High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Bombay High Court Dismissed the bail pleas of Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves in the Bhima Koregaon case. Justice SV Kotwal pronounced the judgement to a packed courtroom with Senior Advocate Mihir Desai, Dr.Yug Mohit Chaudhary and Sudeep Pasbola present for the accused applicants.Held that there no vicarious liability in criminal law unless the statute takes it within its fold and set aside summons issued by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Ballard Pier against Hindustan Unilever Limited and its Directors, for alleged non-compliance of certain provisions of the Maharashtra Shops and Establishment Act, 1948.Dismissed the bail pleas of Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves in the Bhima Koregaon case. Justice SV Kotwal pronounced the judgement to a packed courtroom with Senior Advocate Mihir Desai, Dr.Yug Mohit Chaudhary and Sudeep Pasbola present for the accused applicants.Discharged contempt proceedings against a litigant who made "wild allegations" against a Joint Civil Judge in Solapur district after he tendered an unconditional apology with folded hands. Division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice NB Suryawanshi was hearing a criminal reference made by Joint Civil Judge and JMFC Syedullah Khaleelullah Khan, Barshi, District Solapur, under Section 15(2) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.Imposed a cost of Rs 3 lakh on a woman for filling a totally false petition seeking custody of a girl (victim rescued from a brothel), claiming to be her biological mother, with the intention of forcing her into flesh trade. The woman to prove her claim even had submitted fabricated Aadhar and Pan Cards.Directed the income tax department to release the refund of over Rs.43 crore with applicable interest for assessment years 2007-08 to 2013-2014 to Vodafone Idea Limited.Posted the hearing in Binoy Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's plea for quashing of FIR to June 2021 after police informed the Court that the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboritories (DFSL) which is supposed to examine the DNA sample obtained from Binoy, is overburdened.Quashed the order passed by the Sessions Judge staying the defamation proceedings of Mahua Moitra against Zee News Editor Sudhir Choudhary. The bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi passed the order while allowing Moitra's application.Held that Indian court will have jurisdiction over a complaint under Section 498-A IPC for domestic violence committed abroad. Justice SS Shinde was hearing a writ petition filed by one Md.Zuber Farooqi who sought quashing of an order of maintenance passed by Metropolitan Magistrate, Mulund in favour of his wife Neelima. Court concluded that Neelima had prima facie made out a case of domestic violence against the petitioner.Quashed all the Letter of Rogatory (LOR) issued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence to authorities in Singapore, UAE, Hongkong and British Virgin Islands seeking information about the purchase and sale of Indonesian coal by subsidiary companies of Adani group.Set aside conviction of one Abdul Gani Mulla, a man sentenced to seven years in prison for allegedly ransacking the house, assaulting the wife and children of another man Balkrishna during the Bombay riots of 1992. Delhi High Court Quashed the order passed by the Sessions Judge staying the defamation proceedings of Mahua Moitra against Zee News Editor Sudhir Choudhary. The bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi passed the order while allowing Moitra's application.Removed S Gurumurthy from the list of respondents in a contempt case after he promised to retweet the apology posted by the author of the contemptuous article within 72 hours.Asked Union Government and Delhi Government to file counter-affidavits in a PIL seeking linking of Aadhar card with property documents.Refused to grant ad-interim injunction to Saregama India Ltd. in its copyright infringement suit against Maddock Films Pvt. Ltd. for the song "Ke Odhni Odhu Odhu Ne Udi Jaye".Reiterated that suspension of sentence, pending an appeal, doesn't imply a suspension of order of conviction. It is held by Justice Rekha Palli that in a criminal trial, if a convict has been granted bail or suspension of his sentence pending his appeal, that doesn't mean that his conviction ceases to operate. Jammu & Kashmir High Court Asked the government to ensure that legal assistance is made available to all the detenus under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978.The order was passed by the division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar, in a petition filed by one, Syed Tassadque Hussain, who asserted that no access to legal aid was made available to poor and financially unstable detenus who were detained under the recent orders of detention in the State. Karnataka High Court Observing that this is a classic case of blatant...

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