Refusing bail to the grandfather of a one-month-old girl allegedly killed because she was a second daughter, the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench observed that even 80 years after independence people still prefer a male child, and called it a classic example of the murder of a girl child. It noted the death occurred within the walls of the applicant’s home, that a scene was allegedly staged, and that an ASHA worker’s warning was ignored. The allegations are untested.
Six years after Disha Salian’s death was closed as an accidental death, the CBI has registered an FIR on the Bombay High Court’s direction. The Court directed a fresh investigation while expressly protecting persons whose names have surfaced, holding that nobody is to be treated as an accused on that basis alone. Nothing has been established.
The Bombay High Court quashed an FIR against two men booked for drunkenly shouting at each other on a public street, holding that mere loudness, without obscenity or disturbance to a third party, does not attract the Prohibition Act, while using the occasion to lay down that criminal law cannot be a “bargaining chip” and […]
The Bombay High Court declined to hand interim custody of a girl to her biological parents from a neighbour couple who had raised her since infancy, holding that the welfare of the child, not the rights of the rival claimants, is paramount, and that uprooting a settled ten-year-old from the only home she has known […]
The Bombay High Court has declined to discharge the man accused of abetting the 2004 suicide of former Miss India Universe Nafisa Joseph, holding that at the discharge stage it could not be conclusively said that the ingredients of the offence were absent, and clearing the way for the long-stayed trial to proceed. Mumbai: The […]
The Bombay High Court set aside a Family Court order that had handed a child’s custody to the father after sermonising on the “pious duties of a wife,” holding the reasoning “regressive,” rooted in “stereotypical and erroneous notions” of marriage, and irrelevant to the only question that mattered: the welfare of the child. Mumbai: The […]
The Enforcement Directorate has told the Bombay High Court that the recovery of assets worth over Rs 14,000 crore for banks from Vijay Mallya does not wipe out the pending money-laundering charges against him, arguing that a PMLA prosecution operates in a field distinct from the recovery of civil dues. Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) […]