Who films a hearing from the corridor, and on whose instruction? A clerk who said he acted for a junior advocate was caught on camera-phone, and over this unauthorised recording of court proceedings the Bombay High Court has seized the phone and fined the advocate Rs 25,000 and the clerk Rs 10,000. Mumbai: The Bombay […]
“The deterrent can come only when their entitlement to receive a permanent alternate accommodation stands forfeited,” the Bombay High Court has said as it mooted Forfeiture Of Rehab Homes for slum dwellers who litter public roads, and asked the Slum Rehabilitation Authority to take instructions on the step. Mumbai: Slum dwellers who are caught dumping […]
The Bombay High Court questioned the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) on how the petitioner’s private land, which has 5 to 6 structures, could be declared a slum merely because it is near an adjoining slum area.
