Bombay High Court
Litigant Pays For Lawyer's Mistake, Bombay High Court Disallows Amendment To Cheque Bounce Complaint In Which Firm Was Not Made An Accused
Observing that the complainant did not get proper legal advice from his advocate, the Bombay High Court recently quashed a magistrate’s order allowing amendment to a complaint in a cheque bounce case in which the partnership firm was not made the principal accused.Justice GA Sanap of the Nagpur bench held that the amendment application was not maintainable as there was an incurable legal...
Bombay High Court Orders Take Down Of Prima Facie Defamatory Videos Against Covishield Manufacturer Serum Institute, CEO Adar Poonawalla
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed two individuals to take down prima facie defamatory content against Covishield vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India and its CEO Adar Poonawala in a Rs. 100 crore defamation suit.The court further restrained them from publishing further defamatory content. Justice Riyaz Chagla disposed of the interim application filed by SII and Adar...
Bombay High Court Refuses To Direct Netflix To Take Down 'Scoop' Web Series, Allows Chhota Rajan To Amend Suit
The Bombay High Court today refused to direct OTT platform Netflix to taken down 'Scoop' series based on an intellectual property suit by gangster Chhota Rajan.Justice Shivkumar Dige said now that the series has been released, the court will see on the next date.The court allowed Chhota Rajan to amend his suit to show how it is a matter of intellectual property rights and posted the matter...
Chhota Rajan Moves Bombay High Court Against Netflix Series Scoop, Alleges Infringement Of Personality Rights
Gangster Chhota Rajan has filed a suit before the Bombay High Court against the makers of the Netflix series Scoop for allegedly defaming him and infringing his personality rights.Rajan has impleaded the producer Matchbox Shots LLP, writer Hansal Mehta and Netflix India as defendants in the suit.“The contents of the said trailer are absolutely false, misleading & deceptive and is done...
Accident Victim’s Kin Can File Appeal If Insurance Company Exonerated Of Liability: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court directed an insurance company to compensate a woman’s kin for her death in a vehicular accident despite the driver’s license having expired on the ground that an expired license wouldn’t make him an “unskilled driver.”Justice Shivkumar Dige set aside the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal’s order exonerating the insurance company of any liability owing to the...
Bombay High Court Upholds Culpable Homicide Charge Against Contractors Over Exposed Vertical Iron Bars At Construction Site Leading To Worker's Death
The Bombay High Court recently refused to quash a culpable homicide case against two sub-contractors of a construction site in Goregaon where a worker died after falling on exposed iron bars in an RCC column.A division bench of Justice Sunil B Shukre and Justice MM Sathaye held that leaving the vertical iron bars exposed prima facie makes out a case for culpable homicide not amounting to...
Police Can't Add More Sections Against Accused And Seek Extension Of Custody By Mere Letter To Court Without Fresh Remand Papers: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court recently held that police cannot seek to add additional sections and extension of judicial custody by a mere letter to the judge without submitting remand papers and bringing the new sections to the notice of the accused.Justice SG Mehare of the Aurangabad bench observed that the accused has to be given an opportunity to contest the additional charges brought against him....
Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice Nitin Jamdar As Acting Chief Justice Of Bombay High Court
The Central Government has notified the appointment of Justice Nitin Jamdar as Acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court after Chief Justice RD Dhanuka demits office today. Justice Jamdar is from Solapur and the third generation to pursue law. After graduating from Government Law College, Mumbai, he practised at the Bombay High Court in diverse fields, primarily in administrative...
Noise Pollution: Bombay High Court Asks To Implead Mosque Trust Using Loudspeakers For Azan
The Bombay High Court has asked for the Gausiya Mosque Trust in Kandivali to be impleaded as a respondent in a writ petition against use of loudspeakers.A division bench of Chief Justice RD Dhanuka and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing an interim application filed by advocate Reena Richard, a resident of Thakur Village in Kandivali East, seeking directions to the Police to take urgent steps to...
Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka To Take Oath As Chief Justice Of Bombay High Court Today, Will Retire On Tuesday
Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka will be sworn in as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court today at Raj Bhavan and will take up matters in a vacation court division bench on Monday, a day before his retirement.The bench of Justice Dhanuka and Justice GS Kulkarni will take up nine matters on Monday from 10:30 AM.The Centre notified Justice Dhanuka’s appointment as the Chief Justice on Friday....
Aryan Khan Bribery Case: Sam D'Souza's Writ Petition Withdrawn After Bombay High Court Denies Him Interim Protection
Sam D'Souza, accused in Rs 25 Crore extortion case regarding Aryan Khan's arrest in 2021, withdrew his quashing petition after the Bombay High Court expressed disinclination to grant him interim protection from arrest. A vacation bench of Justice Abhay Ahuja allowed D’Souza to withdraw his petition while keeping all his contentions open. D'Souza can seek anticipatory bail before the...
Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice RD Dhanuka As Chief Justice Of Bombay High Court, To Have A Tenure Of 4 Days As CJ
The Central Government has notified the appointment of Justice RD Dhanuka as the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court."In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka, Judge of the Bombay High Court, to be the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court with effect from the date...