Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: May 18 to May 24, 2026

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 262 - 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 269Nominal IndexKBC vs BSC, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 262HRBK vs LRRK, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 263Mayur Sakharam Sawant vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 264Vinodkumar Chellappan Pillai vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 265Shekhar Kakasaheb Jagtap vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 266Unaided Schools Forum vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 267Mumbai Press Club vs Gurbir Singh, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 268Pradeep Rambhau Gaikwad vs State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 269Final Orders/JudgmentsWives Are Not 'Deemed Maids': Bombay High Court Says Refusal To Perform Domestic Chores Like Cooking, Cleaning Is Not CrueltyCase Title: KBC vs BSCCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 262Wives are not 'deemed maids' and thus, their failure to perform domestic chores such as cooking, cleaning etc does not amount to cruelty, held the Bombay High Court recently. A division bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Manjusha Deshpande quashed and set aside a judgment of the Family Court in Mumbai, which on July 23, 2010 granted divorce to a Chartered Accountant man, on grounds of cruelty.Even Highly Qualified Persons Not Getting Jobs Due To Rising Unemployment: Bombay High Court Says Educated Wife Can't Be Denied MaintenanceCase Title: HRBK vs LRRKCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 263The Bombay High Court recently while dealing with case pertaining to the payment of monthly maintenance to a wife, took judicial note of the rising unemployment and observed that even the highly educated persons are jobless and thus, even if a woman is highly educated she cannot be denied maintenance. Sitting at the Nagpur seat, single-judge Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke while dismissing a husband's argument that his wife has studied upto post graduation and is an able-bodied person and thus, can maintain herself.Recruitment Processes Must Be Conducted With Certainty & Within Timelines; Courts Can't Reopen Them On Vague Pleas: Bombay High CourtCase Title: Mayur Sakharam Sawant vs State of Maharashtra Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 264The Bombay High Court recently held that in cases of public recruitment processes, wherein large number of candidates apply for jobs, courts cannot casually interfere at any stage of the process and order reopening of a particular process especially on vague and unsubstantiated pleas made by any candidate. A division bench of Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Hiten Venegavkar refused to grant any relief to one Mayur Sawant (31), who had participated in the recruitment process for the post of Social Service Superintendent (Medical) and cleared the examinations for the same which were held in September 2025. Bombay High Court Strikes Down Rule Mandating One-Year Imprisonment For Regular Parole, Calls It Arbitrary & UnconstitutionalCase Title: Vinodkumar Chellappan Pillai vs State of MaharashtraCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 265The Bombay High Court has struck down the portion of Rule 14(1) of the Maharashtra Prisons (Furlough and Parole) Rules, 2024, which mandated that a prisoner could become eligible for regular parole only after completion of one year of actual imprisonment. The Court held that the condition was manifestly arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution.Bombay High Court Quashes FIRs Against Former Top Cop Sanjay Pandey, Lawyer Over Alleged Bid To Frame Fadnavis, Shinde In Extortion CaseCase Title: Shekhar Kakasaheb Jagtap vs State of MaharashtraCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 266The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (May 20) quashed the First Information Reports (FIRs) lodged against Sanjay Pandey— the former Commissioner of Mumbai Police who also served as the Director General of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra, and a lawyer— who were accused of deliberately re-opening a criminal case against a businessman and forcing him to give certain statements against Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his Deputy Eknath Shinde.Bombay High Court Stays Deployment Of Private Unaided, Minority School Teachers For Census DutiesCase Title: Unaided Schools Forum vs State of MaharashtraCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 267The Bombay High Court on Friday (May 22) granted an interim stay on deploying the teaching and non-teaching staff of the private unaided and private unaided minority schools for the decennial census operations across Maharashtra. A vacation court presided over by a division bench of Justice Gautam Ankhad and Justice Sandesh Patil while granting interim relief to thousands of staff working in over more than 500 private unaided and private unaided minority schools across Maharashtra, prima facie, held that there was no 'express' obligation on the staff of such schools to be requisitioned for census work.Bombay High Court Stays Order Halting Journalist's Expulsion From Mumbai Press Club Over Inviting Bhima Koregaon Case AccusedCase Title: Mumbai Press Club vs Gurbir SinghCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 268The Bombay High Court on Friday...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: May 18 to May 24, 2026

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