A division bench of Justices J N Patel and K K Tated said that the new agreement should be as per the memorandum of understanding between the Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil. The MoU stipulates that RIL would supply 28 mmscmd of gas to RNRL for 17 years at the rate of $2.43 per million British Thermal Units.
Observing that the law takes a stern view of crimes such as rape, the Bombay High Court upheld the conviction of 20 accused in the rape case of a 16-year-old school student who was allegedly drugged by her neighbour, sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution.
The Bombay High Court today constituted an interim committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge B N Srikrishna to recommend measures to the government with a view to preventing recurrence of last month's terror attacks in the city.
Observing that nobody can "hold the people to ransom", the Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray and his party members from indulging in violence or making provocative speeches over Marathi signboards issue.
Gaikwad's bail application came up before Justice C V Bhadang who adjourned the matter to July 11 with the mutual consent of the accused and the prosecution.
Seven accused in the Adarsh scam have moved the Bombay High Court stating the Enforcement Directorate's case against them for money laundering is not "sustainable" as provisions of anti-money laundering law were not in force at the time of commission of the alleged offence.
'Aryan Khan has ultimately been released on bail by Bombay HC. No possession, no evidence, no consumption, no conspiracy, right from the first moment when he was detained on Oct 2! Satyamev Jayate,' the team said.
Maharashtra government has requested the Centre to rename the Bombay high court as the High Court, Mumbai, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Tuesday.
A division bench of justices R M Sawant and Sadhana Jadhav was on Monday hearing a public interest litigation by Pune resident Pradeep Bhalekar challenging the regular paroles and furloughs granted to Dutt when he was serving his sentence.
The Maharashtra government has appointed retired Bombay High Court judge M G Gaikwad to conduct an inquiry into the Maval firing in August which killed three farmers. Gaikwad has been asked to submit his report in three months. In August, farmers' demonstration against a drinking water supply scheme from the Pavana dam to Pimpri-Chinchwad city turned violent. Policemen fired upon the protesting farmers, killing three of them.
In a major setback to National Investigation Agency, the Bombay High Court today granted bail to two accused in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, after observing that there was no material to connect the duo to the blast.
Bombay HC stays proposed Metro fare hike till Jan 29.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed that all disputes arising out of the collapsed Jet-Sahara deal
The Bombay High Court, on Tuesday, said the Indian Premier League has made people familiar with phrases like "betting and fixing" and in view of the alleged violations of foreign exchange rules it is time to see if the tournament is in interest of the game of cricket.
In an interim order, the Bombay High Court has stayed a government decision to ban surrogacy for foreign couples who have already reached the end of the process or are in the crucial stage of treatment.
The Bombay high court on Monday refused to grant interim stay on ban on slaughter of bulls and sale of their meat during the Muslim festival of Bakri Eid.
The Bombay High Court has refused relief to a foreign national, who had challenged the denial of employment visa on the ground that it violated her fundamental rights.
A division bench of the Bombay high court recently went out of its way to settle an unexpected conflict between a newly married Hindu-Muslim couple from Jammu. When Daljeet Chand from Jammu eloped with his childhood sweetheart Waziran and got married in Mumbai, he had braced for stiff opposition from the bride's conservative and influential family. What he had not bargained for was that Waziran would threaten to walk out on him barely a month of their marriage.
Munde, the Women and Child Development minister, has been accused of irregularities in procurement of items worth Rs 206 crore including chikki.
On April 28 this year, the civic body issued notice to Sharma under section 351 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, claiming that certain constructions in the 18-storey residential building 'DLH Enclave' in Goregaon, in which the actor has a flat, were illegal and hence will have to be razed down.
The much awaited verdict on the 2006 Khairlanji Dalit massacre case was deferred by a month by the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Tuesday, as one of Judges was pre-occupied with an assignment.
Raising questions over "conflict of interest" if a minister is a member of a cricket body, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed impleading the Union Government in a PIL seeking levy of entertainment tax on Indian Premier League matches and allowed making Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar a party to the case.
Maharashtra's Director of Health Subhash Salunkhe told the court that 1,041 children had died over the last two months on account of various reasons, including malnutrition.
Terming the rape and murder of a "defenceless" minor girl as the "ultimate insult to womanhood", the Bombay high court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a 22-year-old youth after it held that the case fell under the "rarest of rare" category.
The Bombay High Court on Friday upheld a lower court's order discharging former Mumbai police commissioner Ram Deo Tyagi and eight others, but observed that the firing in Suleiman Bakery by the police during the 1993 Mumbai riots was 'cruel and atrocious'.Justice Mridula Bhatkar upheld the trial court's conclusion that Tyagi -- a joint commissioner at the time -- and eight other policemen had no intention to murder. Eight persons were killed and 12 injured in the firing.
A petition was today filed in the Bombay high court seeking direction to the city police to register an FIR against Mumbai police chief and others over a poem in their house journal which termed last year's Azad Maidan protesters as "snakes" and "traitors" whose hands should be "chopped off".
On Oct 14, the Maharashtra unit of FDA had ordered recall of entire stock of Kachha Mango Bite from the marketplace.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday refused to grant pre-arrest bail to former Congress MP Nilesh Rane in a case of alleged assault and kidnapping
The Bombay High Court on Monday suggested to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Deccan Chronicles Holdings Ltd to settle their dispute over termination of IPL franchise by referring the matter to a mutually acceptable arbitrator.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday gave Maharashtra Government ten more days to appoint the new state police chief after the government submitted that it had sought confirmation of the new appointee from Election Commission, in view of the code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls.
A division bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing a bunch of public interest litigations in the Adarsh scam case and also the application of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan who has sought quashing of the corruption case against him.
Affirming his government's commitment to working with judiciary for improving delivery of justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that the Law Commission is looking at improvements required in the court procedures for a better criminal judicial system.
Expressing anguish over the move to recite "Hanuman chalisa" at an AIDS awareness programme, the Bombay high court has asked the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Nagpur Municipal Corporation if, according to it, "India is for Hindus only".
Aamir Khan's Ghajini will release in theatres on schedule on December 25, as the Bombay High Court refused to stay its release. The hearing has been adjourned until December 26.
Observing that there is no law that can prohibit an adult from taking decisions pertaining to his life, the Bombay High Court on Monday gave its nod to Guwahati student Bhidan Bharua to undergo sex change surgery.
An expert committee of doctors, appointed to examine the case had said the foetus has "a fair chance" of having a congenital handicap at birth. A committee of doctors appointed by the J J Hospital dean however stated that "the findings observed do not have substantive significance to resort to termination of pregnancy".
After being rapped for 'sloppy investigations' in the Adarsh society scam case, the Central Bureau of Investigation finally seems to have got its act together. After several high profile arrests, the CBI joint director has now informed that the "Bombay high court is satisfied with the investigations so far."
The Bombay high court slammed the CBI for not initiating action against government officials involved in the Adarsh society land scam.
Refusing to interfere in policy decisions, the Bombay high court on Wednesday said it was not inclined to grant a stay on the upcoming civic elections in Maharashtra.
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