Sprinkling Mustard In Front Of Someone's House Without Ill-Motive Is Not Offence Under Black Magic Act: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad, has said that merely sprinkling white mustard infront of someone's house door would not constitute an offence under Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and Other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act 2013, unless an ill motive or intention is attributed to it. The court thus quashed an FIR against a man lodged under...

POSH Act Penalises Woman For Filing False Complaint But Not Someone Who 'Instigates' Her To Lodge It: Bombay High Court

In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court at Goa on Monday (April 20) held that the Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH Act) provides for punishment against the complainant woman or anyone who lodged the complaint on her behalf— if the complaint is 'false and malicious'.However, the Act does not provide for any punishment...

Bombay High Court Discharges Four Accused In 2006 Malegaon Blast Case

In a major relief to four accused in the 2006 Malegaon Bomb Blast case, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday quashed and set aside the order by which a special court had framed charges against them. A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Shyam Chandak pronounced the order in the appeals filed by Rajendra Chaudhary, Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh and Manohar Ram...

Bombay High Court Monthly Digest - March 2026 [Citations 89 - 155]

Nominal Index [2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 89 to 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 155]Magnum Unit 'A' CHS Limited vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 89Shivkrupa Sahakari Patpedhi Limited vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 90Supriya Gaurav Devare vs Gaurav Jitendra Patil, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 91Mahendra Sabharu Majhi vs M/s. Mahalaxmi Enterprises, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 92Auto-Taxi, Ola-Uber Men's Union...

"Where Should The Common Man Go?" Bombay High Court Pulls Up BMC, Police For Passing The Buck On Issue Of Illegal Hawkers

The hearing on the issue of illegal hawkers before the Bombay High Court took an interesting turn on Tuesday (April 21) after the Court sent two advocates to immediately inspect the to inspect the area from CST railway station upto the HC.A division bench of Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata took note of the grievance made before it by BJP Corporator Harsh Patel from suburban...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 13 To April 19, 2026

Nominal Index [2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 182 to 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 196]Mangesh vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 182Vidyut Metallics Employees Union vs Vidyut Metallics Private Limited, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 183Nivara Infradevelopers LLP vs Union of India, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 184GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited vs Suhas Shankar Pagare, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 185Vinayak Vasudev Tilak Decd vs...

Bombay High Court Asks Centre To Decide Plea For Posthumously Conferring Padma Vibhushan On Olympian Khashaba Jadhav

The Bombay High Court last week ordered the Central Government to decide if it would confer the Padma Vibhushan Award on former wrestler Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, posthumously, by May 4.Jadhav is the first Indian athlete to win a medal in Olympics in individual category. He had bagged a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics.A division bench of Justice...

S.294 CrPC Mandatory, Trial Court Cannot Reject Admission Or Denial Of Documents On Ground Of Relevance: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that Section 294 CrPC is mandatory and the Trial Court cannot reject an application seeking to call upon the opposite party to admit or deny documents merely on the ground of relevancy. The Court observed that once documents are brought on record in accordance with law, the Court is bound to follow the statutory procedure of calling upon the other party to admit...

Bombay High Court Rejects PIL Claiming Misuse Of Taxpayers' Money On RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat's Z+ Security

The Bombay High Court today dismissed a PIL that raised questions over the Z Plus security provided to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat and sought recovery of tax payers' money claiming that RSS is an "unregistered" organisation. Sitting at the Nagpur seat, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar dismissed the PIL filed by one Lalan Kishore Singh,...

Pharma Pricing Authority Cannot Equate 'Sustained Release' With 'Controlled Release' Drug To Fix Ceiling Prices Without Notification: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has held that the authority cannot equate 'sustained release' with 'controlled release' formulations to fix ceiling prices in the absence of a specific notification covering such formulations. The Court observed that a demand raised after more than a decade, without explanation and without affording a proper opportunity, violates principles of natural justice and cannot...

'Housing Society Cannot Decide Title' : Bombay High Court Orders Co-operative Society To Grant Membership

Observing that a co-operative housing society is not a forum constituted for adjudicating title disputes, the Bombay High Court on Friday (April 18) ordered a suburban Malad based housing society to grant membership to a man, who was denied the same citing the existence of multiple legal heirs of his parents. Single-judge Justice Amit Borkar upheld the order passed on November 13, 2014 by...

Bombay High Court Seeks Centre's Response On PIL Seeking Inclusion Of SSPE In Rare Diseases Policy

The Bombay High Court on Friday ordered the Central Government to clarify its stance on a public interest litigation (PIL) highlighting the sufferings of the families and also the patients diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative disease called - Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE), which is caused by mutated measles virus.A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and...