Confidential Information Can Be Relied On To Establish Security Threat: Bombay High Court Upholds Eviction Of Tenant By RBI

The Bombay High Court has held that there is no prohibition on RBI to rely on confidential information for establishing the security perception. The Court observed that the affected party cannot question the correctness of the opinion of security agencies by seeking to cross examine the officers of security agencies.Justice Sandeep V. Marne was hearing three writ petitions filed challenging orders upholding the petitioners' eviction from premises in Amar Building, Mumbai, under Section 5(1) of...

'Sorry State Of Affairs': Bombay High Court Summons Home Secy Over MHA's Failure To Respond To RBI's Loan Waiver Fraud Alert

The Bombay High Court has directed the Union Home Secretary to appear before it, after expressing displeasure over the Ministry of Home Affairs' failure to respond to repeated communications concerning the RBI's alerts about campaigns by unscrupulous elements promising loan waivers. The Court observed that the Department's persistent failure to respond to communications from its law officers, despite repeated directions, reflected a sorry state of affairs. A Division Bench of Justice Bharati...

Rupali Ganguly Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Protection Of Personality Rights

Popular TV actor Rupali Ganguly has moved the Bombay High Court seeking protection of her personality and publicity rights. She has highlighted that several online portals have been unauthorisedly using her images, video clips and some have even created deepfake and AI based images and clips for their commercial purposes. In her plea through advocate Sana Khan, Ganguly has highlighted that in her past 25 years her work in popular TV shows like Kahani Ghar Ghar ki, Sanjeevani, Sarabhai vs...

Bombay High Court Orders Removal Of Obscene Content Against Radhe Maa In Her Personality Rights Suit

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (November 3) protected the personality and publicity rights of self-styled godwoman and popular spiritual leader Sukhvinder Kaur famous as Radhe Maa. Single-judge Justice Madhav Jamdar has ordered the respondents Google and other entities to pull down all the objectionable content posted on the internet, which has prejudiced her personality and moral rights....

[BMC Rules] Is Preliminary Enquiry Mandatory Before Suspension? Bombay High Refers Issue To Larger Bench

The Bombay High Court has disagreed with a coordinate Bench's ruling that a preliminary enquiry is mandatory before suspending an employee under the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 2015, and referred the issue to a Larger Bench. The Division Bench prima facie held that Rules 4(A) and 4(B) operate independently and that suspension under Rule 4(A) does not necessarily require a prior preliminary enquiry.A Division Bench of Justice G.S. Kulkarni and...

'India Is A Secular Country': Bombay High Court Slams BJP Leaders' Remarks On Dia Mirza's Firecracker Video, Orders BMC To Restore It

"How can you object to someone's participation just because they're from some other religion?"

Victim's Criminal Antecedents No Ground To Defend 'Mob Justice': Bombay High Court Denies Bail To Man For 'Lynching' Rival

Just because a person is a history-sheeter and has several criminal antecedents, 'lynching' him to death or 'mob justice' is not justified, held the Bombay High Court while refusing bail to a man, who was part of a mob of nearly 15 persons of a family, which attacked a man over past rivalry and killed him.Single-judge Justice Milind Jadhav while denying bail to one Sharad Digambar Gorane,...

OCIs Are Not Citizens: Bombay High Court Asks Imran Khan To Apologise For Participating In SIR Protest, Extends Stay On Leave India Notice

OCI Card Holder cannot criticise or venture into all this by living here...this will not be tolerated, Court said orally.

Actor Ajay Devgn Moves Bombay High Court Against FDA Show Cause Notice Over Vimal Elaichi Ad

Bollywood Actor Ajay Devgn has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the show cause notice (SCN) issued by the Maharashtra Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) over him endorsing the Vimal Elaichi brand. Notably, in 2024, Devgn endorsed the brand Vimal Elaichi - a cardamom flavoured mouth freshner. However, on August 11, 2026, the Maharashtra FDA issued a SCN to Devgan and other two...

"Matter Of Serious Concern": Bombay High Court Flags Misuse Of Former CJ's Name By Special Officer In Trust Matter

The Bombay High Court has quashed a communication issued by a Special Officer in the name of the then Chief Justice, directing the withdrawal and suspension of a list of recommended trustees of a Nashik temple trust, holding that the officer had acted with gross impropriety and contrary to law. The Court observed that the Special Officer had misused the name of the Chief Justice and that...

Woman Who Tried To Throw Purse At Bombay High Court Judge Apologises

The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to initiate Contempt of Court proceedings against a woman litigant, who had on October 27, attempted to throw her purse towards the judge, after an order was passed against her.The female litigant, identified as Minder Gurmeet Singh Thukral, a resident of suburban Andheri, was present in the courtroom with her family members and as soon as an order...

Reminding Maharashtra Police Of Its Motto, Bombay High Court Declares Arun Ferreira's 2011 Arrest Illegal, Grants ₹2 Lakh Compensation

Reminding the Maharashtra Police of its motto - Sadrakshnaya Khalanighrahanaya - which is to protect the good and punish the evil, the Bombay High Court recently held that the September 2011 arrest of activist Arun Ferreira was "illegal" and therefore, ordered the State to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakhs to him. A division bench of Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Justice Raj Wakode...