Bombay High Court
Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Jet Airways Founder Naresh Goyal On Medical Grounds
The Bombay High Court has made Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal's interim bail absolute in relation to a money laundering case.A single-judge bench of Justice Nijamoodin Jamadar, who had earlier granted interim bail to Goyal made it absolute. On 6 May, the Court granted Goyal interim bail for two months citing his health. On 31 July, the Court extended the interim bail by two months. Goyal...
Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: November 04 - November 10, 2024
Citations 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 573 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 579Nominal Index:Ashwinkumar Sanap vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 573Puranlal Dhurve vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 574Mayur Ravindra Bhagat vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 575Maharashtra Rajya Bandhkam Kamgar Sanyukt Kriti Samiti vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 576Rakesh Lal Meena and...
Girl Booking Hotel Room, Entering It With Boy Does Not Mean She Consented To Sex: Bombay High Court
In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court at Goa held that even if a girl books a hotel room along with a man and goes inside the room, it would not mean that she has consented to sexual intercourse.Single-judge Justice Bharat Deshpande quashed an order passed by a Trial Court in Margao on March 3, 2021, discharging a man from rape charge. The Trial Court in its order, opined that since...
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: October 2024
Citation 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 499 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 567Nominal IndexLatabai Jadhav vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 499State of Maharashtra vs Sunil Kuchkoravi, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 500Kisan Moulding Limited v. Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council (MSEFC) Konkan Thane & Anr., 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 501Safset Agencies Private Ltd.vs. Riddhi Rahul Kumar Gosalia & Ors.,...
'Match Fixing' Film Perpetuates Negative Stereotypes Against Muslims, Aggravates Tensions Between Communities: Plea In Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court is likely to hear a plea seeking a stay on the release of the controversial film "Match Fixing - The Nation Is At Stake" which is based on the 2008 Malegaon Blast Case, as it perpetuates negative stereotypes against Muslims.The petition seeks a stay on the film's release on the ground that the Trailer of the film itself contains several 'baseless and false'...
Not Allowing Daughter-In-Law To Watch TV, Meet Neighbours, Go To Temple Alone & Making Her Sleep On Carpet Is Not Cruelty: Bombay High Court
Quashing a 20-year-old order convicting a man and his family for cruelty towards his deceased wife, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said that the allegations of taunting the deceased, not allowing her to watch TV, not allowing her to go alone to the temple and making her sleep on a carpet would not constitute the offence of cruelty under IPC Section 498A, as none of these...
Long-Term Contract Employment Cannot Override Regular Recruitment Process; Bombay HC
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar directed the regularization of staff nurses employed on contract basis in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. The court overturned the Central Administrative Tribunal's dismissal, ruling that the nurses, who were recruited through proper selection processes in accordance with...
Maharashtra Lokayukta Calls For Report Over Alleged Illegal Allotment Of Land Parcel To BJP State Chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule
The Lokayukta of Maharashtra recently took cognisance of a complaint lodged against the allocation of 5 hectares of land parcel in Nagpur to Shri Mahalakshmi Jagdamba Sansthan, a trust headed by Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the State Chief of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The land has been allocated for constructing a nursing college, a junior college, science-arts- commerce college, and...
Registration, Renewal And Welfare Schemes For Construction Workers Cannot Be Suspended Citing Election Code: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Thursday (November 7) while quashing the order of the Maharashtra Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board (MBOCWWB), by which it stopped the fresh registration, renewal of registrations, distribution of benefits such as protective gears, essential gears, household utility sets, grant of fresh approvals under the housing scheme and publicity work of...
Bombay High Court Calls For Strict Action Against Developers Constructing Illegal Buildings; Denies Anticipatory Bail To Developer
Calling for a 'stringent action' against developers proceeding with construction projects without mandatory approvals, which leads to frauds, the Bombay High Court recently denied anticipatory bail to a developer booked for usurping a man's ancestral property and constructing an illegal building over it and further selling flats to individual purchasers by forging...
'Mandate Of Day-To-Day Trial U/S 309 CrPC Is Thrown To The Wind': Bombay High Court Flags 'Unhealthy Practice' Of Trial Courts
The Bombay High Court while ordering a 'retrial' in a rape case, noted the 'alarming state of affairs' of most criminal trials, wherein the courts have failed to conduct a 'day-to-day' trial and therefore, issued guidelines for the lower courts to strictly adhere to section 309 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and section 346 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita...
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: September 2024
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: September 2024Nominal Index (2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 461 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 498): Mohan Chavan vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 461Abhin Anilkumar Shah versus ITO, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 462Nitin Vasantrao Bode vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 463Tejasvee Abhishek Ghosalkar vs State Of Maharashtra And Ors, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 464Vijay Sapkale...