Top Law News Bombay High Court upholds validity of RERA December 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today upheld the validity of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA). A bench of Justices Naresh Patil and Rajesh Ketkar pronounced its judgement on a bunch of petitions filed by by real estate developers and individual plot owners, all challenging the constitutional validity of the Act that was brought […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Real Estate Act Regulation and Development RERA
Criminal Law News Top Law News Bombay HC allows 13-year-old rape victim to abort 26-week old foetus December 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today allowed a 13-year-old rape victim to abort her 26-week-old foetus, considering her age and the agony she was likely to undergo if forced to continue with her pregnancy. The law does not allow abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. A bench of Justices Shantanu Kemkar and G S Kulkarni, however, […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured HC HC allows 13-year-old rape victim to abort 26-week old foetus Law Legal News
Top Law News Bombay High Court CJ Justice Manjula Chellur retires December 4, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Justice Manjula Chellur, retired from service today. Chellur was the second woman judge to be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, the first being Justice Sujata Manohar. On her last day in office today, CJ Chellur thanked all litigants and lawyers present in her […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Manjula Chellur
Top Law News Will revise Manodhairya scheme to hike compensation: Maha govt to HC November 30, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Facing flak over its “insensitive attitude” towards victims of rape and other women-related offences, the Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it would revise the Manodhairya scheme, raising the monetary compensation to victims to Rs 10 lakh. Under the Manodhairya Yojana launched in October 2013, the state government gives a compensation of […] Read more » Bombay High Court Compensation Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra government Manodhairya scheme
Top Law News Those with criminal records don’t have rights? HC to Maha govt November 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the Maharashtra government if it believed that people with criminal records had no right to a safe life. The government invited the high court’s ire after it submitted that it had decided not to extend police protection to persons who had a criminal record, since any threat to their […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra government
Top Law News Spell out repayment plan: HC to owners of DSK Builders November 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Voicing concern over the plight of 1,350 depositors, most of them senior citizens, who were allegedly cheated by Pune based DSK Builders, the Bombay High Court today asked the construction firm’s owners to furnish a plan or scheme to repay them. Justice Ajey Gadkari was hearing anticipatory bail applications of D S Kulkarni and his […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court DSK Builders featured Law Legal News Spell out repayment plan
High Profile Cases Bombay HC judges to facilitate auction of Aamby Valley: SC November 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today granted liberty to two Bombay High Court judges to adopt procedures to facilitate the auctioning of Sahara’s prized Aamby Valley properties and directed the Official Liquidator not to allow any obstruction in the process. A three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and A K Sikri, also […] Read more » Aamby Valley Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Missing girl case: Bombay HC warns of action against cops November 11, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking a strict note of the Mumbai Police’s failure to find a minor girl who was reported missing from the city five years ago, the Bombay High Court said that if the police department does not straighten its act soon, it will not hesitate in initiating punitive action against it. A bench of justices S […] Read more » action against cops Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Missing girl case
Top Law News Bombay HC forms panel to oversee repair, maintenance of roads in Maharashtra November 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today constituted a two-member committee to look into the repair and maintenance of roads in Maharashtra, observing that despite its several orders, the civic authorities failed to fix potholes and bad roads. Chief Justice Manjula Chellur said that while the HC did not wish to run the administration for the state […] Read more » Bombay High Court civic authorities Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra
Top Law News Sohrabuddin case: Bombay HC issues fresh notices to IPS officers November 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today issued fresh notices to IPS officers D G Vanzara (retired), Rajkumar Pandiyan, and Dinesh M N seeking their response to pleas challenging their discharge in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati. Justice A M Badar, who was hearing a plea filed by Sohrabuddin’s brother Rubabuddin, […] Read more » Bombay High Court CBI Court D G Vanzara encounter case featured Law Legal News Sohrabuddin case
Top Law News Illegal pandals: Bombay High Court notice to civic chiefs November 2, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today took a stern view of the “inaction” against the illegal pandals set up during Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri, and issued notices to commissioners of three civic bodies, asking them to explain why contempt action should not be initiated against them. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and A […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court Dombivli Municipal Corporation featured Illegal pandals Law Legal News Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation
Top Law News State must acquire private land within fixed time period: Bombay HC October 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has observed that the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) cannot hold on to a private plot of land without officially acquiring it within the period stipulated under the Land Acquisition Act. A bench of Justices Riyaz Chagla and Vasanti Naik observed this recently while hearing a petition filed […] Read more » BMC Bombay High Court Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra government
