A day after the Bombay High Court at Goa ordered their release, two police stations and an Executive Magistrate have filed affidavits defending the detention of seven anti-ECI protesters at Panaji’s Azad Maidan, citing apprehended disturbance. Panaji: The police inspectors of the Panaji and Pernem police stations and the Executive Magistrate of Tiswadi on Monday […]
Abortion beyond 24 weeks was refused to a woman who says her husband hid an earlier marriage; the Bombay High Court held that “relief cannot exceed the four corners of statute”. Mumbai: Turning down a 33-year-old married woman’s plea to have her pregnancy medically terminated under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971, because […]
The Bombay High Court at Goa has ordered the release of seven anti-ECI protesters detained at Azad Maidan, Panaji, noting that no prohibitory order under Section 163 BNSS was in force. Panaji: The Bombay High Court at Goa, sitting on a Sunday, has ordered the release of seven persons detained while protesting against the Election […]
The Bombay High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail to an accused in a Rs 7.17 crore digital arrest fraud, holding that custodial interrogation is necessary after Rs 4.03 crore of the defrauded amount was credited to his bank account. Aurangabad: The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad has rejected the anticipatory bail application of a man named […]
Whose Mercedes? In the NIA appeal against Sachin Waze’s bail, the Bombay High Court expressed surprise at the former police officer owning five high-end cars. Mumbai: Five high-end cars owned by Sachin Waze, the dismissed Mumbai Police officer, drew the surprise of the Bombay High Court on Thursday, as did his alleged practice of travelling […]
Bombay High Court Pulls Up BMC Over Garbage and poor hygiene across Mumbai, telling the civic body that the Court sees no improvement and directing it to file a ward-wise affidavit on the steps taken. Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday criticised the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for failing to take effective measures to […]
Alleged road blockades in Pune on one side, more than 70,000 vacancies on the other: the Bombay High Court has said that protesting MPSC students are not anti-nationals, asking the Maharashtra Government to take genuine steps to restore their trust in the recruitment system and urging the students to return to their studies. Mumbai: Students […]
“Paper apology”: that is how the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court described the unconditional apologies of a father and son, both advocates, as it found Two Lawyers Guilty Of Contempt for shouting at a Judicial Magistrate and threatening him in open court. Nagpur: Advocates Sagar Durgadas Rathod and his father Durgadas D Rathod […]
Maharashtra has asked the Bombay High Court to turn away, at the threshold, the challenge to the Special Public Security Act, contending in an affidavit that the petitioners have no locus and that the State has the highest number of Maoist frontal organisations in the country. Mumbai: Defending the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, 2025 […]
Recording court proceedings without permission ended with a seized phone and Rs 10,000 in costs for a courtroom spectator, and a warning from the Bombay High Court that a repeat will invite contempt proceedings. Mumbai: A phone with its flash on, held at the back of the courtroom during a hearing, led the Bombay High […]
