
India | Feb 18, 2019, 09:58 PM ISTThe Internet giants said while they already had a system to check paid content, they have now voluntarily decided to augment these checks to weed out online fake news and malafide political advertisements in the poll season.
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Notices issued to Parrikar's son Abhijat over alleged destruction of forest areas for eco-resort construction
India | Feb 12, 2019, 02:37 PM ISTOn February 4, Abhijit Dessai, deputy sarpanch of the Netravali panchyat, had filed a petition seeking a stay on the construction of the resort near the Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary in South Goa.
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High Court notice to Election Commision over PIL seeking to make VVPAT error-free
India | Feb 01, 2019, 08:24 PM ISTThe Bombay High Court issued a notice on Friday to the Election Commission of India (ECI) over a PIL seeking directions to make voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) devices more transparent and error-free.
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Bombay HC refuses to monitor EOW probe into 2015 BMC de-silting scam
India | Jan 30, 2019, 05:32 PM ISTA bench of justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre noted that the EOW had already filed chargesheets against a majority of the accused persons in the case and therefore, there was no need for the court to monitor the probe.