Bombay High Court
Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Accused In Pune Serial Blasts Case After He Spent 11 Years In Jail Without Trial
The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to a 42-year-old tailor, booked for allegedly conspiring and executing the serial bomb blasts in Pune in August 2012 for taking revenge of the custodial death of a terrorist of the banned Indian Mujahideen outfit.A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Sharmila Deshmukh noted that the appellant Munib Memon has been in custody for around...
Bombay High Court Flags Rise In Frivolous Cases Against Doctors For 'Unjust' Compensation
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court while quashing a medical negligence case against a doctor, highlighted the increased rate of bogus prosecutions initiated against medical practitioners to extract 'unjust and uncalled for' compensation.A division bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Santosh Chapalgaonkar noted that the applicant in the case was accused of prescribing an...
Out Of Two Right Answers, Bombay High Court Allows MPSC To Treat Only One As Correct To Avoid Burdening The Commission And Disturb The Selection Of Candidates
The Bombay High Court Bench of Aurangabad has set aside the judgement of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal which directed the Maharashtra Public Service Commission to recount the marks of candidates who appeared for the Sub-Registrar/Stamp Inspector (Grade-1) position test . The Administrative Tribunal had accepted that the question in fact carried two right answers, therefore,...
Citizens Have 'Right To Free Speech', Not State's Burden To Ensure That They Only Know Truth: Bombay HC On IT Amendment Rules
The Bombay High Court's 'Tie-Breaker' Judge Justice Atul Chandurkar, while opining that the amendments to the Information and Technology Rules, 2021 are 'unconstitutional' held that the citizens only have the 'right to free speech and expression' but not a 'right to truth' and thus the State cannot claim to have a responsibility to ensure that citizens know only 'truth' and not 'fake or...
BREAKING | Bombay High Court 'Tie-Breaker' Judge Finds 2023 Amendment To IT Rules For Establishing Fact Check Units 'Unconstitutional'
The 'tie-breaker' judge of the Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the 2023 amendments to the IT Rules, which empowers the Central government to establish Fact Check Units (FCUs) to identify "fake and misleading" information about its business on social media platforms."I am of the opinion that the amendments are violative of Article 14 and Article 19 of the Constitution of...
Bombay High Court Issues Notice On PIL Seeking Action Against Dental Practitioners For Performing Hair Transplant Surgeries
The Bombay High Court on Thursday (Sept 19) issued notice on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition, which seeks action against the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons performing Aesthetic and Hair Transplant surgeries.A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Amit Borkar issued notice to the respondents to the petition after it was informed that the National...
Most Videos Of Mahant Ramgiri Maharaj's Objectionable Remark On Prophet Mohammad Deleted: Maharashtra Police Tells High Court
The Bombay High Court was on Thursday informed that the Sinnar Police and also the Maharashtra Police's Cyber Cell have deleted all the links and videos of controversial self-styled godman Mahant Ramgiri Maharaj, wherein, he has made some objectionable comments against Prophet Mohammad and has hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community.A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere...
Waiter Serving Food & Drinks In Bar Where Women Are Dancing Cannot Be Booked For Obscenity U/S 294 Of IPC: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Thursday held that a waiter in a Bar and Restaurant, where women are dancing in obscene manner, cannot be booked for the offence of 'obscenity' as s/he is merely performing their duty of serving food and drinks as per their employment profile.A division bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Dr Neela Gokhale while quashing a First Information Report (FIR) against one...
Bombay High Court Restrains Apollo Tyres From Airing Advertisement Ridiculing CEAT Tyres
The Bombay High Court recently passed an ex-parte order restraining the Apollo Tyres from airing an advertisement, wherein the company 'ridiculed and disparaged' CEAT Tyres.Single-judge Justice Riyaz Chagla in an order passed on September 12, restrained Apollo Tyres from airing a Visual Commercial (VC) which showed CEAT Tyres in a bad light."Prima facie, it appears that the Plaintiff is the...
'Central Ruling Party Acting Against Their Own MP?' : Bombay High Court On 'Emergency' Movie Row, Asks CBFC To Decide On Release
In an interesting turn of events, the co-producers of the controversial film "Emergency" on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that the film starring BJP member of parliament (MP) Kangana Ranaut, is being blocked from release at the behest of the BJP itself. A division bench of Justices Burgess Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla was informed that the Central Board of Film Certification...
Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Trustees Booked For Providing 'Bogus' Doctors To BMC-Run Hospital
The Bombay High Court recently granted bail to a doctor and trustees of a Trust that supplied 'bogus doctors' to a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hospital situated in Mumbai's Mulund area, wherein 149 people allegedly died from 2018 till May 2023.Single-judge Justice Manish Pitale granted bail to Dr Sushan Jadhav, Birendra Yadav and Deepak Jain - all booked under charges of...
All Officers Instructed To Scrupulously Enforce S.193 BNSS, Intimate Investigation Progress To Informant: Maharashtra Police Tells High Court
The Bombay High Court was last month informed that the Maharashtra government has issued a circular instructing all the police officers across the State to 'scrupulously' implement the provisions of the newly enforced Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which mandate the investigating officer to update the progress of the probe to the complainant, within 90 days of the registration of...