Bombay High Court
Nagpur Improvement Trust Asking To Vacate Land In 30 Days 'Waives' 2 Month Notice Allottee Has To Give Before Filing Lawsuit: Bombay HC
In a case concerning the interpretation of Section 115 of Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) Act wherein a person can sue the authority only after two months from the expiry of his notice to the authority, the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court said that NIT's conduct in asking a party to vacate a land in 30 days in turn amounted to a waiver of Section 115's mandate. For context, Section 115...
Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Chhota Rajan In Hotelier Murder Case, Suspends Life Sentence
The Bombay High Court has granted bail to gangster Chhota Rajan, who was convicted for the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001. On May 30, 2024, a special MCOCA Court convicted Rajan along with others and sentenced him to life imprisonment. This was Rajan's second life sentence and he is already serving time for the 2011 murder of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Today, a division bench...
Bombay HC Holds 'Income From Leasing Of Property' As 'Income From Business', Says Deciding Factor Is Not Ownership But Nature Of Activity
The Bombay High Court held that assessee had correctly accounted income from leasing out of properties under the head 'income from profits & gains of businesses', and not as 'income from house property'. The High Held so after finding that income of assessee is derived from letting out of the properties, which in fact, is the principal business of the assessee as seen from its...
Bombay High Court Grants Bail To Sachin Waze In Corruption Case Related To Anil Deshmukh
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to dismissed controversial cop Sachin Waze, who was arrested in the 'corruption' case related to former Home Minister and senior NCP (SP) leader Anil Deshmukh.A division bench of Justices Mahesh Sonak and Jitendra Jain ordered Waze's release subject to the conditions, that will be imposed on him by the special anti-corruption court in...
Non-Compete Clause Is Invalid Post-Termination Of Contract As It Results In Restraint Of Trade: Bombay High Court Sets Aside Injunction
The Bombay High Court Bench of Justice A.S. Chandurkar and Justice Rajesh S. Patil has held that though a non-compete clause can operate validly during the term of the agreement. But it would not be valid post-termination of the agreement as it would result in restraint of trade prohibited by Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Additionally, the court noted that it is required...
Bombay High Court Pulls Up Mumbai Police For “Lethargic And Lackadaisical" Probe In Allegations Of Illegal Bungalows In City's Madh-Island Region
The Bombay High Court last week pulled up the Mumbai Police for its 'lethargic and lackadaisical' approach in dealing with a First Information Report (FIR) related to the alleged forging of documents and also maps to construct illegal bungalows at the city's plush Madh-Island area in western suburbs.A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan noted that the FIR...
Teachers Will Be Called For Poll Duty During Diwali Vacations; On Poll Day And Day Before Polls: ECI Tells Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Monday disposed of a petition filed by the parents of school students, who challenged the 'full time' poll duties for teachers amid exams, arguing that it 'violates the right to education' of their children.This comes after the Election Commission of India (ECI) told a division bench of Justices Atul Chandurkar and Rajesh Patil that it has amended its earlier orders...
Bombay High Court Asks Pollution Control Board, BMC To Respond To Allegations Of Rampant Use Of 'PoP Idols' During Festivals
The Bombay High Court on Monday (October 21) asked the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC) to file affidavits to respond to allegations of rampant use of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols during festivals this year.The matter concerns a PIL that seeks implementation of the ban on using PoP to manufacture religious idols. Today, the counsel...
Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: 14 October - 20 October, 2024
Citation 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 520 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 542Nominal Index:Ganpat Bhagoji Kshirsagar & ors. vs. Anjana Krushna Jamdade & anr., 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 520Bajaj Electricals Limited vs. Electronics Mart India Limited & Ors., 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 521Simpy Bhardwaj vs Union of India, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 522Kher Nagar Sukhsadan Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. v. State of...
PIL In Bombay Court Against 'Ticket Scalping' And 'Black Marketing' Of Online Tickets Of Concerts And Major Events
In relation to the recent controversy concerning 'ticket scalping' of Coldplay concert, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking the formation of guidelines to address the practices of black marketing, ticket touting and ticket scalping of online tickets during concerts and other events.Recently, tickets for Coldplay's concert were available at the...
Rejection Of Application For Voluntary Cancellation Of GST Registration Didn't Contain Reasons: Bombay HC Quashes Rejection Order
The Bombay High Court ruled that since the revocation orders for registration cancellation on petitioner's application were passed contrary to principles of natural justice, all the subsequent proceedings initiated thereafter, which are consequential, shall be quashed.“Before the revocation of cancellation of registration, the Petitioner was not supplied with the documents on the basis of...
Bombay High Court Quashes FIR Against Lawyer For Shouting "Pannas Khoke Ekdum Okay" Against Shiv Sena (Shinde) Leader
The Bombay High Court recently quashed a First Information Report (FIR) against a lawyer, who along with a few farmers, staged an agitation in front of the convoy of Abdul Sattar, the Minister of Agriculture, who had joined the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) group, by raising slogans like "Pannas Khoke, Ekdum Okay" (Fifty Crores All Okay).Notably, this slogan has been used for Chief Minister...