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...
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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...
MUMBAI: Seven people were trapped in an elevator in the Bombay High Court building on Monday, a fire brigade official said. The fire brigade received an alert about people being trapped in one of the elevators in the high court premises around 4.30 pm, he said. However, staff from the lift maintenance company managed to rescue all the seven people within 15-20 minutes, the official said.(With PTI...
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday stayed the investigation in a first information report (FIR) against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Maharashtra president Preeti Sharma Menon and a functionary under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.Justices Sunil Shukre and Milind Sathaye granted interim relief to Menon, who is also a member of AAP's national executive, and...