October 13 is the new date for the Form 8 rejection challenge in the Goa Special Intensive Revision, after the Bombay High Court at Goa granted the Election Commission a week while related cases are pending in the Supreme Court. Panaji: The Bombay High Court at Goa has put off to October 13, 2026 a […]
The Bombay High Court has declined an oral prayer for an interim stay on deletions of voters’ names in a public interest petition highlighting flaws in the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Maharashtra, saying it will follow judicial propriety and let the Supreme Court hear the matter first. Mumbai: The Bombay High […]
Justice Gauri Godse of the Bombay High Court has partly allowed Serum Institute of India and Adar Poonawalla’s interim application in their defamation suit, directing X Corp to take down a fresh video posted by defendant Yohan Tengra after the June 2023 injunction, refusing wider directions against intermediaries, and issuing show-cause notices to defendants 1 to 4 under Order XXXIX Rule 2A CPC returnable on October 27, 2026.
The Bombay High Court has dismissed Rani Pratap Singh’s revision against her conviction under Sections 3 to 6 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act for running a brothel at Grant Road, holding that the argument that the victim was a Bangladeshi illegal immigrant amounted to ‘victim shaming’ and that NGO witnesses in brothel raids are not ‘interested witnesses’.
The Bombay High Court at Goa has asked the Election Commission why its software rejects Form 8 address-change applications outright during the Special Intensive Revision, on a plea by the Salgaonkar family whose names were dropped from the draft roll. The ECI says the family never filed enumeration forms and had a remedy under Form 6.
Justice Milind N. Jadhav of the Bombay High Court has granted eight months’ interim bail to Pooja Lovepreet Lal, accused by the DRI of carrying 6 kg of cocaine, on humanitarian grounds, noting that her eight-month-old daughter, housed with her in prison, has had respiratory illness requiring repeated hospital care, while stressing that Section 37 NDPS is not diluted and the order is not on merits.
The Bombay High Court, Kolhapur Circuit Bench, has rejected under Order VII Rule 11 CPC the election petition filed by Vinayak Bhaurao Raut challenging Narayan Tatu Rane’s 2024 Lok Sabha victory from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, holding that the corrupt practice averments lacked material particulars under Section 83(1) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, though defects in affidavit, verification and translation were curable.
The Bombay High Court at Nagpur has dismissed Nikhil Madhukar Thepale’s appeal against refusal of anticipatory bail in a case under the BNS, the IT Act and the SC/ST Act, holding that circulation of objectionable videos and photographs of the complainant on WhatsApp is prima facie within public view and that the bar under Section 18 of the SC/ST Act applies, and noting that he has remained absconding. The allegations are untested.
