Bombay High Court
Kangana Ranaut Has Agreed To Cuts Suggested By Revising Committee: CBFC Informs Bombay High Court On Emergency Film's Release
The Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) on Monday informed the Bombay High Court that Kangana Ranaut, the producer and lead actor in the controversial film "Emergency", has agreed to the cuts/changes as suggested by the Censor Board's revising committee.A division bench of Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla has been hearing a petition filed by Zee Studios, the...
Capital Asset Financed By Foreign Currency Loan Can Be Capitalized U/s 43A If Such Asset Was Imported From Abroad: Bombay High Court
While explaining that Section 43A is a non-obstante provision, which positively imposes an obligation notwithstanding anything contained in the Income tax Act, the Bombay High Court held that losses due to exchange rate changes on a foreign currency loan taken for import of a capital asset must not be treated as revenue expenditure.Section 43A of Income tax Act requires companies to...
Art.4(8) Law Of Divorce | Wife Refusing To Live With Husband And His Paramour Doesn't Mean She "Freely Consented" To Separation: Bombay HC
A husband insisting a wife to live in the house where he lives with his paramour is a good enough reason for her to stay separately and this 'separation' cannot be regarded as the wife's 'free consent' to separation, to afford a ground to the husband to seek divorce under the Law of Divorce (Divorce Act, 1910), ruled the Bombay High Court at Goa, recently.Single-judge Justice Makarand...
Scheduled Commercial Bank Had Utilized Opening Balance In Bad Debts Account To Reduce Total Bad Debts Written Off: Bombay HC Allows Benefit Of Sec 36(1)(Vii)
The Bombay High Court held that deduction claimed by bank u/s 36(1)(vii) in respect of write off bad debts is allowable without any adjustment to the credit balance in the provision for bad and doubtful debts u/s 36(1)(viia) which was adjusted with the bad debts claimed in the subsequent AY.The High Court held so after finding that the taxpayer had utilized the opening balance in the “bad...
Minor Girl If Subjected To Rape Will Be Terrified, Won't Act Normal: Bombay High Court Acquits Man In POCSO Case
A minor girl subjected to sexual assault would normally be 'terrified' and not 'act normal and play', the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court observed recently while acquitting a 64-year-old man convicted for sexually assaulting a minor girl.Single-judge Justice Govind Sanap noted from the testimony of the girl's mother that the girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by the applicant in a...
Will Soon Identify 'Secluded Place' For Burial Of Badlapur Encounter Deceased: Maharashtra Police Tells Bombay High Court
The Maharashtra Police on Friday informed the Bombay High Court that it will be soon identifying a 'secluded' place for burying the dead body of the accused in the Badlapur minors' sexual assault case, who was shot down by the Thane Police in an alleged 'fake' encounter on September 24. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Milind Sathaye was irked to know that the police...
Bombay High Court Denies Foreign Travel Permission To Indrani Mukherjea, Allows CBI's Plea
The Bombay High Court today refused permission to Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in the high profile murder case of Sheena Bora, to travel to Spain and the United Kingdom (UK).Single-judge Justice Shyam Chandak pronounced the verdict on a plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the order of a special court, which permitted Indrani to travel abroad for...
Not Every Forward Can Be Interpreted For Creating Rift In Society; People Should Restrain From Forwarding Everything They Receive: Bombay HC
In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court recently held that each forward of an objectionable post on WhatsApp or any other social media platform, cannot be interpreted to have been done to create unrest in the society or two groups of people.The observation were made while quashing a First Information Report (FIR) lodged against a man, booked for forwarding an objectionable post against...
Inadvertent Error Selecting Wrong Option In Application Form: Bombay High Court Directs Admission Of Disabled Candidate To MBBS Course
The Bombay High Court has directed a Government Medical College in Maharashtra to admit a candidate with disabilities to its MBBS course, who had inadvertently selected the 'no' option in the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) column of the online application form and as a result was not examined for his disability status.The petitioner who suffers from a locomotor disability to the extent of...
Bombay High Court Quashes State Minorities Commission's Notice To HDFC Bank On Complaint Of Jain Community Member Alleging Harassment
The Bombay High Court has quashed a show-cause notice issued by the Maharashtra State Minorities Commission to the HDFC Bank about a complaint raised by a member of the Jain community alleging harassment by the bank, on the ground that the Commission has no jurisdiction to entertain the complaint.The Court stated that the complaint was an attempt to 'short-circuit' the procedure adopted the...
"Revising Committee Suggested Some More Cuts To Makers": CBFC Tells Bombay High Court On Release Of Kangana Ranaut Starrer 'Emergency'
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that its revising committee has suggested some cuts to the makers of the controversial film "Emergency" and only then the film starring BJP lawmaker Kangana Ranaut, can be released.However, Zee Studios, the co-producer of the film, urged the division bench of Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Firdosh...
Breaking | Bombay High Court Allows Kunal Kamra's Plea, Strikes Down 2023 Amendment To IT Rules On 'Fact Check Units'
After receiving the 'opinion' of "tie-breaker" Judge, the Bombay High Court division bench today declared amendment to the IT Rules, 2021, "unconstitutional" and struck down the said amendment, which allowed the Central government to establish Fact Check Units (FCUs) to identify "fake and false" information about its business, being circulated on digital platforms. The bench of Justices...