Bombay High Court
While Imposing Conditions For Bail, Trial Court Cannot Direct Accused To Apply For Passport, Obtain It & Then Surrender It: Bombay HC
In a significant order, the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday held that a trial court while granting bail does not have any power to direct a person/accused to apply for a passport, obtain it and then surrender it to avail bail.Single-judge Justice Bharat Deshpande quashed and set aside such an "unusual" condition imposed by a trial court in Agassaim, Goa while granting bail to...
Bombay High Court Pulls Up Maharashtra Govt Over Advisory Board On Persons With Disabilities Remaining Defunct Since 2020
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Maharashtra government for failing to make functional, the State Advisory Board, as mandated under the Rights of Persons with Physical Disabilities Act, 2016, for the last four years.A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Amit Borkar noted that the Advisory Board, which has to take up the cause of people...
Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Permanent Appointment Of 7 Additional Judges Of Bombay High Court, Fresh 1-Yr Term For 2 Addl Judges
The Supreme Court Collegium, comprising CJI Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice B R Gavai has recommended to make 7 Additional Judges of the Bombay High Court as Permanent Judges.Additionally, two other Additional Judges were recommended for a fresh term of one year with effect from October 07.The collegium recommended the following Additional Judges to be made...
Bombay High Court Directs Patanjali Ayurved To Deposit Rs 50 Lakh For Breach Of Injunction Order In Trademark Infringement Case
The Bombay High Court has directed Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. to deposit Rs. 50,00,000 to the court as it violated an injunction/ad-interim order of the Court that had restrained the company from selling its camphor products, in relation to a trademark infringement case filed by Mangalam Organics Ltd.Mangalam Organics (applicant) had filed a commercial IPR suit against Patanjali Ayurved...
Society In Which Earning Members Are Addicted Will Naturally Suffer Economically And Socially: Bombay High Court
A society in which the earning member of the family is addicted, would naturally suffer economically and socially, the Bombay High Court observed recently while upholding the detention of a woman on the ground that she was manufacturing illegal liquor.A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande held that the Detaining Authority, in the instant case, rightly formed...
"Remarks Against Rohingyas & Bangladeshis, Didn't Hurt Indian Religious Sentiments": State To Bombay HC In Hate Speech Case Against BJP Leaders
Using the words Rohingyas, Bangladeshis or Jihadis is not against the Muslim community living in India, the Mumbai Police told Bombay High Court on Tuesday while justifying its decision not to invoke section 295A (outraging religious sentiments) against BJP leaders Nitesh Rane, T Raja and Geeta Jain."No case is made out for section 295A. The entire statement is against the Rohingyas...
Section 5 Of Limitation Act Can Be Applied To Condone Delays Under Commercial Courts Act Even In Absence Of Express Provisions: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court condoned delay in filing an appeal pertaining to a commercial suit, citing Section 13 of the Commercial Courts Act which allows for the condonation of delay, even in absence of any specific provisions in the Limitation Act. The Court referred to Section 29 of the Limitation Act, stating that since the Commercial Courts Act does not specify a limitation period, Sections 4...
Bombay High Court Upholds Constitutional Validity Of UGC Regulations On Distance Learning And Online Programmes
The Bombay High Court has upheld the constitutional validity of the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) Regulations, 2020, which require universities to meet specific accreditation scores or rankings and to offer programmes in conventional/traditional mode before offering them through distance or online modes. However, the Court also...
Bombay High Court Expresses Anguish Over Social Stigma Suffered By Women Due To Unwanted Pregnancies Without Any Repercussions For Men
A bench led by Justice Ajay Gadkari denied permission to a married woman to abort her over 26 week-pregnancy, which she developed due to an affair with a married friend.
Bombay HC Orders Directorate Of Higher Education To Look Into Allegations Of 'Institutional Casteism, Sexual Harassment' Within ILS Law College
The Bombay High Court on its administrative side has asked the Directorate of Higher Education, Pune to look into the allegations of 'institutional casteism, ragging, sexual harassment, hooliganism, favouritism and ill-treatment of minority students' levelled by over 118 students and alumni of the ILS Law College, Pune.In a letter addressed to the Directorate of the Higher Education on July...
Breakwater-Wall For Ship-Safety Not 'Plant And Machinery', GAIL Subsidiary Not Eligible For ITC: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has held that the breakwater wall or accropode that are essential certainly do not qualify as plant and machinery. The breakwater wall can hardly be called “plant or machinery." Accropodes lose their identity when a breakwater wall is constructed using accropode.The bench of Justice K. R. Shriram and Justice Jitendra Jain has observed that Explanation to Section 17...
Bombay High Court Weekly Round-up: July 01 - July 07, 2024
Nominal Index [Citation 320 - 334]ABC v. State of Maharashtra 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 320Ritu Dinesh Maloo v. State of Maharashtra 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 321Kartik Vaman Bhatt v. Union of India & Ors. 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 322Dr. Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil & Ors. v. Chief Minister, State Of Maharashtra & Ors 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 323The Indian Express (P) Ltd. and Ors. v. Ganesh Gopinath Rane...