Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has ruled that parents can take back any property gifted to their son if the latter ill treats or harasses them. A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudesai said this while hearing a petition filed by a son challenging a tribunal’s order that[Read More…]
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‘Send Sanjay Dutt back to jail if we’ve broken any norms’: Maha Govt tells HC
The Maharashtra government on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that Sanjay Dutt could be sent back to jail if they had *broken any norms in remitting the actor’s sentence in the 1993 blasts case. * A bench of justices RM Savant and Sadhana Jadhav, said that the court had[Read More…]
Make mathematics optional in Class X exam: Bombay HC suggests boards
In a major relief to students who doesn’t like mathematics at all, the Bombay high court suggested that all education boards should consider making the subject an optional for school certificate examinations on Monday. A bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice AM Badar observed that students who chose to[Read More…]
Rationalists’ murder: Bombay HC asks CBI, CID to work in co-ordination
The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the CBI and the Maharashtra CID to make “sincere and joint efforts” to trace the alleged absconding killers of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. The Dhabolkar case is being investigated by the CBI and a special team of CID investigates the Pansare murder[Read More…]
Intoxicated woman’s consent for sex is not an excuse for rape: Bombay HC
‘Educated women’ consenting to pre-marital sex cannot allege rape: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court has said that the ‘educated women’ must take liability for their decision to enter a pre-marital sexual relationship and a promise of marriage cannot be measured as a reason to allege rape in every case. The judgment was passed by the Justice Mridula Bhatkar. The observations[Read More…]
Bombay HC tells Tata Sons to keep Wadia’s seat vacant ‘until further orders’
The Bombay high court in an interim order directed Tata Sons to keep one seat of an independent director “vacant until further orders” in each of its companies on Friday. The court was hearing the case between Tata Sons and industrialist Nusli Wadia who serves as independent director. The directions[Read More…]
Rape survivor wins fight against ‘monstrous’ abortion law
Acting on a plea challenging the validity of abortion laws in India, the apex court has delivered an historic judgment on Monday. The Supreme Court has permitted the termination of a 24-week-old pregnancy after medical reports confirmed that the foetus had severe abnormalities and could gravely endanger the “mental and[Read More…]