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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicBombay High Court

Topic: Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court refuses to declare Aarey Colony a forest, dismisses pleas on tree felling

A bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre dismissed four petitions filed by environment activists related to Aarey Colony, a major green lung in Mumbai.

Interference in appointments, transfers of judges doesn’t augur well: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court made the observation while hearing a plea by the Gujarat HC Advocate Association on the transfer of Bombay HC judge Justice Akil Kureshi.

Bombay HC orders FIR against Ajit Pawar in Cooperative Bank scam, SC refuses to interfere

A Supreme Court bench heard a petition against the High Court order and said the investigation will proceed uninfluenced by the order.

Does War & Peace taunt show how poorly equipped Indian judges are to handle security cases?

A Bombay High Court judge reportedly questioned activist Vernon Gonsalves over keeping a book named ‘War and Peace’ at home.

‘War and Peace’ judge has made news before — with matrimonial cruelty & acid attack cases

Justice Kotwal, who became additional judge of Bombay HC in June 2017, asked why activist Vernon Gonsalves possessed Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’.

More trouble for Chidambaram as tech company claims he initiated ‘malafide action’

Former Union minister P. Chidambaram, who has been summoned by Bombay High Court in the case, has sought documents of the suits filed by 63 Moons Technologies.

Bombay High Court grants interim protection to Indira Jaising, Anand Grover & their NGO

The CBI is investigating Indira Jaising and husband Anand Grover over alleged FCRA violations in receiving foreign funds for their NGO, Lawyers Collective.

Bombay High Court issues notices to Gadkari & election commission over his election

A single-judge bench took up for hearing three separate election petitions alleging electoral malpractices in the poll process.

HC order a big blow to Mumbai coastal road plan, could push project back to drawing board

HC has set aside clearances to project as ‘illegal’, but upheld notification amending CRZ norms to allow reclamation for roads in exceptional cases.

CBFC has no intellectual morality to decide what people can watch: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court pulled up the film certification board while hearing a plea filed by Children's Film Society over a U certificate to its film "Chidiakhana".

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.