Bombay

Mumbai/Nagpur: Threat emails warning of bomb explosions were received by the Bombay high court, several local courts, and banks across Mumbai and Nagpur on Thursday morning, causing panic and paralysing legal proceedings. Police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads (BDDS) conducted extensive sweeps at all the locations, before declaring the threats as hoax as no explosives were found.As per...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday permitted Delhi-based journalist and activist Gautam Navlakha to move back to his residence in Delhi until the framing of charge proceedings begin in the 2018 Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case. This permission comes with certain conditions, including that he cannot leave the capital without prior permission and must visit the Kalkaji police station every...

Mumbai: A woman, on behalf of her seven-year-old autistic twins, has moved the Bombay high court challenging the refusal by an Andheri West school to admit them under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act.Rita Joshi, an advocate practising in the HC, has challenged the school's "unlawful and discriminatory" refusal to admit and integrate her twin sons despite their duly...

Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, while hearing Pune-based real estate businesswoman Sheetal Tejwani’s pre-arrest bail plea in a second FIR against her in the controversial Pune land deal case, orally remarked that the Maharashtra deputy chief minister’s son is not named and asked if he was being protected while police were investigating others.The Economic...

Mumbai: A mandate in law to conduct an investigation and file a chargesheet must be respected by court but, at the same time, the investigating agency cannot be permitted to act in a manner which frustrates the mandate under Article 21 of the Constitution for right to life and liberty, said the Bombay high court on Tuesday. The HC made the observation while dismissing the state's plea to permit the...

Mumbai: Upholding compensation granted by a railway claims tribunal to the family of a man who died due due to falling from a Mumbai suburban train two decades ago, Bombay high court said there was no negligence on his part."If a person has to travel for his work and it is very difficult to enter inside the compartment, the passenger has no choice, but to risk his life by standing near the door. This...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday modified its 2015 order and prevented the ouster of close to 1,300 slum dwellers from an over six acre slum sprawl on land belonging to the Thane Mental hospital. The relief to the slum dwellers is subject the state paying a Rs 42 crore premium to the Mental Hospital as entailed under redevelopment schemes of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) directed a...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday told the state government it cannot escape its responsibility by citing the burden of patients coming to its hospitals while hearing a suo motu PIL following deaths in two state-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar."You can't escape by saying there is a burden of patients coming in. You are the State. You can't shift responsibility to private...

KALYAN: Hearing a PIL filed by an activist on ongoing illegal construction on government and private lands in Kalyan, the Bombay High Court has directed Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to demolish the unauthorised construction in Kalyan especially on Kalyan-Haji Malang road and also directed KDMC commissioner to personally look into it.The HC has also asked KDMC to initiate disciplinary...

MUMBAI: Holding that recovery of drugs from two persons though travelling together, should be considered separately, Bombay high court did not accept the state’s criminal conspiracy case and granted bail to an individual caught with intermediate amounts of Ganja.The HC's single judge bench of Justice Shivkumar Dige did not accept the state’s anti-narcotic cell case that together the amount found in...