Bombay High Court
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: October 2024
Citation 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 499 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 567Nominal IndexLatabai Jadhav vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 499State of Maharashtra vs Sunil Kuchkoravi, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 500Kisan Moulding Limited v. Micro and Small Enterprises Facilitation Council (MSEFC) Konkan Thane & Anr., 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 501Safset Agencies Private Ltd.vs. Riddhi Rahul Kumar Gosalia & Ors.,...
'Match Fixing' Film Perpetuates Negative Stereotypes Against Muslims, Aggravates Tensions Between Communities: Plea In Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court is likely to hear a plea seeking a stay on the release of the controversial film "Match Fixing - The Nation Is At Stake" which is based on the 2008 Malegaon Blast Case, as it perpetuates negative stereotypes against Muslims.The petition seeks a stay on the film's release on the ground that the Trailer of the film itself contains several 'baseless and false'...
Not Allowing Daughter-In-Law To Watch TV, Meet Neighbours, Go To Temple Alone & Making Her Sleep On Carpet Is Not Cruelty: Bombay High Court
Quashing a 20-year-old order convicting a man and his family for cruelty towards his deceased wife, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court said that the allegations of taunting the deceased, not allowing her to watch TV, not allowing her to go alone to the temple and making her sleep on a carpet would not constitute the offence of cruelty under IPC Section 498A, as none of these...
Long-Term Contract Employment Cannot Override Regular Recruitment Process; Bombay HC
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar directed the regularization of staff nurses employed on contract basis in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu. The court overturned the Central Administrative Tribunal's dismissal, ruling that the nurses, who were recruited through proper selection processes in accordance with...
Maharashtra Lokayukta Calls For Report Over Alleged Illegal Allotment Of Land Parcel To BJP State Chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule
The Lokayukta of Maharashtra recently took cognisance of a complaint lodged against the allocation of 5 hectares of land parcel in Nagpur to Shri Mahalakshmi Jagdamba Sansthan, a trust headed by Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the State Chief of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The land has been allocated for constructing a nursing college, a junior college, science-arts- commerce college, and...
Registration, Renewal And Welfare Schemes For Construction Workers Cannot Be Suspended Citing Election Code: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Thursday (November 7) while quashing the order of the Maharashtra Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board (MBOCWWB), by which it stopped the fresh registration, renewal of registrations, distribution of benefits such as protective gears, essential gears, household utility sets, grant of fresh approvals under the housing scheme and publicity work of...
Bombay High Court Calls For Strict Action Against Developers Constructing Illegal Buildings; Denies Anticipatory Bail To Developer
Calling for a 'stringent action' against developers proceeding with construction projects without mandatory approvals, which leads to frauds, the Bombay High Court recently denied anticipatory bail to a developer booked for usurping a man's ancestral property and constructing an illegal building over it and further selling flats to individual purchasers by forging...
'Mandate Of Day-To-Day Trial U/S 309 CrPC Is Thrown To The Wind': Bombay High Court Flags 'Unhealthy Practice' Of Trial Courts
The Bombay High Court while ordering a 'retrial' in a rape case, noted the 'alarming state of affairs' of most criminal trials, wherein the courts have failed to conduct a 'day-to-day' trial and therefore, issued guidelines for the lower courts to strictly adhere to section 309 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and section 346 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita...
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: September 2024
Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: September 2024Nominal Index (2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 461 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 498): Mohan Chavan vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 461Abhin Anilkumar Shah versus ITO, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 462Nitin Vasantrao Bode vs State of Maharashtra, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 463Tejasvee Abhishek Ghosalkar vs State Of Maharashtra And Ors, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 464Vijay Sapkale...
Unless Recipient Chooses To Forward Message On WhatsApp, They Cannot Be Held Liable For Defamation: Bombay High Court
A WhatsApp message is encrypted end to end and it can only be read by the person, who received it unless the recipient chooses to forward the message, thus in such a situation a sender cannot be booked for defaming a person in society, the Bombay High Court held recently. For the 'illegal arrest' of the applicant, the High Court ordered the Investigating Officer (IO) to pay Rs 2 lakhs and...
Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 28 - November 03, 2024
Citations 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 559 to 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 572Nominal Index:M/s BK Polimex India Private Limited vs Union of India, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 559 Deepak Deshmukh vs Directorate of Enforcement, 2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 560Maruti Krishana Naik & Ors. vs. M/s. Advani Oerlikon Ltd. & Anr.,2024 LiveLaw (Bom) 561Andreas Stihl Private Limited versus The Joint Commissioner of State Tax &...
Bombay High Court Questions ECI's Decision To Reject Nomination Papers Of Candidates Across State For Being Filed After 11 AM
The Bombay High Court on Monday sought to know from the Election Commission of India (ECI) as to on what grounds it rejected the nominations of various candidates across Maharashtra, who filed their papers after 11 AM of October 30 for the upcoming State Assembly Elections.A vacation bench of Justices Arif Doctor and Somasekhar Sundaresan also ordered the ECI to furnish a list of...