MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected a petition by Mirza Himayat Baig, who was convicted in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, to shift him to a general barrack from solitary confinement.“At this stage, there is no concern about any psychological trauma on account of any indefinite solitary confinement,” said Justices Revati Mohite Dere…
The HC dismissed this argument, emphasizing that the victim’s instinct in recognizing inappropriate behavior must be believed. NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court has upheld the five-year imprisonment of a former Lieutenant Colonel convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl, saying that the victim clearly identified the “bad touch” and described the incident with “immense…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the plea of Indrani Mukerjea, an accused in her daughter Sheena Bora murder’s case, to travel abroad during pendency of the trial.Expressing doubt whether she will return to the country to face trial, a bench of Justices M M Sundaresh and Rajesh Bindal refused her request to go…
MUMBAI: Automobile major Volkswagen has approached Bombay high court to challenge a notice issued by revenue authorities last year for an “impossibly enormous” demand of $1.4 billion.The show cause notice issued in Sept 2024 under the Customs Act pertains to import of automobile parts. Customs authorities say that the unit of the German manufacturer in…
MUMBAI: Activist Anjali Damania has written to Bombay high court chief justice, seeking suo motu action in the probe into the kidnapping-murder of Massajog sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh.Raising concerns about state minister Dhananjay Munde‘s business ties with prime accused, Walmik Karad, she urged HC to have the probe transferred out of Munde’s area of influence as…
Tausif Riyaz, CEO of Platinum Hern, the company behind Torres Jewellers, was arrested on Sunday at a hotel in Lonavala, Maharashtra, in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Torres Jewellery Rs 1,000 crore investment fraud, reported TOI citing police sources. After his arrest, Riyaz was presented before a court, which remanded him to police…
MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday said the State must register an FIR after a magistrate’s inquiry into the death of Akshay Shinde, the accused in the Badlapur school sexual assault case, found that five police personnel were responsible for his death. They are SPI Sanjay Shinde, API Nilesh More, head constables Abhijeet More and…
NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court has ruled that breaking off a relationship or refusing to marry does not constitute abetment of suicide under Section 306 of IPC. Delivering the judgment on Wednesday, Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke discharged the accused, Vaibhav Mawale, who was charged after his former partner died by suicide in 2020.The…
Rupali Ganguly and Sana Raees Khan Earlier last month, Rupali Ganguly through her lawyer, Sana Raees Khan, filed a defamation suit against her stepdaughter, Esha Verma in the Bombay High Court. According to Sana, the legal action was initiated to safeguard the actress’s integrity and reputation from baseless and malicious allegations. In a recent development,…
NEW DELHI: A case in Bombay high court led the judges to ask question whether intellectual disability has anything to do with becoming a mother. On Wednesday, the Bombay HC’s justices R V Ghuge and Rajesh Patil were considering a petition from a father seeking to terminate his 27-year-old daughter’s 21-week pregnancy, citing her unmarried…
