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Bombay High Court Directs Probate Grants To Be Issued Within 2 Weeks Of Court Order, Bars Subsequent Caveats

The Bombay High Court has directed officers exercising functions under its Testamentary and Intestate Jurisdiction to, henceforth, restrict orders directing issuance of grants to a direction to issue the grant, without making it subject to verification of whether any cross Petition or Caveat has been filed. The Court further directed that all grants be issued no later than two weeks from the...

Honorarium Cannot Be Used To Deny Dignified Wages: Bombay High Court Directs Minimum Wages For Community Health Volunteers

The Bombay High Court has held that Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) engaged by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai are entitled to receive minimum wages under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, for the hours of duty performed by them. The Court further held that mere branding of the remuneration paid to CHVs as honorarium, or describing them as volunteers, cannot deny them the status...

Serious Issue: Bombay High Court Initiates Suo Motu PIL Over Water Shortage At Mumbai University Girls Hostel

The Bombay High Court on Monday (August 17) took suo motu cognisance of the "acute water shortage" being faced by the University of Mumbai's Madam Cama Girl's Hostel situated in the city's posh Churchgate area. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad initiated the suo motu proceedings after coming across news reports carried by two leading...

Non-Supply Of RTI Information After Election Results Is Not Corrupt Practice U/S 123(7) Of RP Act: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that non-supply of information sought under the RTI Act after the declaration of election results does not constitute assistance for furthering the prospects of a candidate's election and therefore cannot constitute a corrupt practice under Section 123(7) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. The Court observed that the election petition must...

Bombay High Court Reserves Verdict In Challenge To Immersion Of PoP God Idols In Natural Water Bodies

The Bombay High Court on Friday (August 14) closed for orders, a batch of petitions, seeking a complete ban on immersion of Plaster of Paris (PoP) made Ganesh idols in natural water bodies. The High Court has however, clarified that its last year's order which permitted immersion of only six feet and above height PoP idols in natural water bodies and rest (below six feet) in artificial tanks,...

Bombay High Court Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Ex-TISS Student Booked For Raising Slogans To Release Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid

The Bombay High Court on Friday (August 14) granted interim protection from arrest to Kamakhya Prasad Das, a former TISS student, who was booked for raising slogans "to free Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam."Justice Prafulla Khubalkar agreed to hear Das' plea seeking anticipatory bail on August 31 and granted him interim protection from arrest in the meantime. Notably, a Mumbai Court had last...

Growing Stray Dog Population Root Of Problem, Aggressively Implement Sterilisation Programme: Bombay High Court To Maharashtra

The Bombay High Court on Friday (August 14) observed that the major problem with the stray dogs menace is the increasing population of stray dogs and therefore, ordered the Maharashtra Government to aggressively implement the 'sterilisation' program as mandated under the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules of 2023. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam...

Bombay High Court Orders Immediate Discharge Of LPG Cargo From Arrested Vessel At Jaigarh Port Citing Risk Of Fire, Explosion

The Bombay High Court has issued urgent directions for immediate discharge of LPG from the arrested vessel LPG Amir Gas at Jaigarh Port, in view of the risk of fire or explosion and the “catastrophic consequences” that a large-scale release of LPG could result in. The Court further directed the concerned disaster management authorities and the Director General of Shipping to extend...

Agreement Where Developer Retains Share In Property Is Not Pure Construction Contract; Specific Performance Not Barred: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that a development agreement under which the developer is to develop the entire plot, hand over 50% of the area to the owner and retain the balance 50% cannot be construed as a pure construction contract for applying Section 14(3)(c) of the Specific Relief Act. The Court observed that when there was no clause in the agreement requiring satisfaction of...

Bombay High Court Directs BMC To Mandatorily Mention Appeal Remedy In Disciplinary Orders

The Bombay High Court has directed the Municipal Corporation to specifically mention the remedy of appeal, along with the relevant provision under the Rules, in every disciplinary order passed against its employees. The Court observed that the 2015 Rules provide a mechanism of appeal against an order imposing the penalty of termination or removal from service, and the State Government cannot...