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CBI to HC: Maharashtra govt not cooperating in probe against Anil Deshmukh

The CBI told the Bombay High Court that the Maharashtra government was not cooperating with the agency in its probe against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh

UP assault case: HC grants anticipatory bail to journalist Rana Ayyub

The Bombay High Court on Monday granted transit anticipatory bail to journalist Rana Ayyub for a period of four weeks

Bombay High Court sets aside an arbitration award against BCCI

Four years later, BCCI terminated Deccan Chargers' agreement, saying the franchise failed to honour its payment obligations

HC sets aside arbitration award that needed BCCI to pay Rs 4,800 cr to DCHL

A detailed order from the high court is awaited.

HC sets aside arbitrator's award asking BCCI to pay Rs 4,800 cr to DCHL

Deccan Chronicle Holdings, the Hyderabad-based media company that acquired the franchise for $107 million in 2008, then approached the Bombay HC, seeking an order restraining BCCI from taking any step

Bombay High Court orders judicial inquiry in Malad building collapse

The Bombay High Court on Friday has ordered a judicial inquiry in the matter of the Malad building collapse that claimed the lives of 12 people."It seems that despite this Court taking suo-motu cognizance of an incident of building collapse in Bhiwandi on September 21, 2020, which took as many as 38 lives, to initiate this Public Interest Litigation for ensuring the protection of lives of citizens and having passed several orders seeking to activate the respondents to come down heavily on illegal and unauthorized buildings/structures," the court said."This Court is pained to observe that officials employed with the respondents have exhibited extreme lack of solicitude for the rule of law and failed to discharge their statutory duties effectively, which could have prevented the recent building collapses as well as saved the lives of the inhabitants thereof," it stated.The court appoints Justice JP Deodhar (Retd) of Bombay HC as commissioner of inquiry for Malad building ...

HC cancels caste certificate of Amravati MP Navneet Rana

The Bombay High Court cancelled the caste certificate issued to Amravati Lok Sabha member Navneet Kaur Rana, saying it was obtained fraudulently, and directed her to surrender it within six weeks.

Pilots' body moves Bombay HC; seeks compensation for Covid-19 death

An association of Indian pilots has approached the Bombay High Court seeking priority in vaccination against Covid and insurance coverage for those working during the pandemic

Tell Centre mucormycosis patients dying due to drug shortage: HC to Maha

The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that Maharashtra needs to tell the Centre that mucormycosis patients in the Marathwada region of the state are dying due to the shortage of medicine required in its treatment. Justices R V Ghuge and B U Debadwar of the high court's Aurangabad bench was informedthat patients in Marathwada were being under-treated as there is a shortage in the supply of Amphotericin B, a drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or black fungus infection. The bench was hearing petitions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocate Satyajit Bora, appointed to assist the court, argued that patients are being administered one to two injections per day as against the requirement of four to five injections per patient per day. As a consequence, there have been 124 deaths. Even today, there is a shortage of about 70 per cent of the required quantity of the drug, he said. Government pleader D R Kale told the court that currently there are 1,178 ...

When Maha govt has cancelled SSC exams, should we step in? Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court said when the government has decided that the situation in the state was not conducive to hold Class 10 board exams, would it be right for the court to step in

Bombay HC asks Maha govt to address security concerns raised by Serum CEO

The Bombay High Court said the Maharashtra government must assure SII CEO of requisite security in the wake of alleged threats to him over the supply of the Covishield vaccine

Goa govt seeks retrial in Tejpal case; cites trial court's observations

The Goa government in its appeal before the Bombay High Court against journalist Tarun Tejpal's acquittal in a rape case said it was a fit case for retrial

State govt responsible for issues related to public health, hospitals: HC

Public health and hospitals are a "state subject": Bombay HC

Ivermectin's efficacy against Covid proven in other nations: Goa govt to HC

The Goa government on Friday defended before the Bombay High Court its controversial decision to distribute Ivermectin tablets as preventive medicine against COVID-19.

Bombay HC to hear appeal against Tejpal's acquittal in rape case on May 27

The vacation bench of the Bombay HC at Goa will hear the state government's petition challenging the acquittal of Tehelka magazine founder editor Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case on May 27

CBI updates Bombay HC on IPS officer's complaint about corruption

The government had sought a direction to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to set aside and not carry out any investigation with regard to two paragraphs from the FIR lodged by the agency in April

Dysfunctional ventilators serious matter: Bombay HC seeks reply from Centre

The High Court said that more than a hundred ventilators provided to hospitals in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra through the PM CARES Fund turning out to be 'defective' was a serious matter

HC asks police not to arrest Param Bir Singh in atrocities case till May 23

The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the police not to arrest former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in a case under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act till May 23

Could have saved many lives with door-to-door vaccination: Bombay HC

Bombay HC said if the Union govt had started door-to-door vaccination programme for senior citizens a few months back, then lives of many of them, including prominent persons, could have been saved

Restrictions on travelling in local trains to continue: Maha govt to HC

The existing restrictions on travelling in local trains, metro trains and monorails in Mumbai cannot be relaxed at this juncture as Covid-19 cases are still spreading