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  Cancellation of board exams a policy matter; can court interfere? asks Bombay HC

  India | June 03, 2021 15:21 IST

  The court asked that at a time when gatherings are being avoided due to the coronavirus situation, is it right to make children assemble at one place to take the exams.

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  If vaccine drives can be held in housing societies, why not at homes for senior citizens? Bombay HC

  India | June 02, 2021 16:12 IST

  The court was hearing a PIL filed by lawyers Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari, seeking a direction to Union and state govts to start door-to-door vaccination for senior citizens above the age of 75, specially-abled, bed-ridden and wheelchair-bound people.

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  Elgar case: Bombay HC asks Maharashtra to move Stan Swamy to private hospital

  India | May 28, 2021 14:34 IST

  The Bombay high court on Friday directed the jail authorities in Maharashtra to shift Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, from the Taloja prison to a private hospital in Mumbai for treatment for two weeks.

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  Mucormycosis patients to be treated free of cost under health schemes: Maha govt to HC

  India | May 24, 2021 14:23 IST

  The government said anti-fungal medicines required for treating mucormycosis will be provided free of cost to patients admitted in these hospitals and private hospitals will also be restrained from "raising astronomical bills".

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  How celebrities, politicians getting COVID-19 drugs, oxygen, Bombay HC asks

  India | May 19, 2021 18:40 IST

  A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni had asked for such details last week as well from  the Maharashtra government and the Centre, who faced flak during hearing for non-compliance of previous orders.  

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  Elgar case: HC notice to NIA on medical bail plea of Stan Swamy

  India | May 04, 2021 14:58 IST

  The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file a reply to the medical bail plea of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar-Parishad Maoist links case.

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  Anil Deshmukh moves Bombay HC for quashing of CBI FIR

  India | May 04, 2021 0:25 IST

  Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking to quash the FIR registered against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation on the charges of corruption.

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  Is it time to consider lockdown like last year? Bombay HC to Maharashtra govt

  India | April 29, 2021 17:39 IST

  A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni asked Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni if the state believed its current restrictions on the movement of citizens were working.  

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  Bombay HC refuses to nod for mass prayers in mosque during Ramadan

  India | April 14, 2021 14:30 IST

  A vacation bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and V G Bisht noted that the Maharashtra government found it expedient to impose restrictions to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus.

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  Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigns; BJP questions Uddhav Thackeray's silence over the case

  News | April 05, 2021 16:09 IST

  Param Bir Singh had earlier this month moved the HC demanding an 'immediate and unbiased' probe against Deshmukh, who he claimed asked police officer Sachin Waze to collect Rs 100 crore from bars and restaurants.

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  Param Bir Singh Case: Bombay HC orders CBI probe on charges against Home Minister Anil Deshmukh

  News | April 05, 2021 12:00 IST

  The Bombay High Court has ordered a CBI inquiry into the charges against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh based on the petition filed by lawyer Jayshri Patil.

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  'Are you above the law...': Bombay HC rebukes Param Bir Singh

  India | March 31, 2021 15:42 IST

  The high court questioned Param Bir Singh why he didn't approach the police and filed an FIR against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

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  'Approach Bombay HC': SC refuses to entertain Param Bir Singh's plea challenging his transfer

  India | March 24, 2021 14:20 IST

  A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy asked Mukul Rohatgi, representing Param Bir Singh, to approach the high court in the matter.

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  Ambani Bomb Scare: Fadnavis attacks Maharashtra govt, says politics in Mumbai has been criminalized

  News | March 17, 2021 19:13 IST

  Devendra Fadnavis said that reinstatement of suspended API Sachin Vaze into the police force last year was a violation of a Bombay High Court order. After the change of government, the Sena reinstated Vaza citing manpower shortage during the Covid 19 pandemic, Fadnavis said.

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  SC to hear Sonu Sood's plea against Bombay HC order today

  Entertainment | February 05, 2021 7:33 IST

  The Supreme Court will today hear a plea filed by Bollywood actor Sonu Sood against a Bombay High Court order which dismissed his plea challenging a civic body notice over alleged illegal construction at his residential building in Juhu.

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  Holding girl's hands, unzipping pants 'no' sexual assault under POCSO: Bombay HC

  India | January 28, 2021 15:03 IST

  The observation was made by a single bench of Justice Pushpa Ganediwala on January 15 while passing an order on an appeal filed by a 50-year-old man challenging a sessions court''s order convicting him for sexually assaulting and molesting a five-year-old girl.

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  Skin to Skin contact: Supreme Court stays Bombay HC order acquitting man under POCSO

  India | January 27, 2021 14:19 IST

  On January 19, the high court had said that groping a minor's breast without "skin to skin contact" cannot be termed as sexual assault as defined under the POCSO Act.

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  Bombay HC judgement on sexual assault 'obnoxious, unacceptable, outrageous': Activists

  India | January 25, 2021 16:25 IST

  Activists and child rights bodies have slammed the recent judgement of the Bombay High Court that there is no sexual assault if there is no 'skin-to-skin' contact. 

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  Setback for Maharashtra govt as Bombay High Court stays metro car shed project

  India | December 16, 2020 14:03 IST

  The Union government had filed a petition in the high court challenging the October 1, 2020, order passed by the Collector, allotting the land for construction of the car shed, and said the land belongs to its (the Centre) salt department.

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  Bombay HC quashes BMC's demolition order of Kangana Ranaut's property

  Celebrities | November 28, 2020 7:11 IST

  Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut has finally got justice in the demolition row with BMC. The Bombay High Court has set aside BMC notices to the actress issued on 7th and 9th September, calling the demolition at her place as "action with malafide inte