Bring daughter before court: HC
The Bombay high court, in strict words, directed a woman’s father to produce her in court in a Habeas Corpus (a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court) petition on Thursday.
Dhule riots: SC admits petition
The Supreme Court issued a notice and admitted a petition filed by Raees Ahmed Patel, father of Saud Patel, who was reportedly shot down by the police in the Dhule riots earlier this year.
‘CID inquiry can ascertain kind of death’
Irrespective of home minister R.R.
‘Heart attack at work is employment injury’
While directing the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to pay insurance claim to a 40-year-old widow, the Bombay high court recently held that death due to heart attack at workplace amounts
Man was sent to jail despite being juvenile
Yash Thakur (name changed) was 17 years 6 months old when he was jailed on murder charges in 2003, the Bombay high court confirmed recently.
Teen jailed without age being known
Ramesh Thakur (name changed) was 17 years 6 months old when he was jailed on murder charges in 2003, the Bombay high court confirmed recently. Though granted bail in 2009 after the HC directed the sessions court to conduct an inquiry and the latter found that he was a “juvenile in conflict with law”, he had already spent six years in jail.
Mantralaya externment appeal meets a farce: HC
A peeved Bombay high court on Friday said that the officers sitting in Mantralaya “consider nothing and the proceedings heard by them are over within 10-15 minutes”.
‘Dereliction of duty by govt authorities’
Pointing out dereliction of duty on the part of state authorities, the Bombay high court on Friday directed that a representative from MMRDA, BMC and the collector shall accompany the petitioner and i
HC hears BMC’s ‘action plan’
While hearing a suo motu PIL on the city’s potholes and road conditions, the HC on Thursday said that it was not trying to find faults, but strengthen the hands of the public authorities in the state.
Centre gets HC notice over PDS
The Bombay high court on Thursday issued a notice to the Central government after the state informed the court that its request to increase the ceiling limit of below poverty line (BPL) families for d