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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicBombay High Court

Topic: Bombay High Court

Why HC called changes to IT rules, which allowed setting up of fact-check units, ‘arbitrary restriction’

Justice Atul Chandurkar said the restrictions aim to prevent dissemination of information as envisaged under IT Act, added it’s not on the Centre to determine if some info is fake or true.

Bombay HC’s ‘tie-breaker judge’ strikes down amendments that paved way for ‘fact-check units’

After a split verdict by two-judge bench in January, Justice Atul Chandurkar said Friday the 2023 amendments to IT rules was violative of Articles 14, 19 and 21.

‘Creative freedom can’t be curtailed,’ Bombay HC tells censor board on Kangana’s ‘Emergency’

Unhappy over delay in release of film, court asks Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to take a decision by 25 September.

Bahirats vs Maharashtra govt: How a Pune family fought 60 yrs for land illegally taken over by state

In rap to Maharashtra govt for dragging its feet in legal battle, SC has said it must increase compensation for 24-acre plot or its 'Ladli Behna, Ladli Bahu schemes' would be stopped.

Why HC ordered teen’s release in Pune Porsche case. ‘Must receive same treatment regardless of crime’

Quashing remand orders passed by Juvenile Justice Board as 'illegal', Bombay HC bench said rule of law must prevail even though law enforcement agencies 'succumbed to public pressure'.

‘Ulterior motive’ — tribunal order quashing ED attachment of NCP MP Praful Patel’s Rs 180 cr properties

Properties in Mumbai were attached by ED in 2022 as part of probe into a money laundering case arising out of a 1994 FIR against now-slain Dawood aide Iqbal Memon, alias Iqbal Mirchi.

Oka to Nagarathna to Venkatesh—these judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Ex-cop Pradeep Sharma gets life term in fake encounter case, Bombay HC calls his acquittal ‘perverse’

HC also upheld conviction & life sentence imposed by trial court on 13 persons, including cops, and quashed the conviction and life sentence of 6 other accused and acquitted them.

Bombay HC orders rape convict’s release after 19 years in jail as he was a minor at time of crime

Pintu Ramdaras Chauhan was sentenced to life imprisonment for crime committed in January 2005. He was 16 then.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.