MUMBAI: In compliance with a November 7 Supreme Court directive mandating the removal of stray dogs from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus depots and railway stations, BMC has initiated an AI-based pilot project to survey and geotag stray dogs across critical public locations in the city.The civic body has partnered with a start-up, Indicare AI, which has been...
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...
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...
CHENNAI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the Madras high court that undertrials, preventive detainees, and inmates serving a short period of imprisonment could submit the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms through their immediate relatives or enrol afresh to feature in the revised electoral roll.The reply was in connection with a petition filed by a Madurai-based individual...
Gaurav (L) and Saurabh Luthra PANAJI: The owners of Goa nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane, where 25 people were killed in a fire on Saturday night, approached a Delhi court on Wednesday seeking four weeks’ transit anticipatory bail, claiming they are currently in Thailand on a business trip. The Rohini district and sessions court did not grant interim relief and listed the matter for hearing on...
The Supreme Court questioned Delhi Police on invoking stringent UAPA provisions against riot accused for speeches, seeking justification for linking terror acts to their words. Justices sought clarity on how Section 15, pertaining to terrorist acts, applies when arms weren't directly used by the accused, who have been jailed for over five years. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court questioned Delhi Police...
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has termed the police investigation in a case of mob attack during the 2020 North East Delhi riots as "poor," but has also refused the plea of a gunshot victim to probe his case as a standalone offence.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna recently said that it was "evident" the investigation in FIR No 64/2020 was "selective and poor". However, complainant Mohammad Nasir's grievance...
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...
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