The Bombay High Court has asked the Congress, PUCL and AITUC to furnish registration certificates, constitutions and office-bearers’ names before hearing their challenge to the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act on merits.
Do lawyers need a statute of their own? The Bombay High Court says so, calling for an Advocates Protection Law as it refused anticipatory bail to a man accused of involvement in the assault of an advocate. Mumbai: A Nashik resident booked over the alleged assault and threatening of an advocate, who was representing a […]
The Bombay High Court at Goa has reserved its verdict on a family’s petition over the deletion of their names from the final voters list after the Special Intensive Revision, in which the Election Commission urged the Court to defer the hearing. Panaji: The Bombay High Court at Goa on Tuesday reserved its verdict in […]
A Bombay High Court PIL alleges illegal detention of protesters and passersby in Mumbai, and the State sought time after the Court said it could not pass blanket orders for release. Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday took up a public interest litigation alleging preventive detentions and police excesses during demonstrations in Mumbai on […]
Is a registered political party an identifiable body for the purposes of criminal defamation? Justice Nitin Borkar has said it is, finding no illegality in the Magistrate’s summoning order and leaving the effect of the remark on party members to trial. Mumbai: Declining to interfere with the Magistrate’s order issuing summons, the Bombay High Court […]
