Maharashtra government on Wednesday informed the Bombay high court that all municipal corporations in the state have been asked to incorporate the provisions of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition) Act in the license agreements of restaurants and eating joints, which means a complete ban on sale of hookah and other tobacco products at these places.
Justice Roshan Dalvi sought to recuse herself from the case involving Reliance Industries Ltd and state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation over the supply of gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin on Wednesday.
The Maharashtra government will move Supreme Court against the Bombay high court decision striking down the ordinance banning dance bars.
A division Bench of Justices S Radhakrishnan and Roshan Dalvi took exception to the letter by a British NGO 'Fair Trials Abroad' to the chief justice. The NGO had stated that they wanted to engage British lawyers to represent Grant (63) and Waters (59) before the High Court. "We don't want communication from other agencies. You can't write such letters to the court," Justice Radhakrishnan noted and added, "Tell your clients that we are no more their colony."
The Bombay high court on Monday deferred till August 16 a petition filed by 1993 serial bomb blast accused Abu Salem challenging a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court's order to separate his trial from other accused.
The Bombay high court Monday rejected a petition filed by a prime accused in the 2003 Mulund bomb blast case pleading that he and 12 others be set at liberty as their detention under Prevention of Terrorism Act was illegal.
The court also asked extradited gangster Abu Salem's to move the Supreme Court against the separation of the his case from the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
In a significant order regarding implementation of conditional access system in Mumbai, a civil court has restrained cable operators from charging more than Rs 110 (i.e. Rs 72 plus taxes) per month from subscribers in the suburbs.
Top women lawyers spoke in favour of grranting more protection to victims of domestic violence.
Broker Hiten Dalal and Canara Bank Mutual Fund's former General Manager B R Acharya have been sentence to one year imprisonment.
A little over a year after the death of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, his sons Uddhav and Jaidev are locked in a legal row over property worth crores left behind by the party patriarch.
The court observed this while finding a man guilty of outraging the modesty of his brother's wife. In this regard, the judge relied entirely upon the evidence given by the victim.
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