Bombay

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) raising concerns over the operation of ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in Kurla. The court observed that the petitioner failed to include necessary parties whose rights would be directly affected by any court order.A division bench of Justice Advait M. Sethna and Justice M.S. Sonak noted that while the petitioner, activist...

Court Gives A Month’s Time To Comply CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Hiten Venegavkar of the Bombay high court directed the Nanded district collector on Dec 12 to initiate action within one month in a case of alleged encroachment on 23 acres of govt land attached to the Nanded Sikh Gurdwara. The court warned that failure to comply would require the...

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...