Plea

Mumbai: The Bombay high court Friday granted permission to BMC for a proposed Coastal Road North—a 26.3 km Versova–Bhayander DP (Development Plan) Road project—that would require a maximum of 45,000-odd mangroves to be felled. The HC was hearing BMC's plea for the court's approval for the project since it impacts mangroves. Accepting as salutary a suggestion made by senior counsel Aspi Chinoy...

NEW DELHI: The choice is between an artificially sustained painful life and peaceful death. As a medical board of four specialised doctors told Supreme Court about the condition of 31-year-old Harish Rana who has been living with 100% disability in a permanent vegetative state for 13 years and stressed the negligible chance of his recovery, the court Thursday decided to set in motion the next stage of...

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 victim's wife has opposed dismissed RPF constable and quadruple murder accused Chetan Singh's plea of unsound mind, arguing that his mental state was contradicted by his cold-blooded, selective targeting of three minority passengers whom he identified by their attire in different bogies. Calling him a terrorist-minded individual, the plea submitted by Umesa Khatoon, wife of victim Asgar...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's stand on a plea to permit the mother of a woman from Kerala, who is facing the death penalty in Yemenfor the murder of a national, to travel to the country to save her daughter from gallows. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The...

CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday reserved its order on the bail application moved by Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji. The minister was arrested on June 14 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged offence of money laundering under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Concluding the final hearing, Justice G Jayachandran reserved his orders. According to the minister,...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is set to hear the bail plea of former Delhi minister Satyendar Kumar Jain in a money laundering case on Monday, October 9.A bench comprising Justice A S Bopanna and Justice Bela M Trivedi will continue the hearing of the petition filed by Satyendar Jain and his co-accused, Ankush Jain.Previously, on September 25, the Supreme Court extended Satyendar Jain's interim bail...

CHENNAI: Sanatan Dharma includes "a whole set of eternal duties" and "free speech cannot be hate speech", the Madras high court has said on a petition against a college which sought students' views on 'Opposition to Sanatan'. The court was told the circular seeking views has since been withdrawn. Justice N Seshasayee also referred to untouchability, saying it is unconstitutional "within or outside...

NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Thursday dismissed a bail plea of Delhi's former cabinet minister Satyendar Jain in the money laundering case.The court also dismissed the bail pleas of co-accused Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain in the case.Jain was arrested on May 30 last year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He is accused of having laundered money through four companies allegedly linked to him.The high...

NEW DELHI: Chronology of the bail plea of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the Delhi excise policy scam case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI):00:28Excise policy case: Delhi court dismisses Manish Sisodia’s bail pleaFebruary 26: CBI arrests Sisodia in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy...