CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court has ordered the complainant policeman and investigation officer to compensate a man arrested under a repealed law, calling the action “illegal” and a violation of his rights to personal liberty.The high court on Oct 23 ordered the investigating officer, police inspector Narendra Padalkar, to pay Rs2…
Actress Rhea Chakraborty who has been in the spotlight for the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, has a reason to feel relieved. On Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the State of Maharashtra, and the Bureau of Immigration, which sought to challenge the Bombay High Court‘s…
MUMBAI: Criticising Customs department for confiscating nude artworks of Francis Newton Souza and Akbar Padamsee on the ground that such “obscene material” is prohibited for import, Bombay high court asked if Customs officials can apply their own notion of what is obscenity. “At this rate, what will you say of Khajuraho temples?” Justice Mahesh Sonak…
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in a corruption case involving former Maharashtra home minister and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Anil Deshmukh.He had alleged that the NCP (SP) leader had pressurised him to do several illegal activities by claiming that instructions had come…
NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court refused pre-arrest bail to a man who allegedly thrashed a 71-year-old man on suspicion that the latter was carrying beef on a train both were travelling. A single bench of Justice R N Laddha, in the order dated October 18, refused anticipatory bail to Akash Avhad, while noting that…
HYDERABAD: Barely seven months after he was cleared of having links with Maoists by Bombay HC, which called the trial court proceedings a “failure of justice”, former DU professor GN Saibaba died Saturday night at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences hospital. Doctors said he was admitted for removal of gallstones and died of post-surgery complications.The…
Badlapur sexual assault case: HC raps police for inability to nab accused school trustees NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday sharply criticized the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for its failure to apprehend two school trustees accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case. The division bench, comprising Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan,…
NEW DELHI: The father of Badlapur sexual assault case accused has written a letter to Union home minister Amit Shah and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday, seeking police protection for himself and his family. He alleged that they have been receiving threats following the death of his son, Akshay Shinde, who was…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Thursday pronounced its ruling and struck down the Centre’s fact check unit (FCU) rule. HC declared the amendment to IT Rules, 2021, “unconstitutional” and struck down the rule to establish FCUs to identify “fake, false and misleading” information about the Centre’s business posted on social media and digital platforms.Following third…
Kangana Ranaut‘s directorial ‘Emergency‘ which also stars the actress, has been in trouble since a while now. The film was supposed to release on September 6, however, it did not get certificate from the censor board of film certification (CBFC) as they suggested some cuts. Thus, the release was delayed. Now, on Thursday after a…
