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Justice Sandeep V. Marne set aside the Competent Authority's refusal and remanded the application with a direction to issue the deemed conveyance certificate.
Justice N.J. Jamadar held that a copy reaching someone on behalf of the advocate does not discharge the statutory obligation, and declared the petition not time-barred.
Justice Aarti Sathe declines to interfere with an eviction from a Wagle Industrial Estate plot, distinguishing a tax case in which the authorities had changed grounds between the show cause notice and the final order.
Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan holds that a body functioning as an agent of the State Government under Section 113(3A) of the MRTP Act stands in no better position than any implementing partner, and that bearing the cost of an award confers no independent status.
A Division Bench of Justices M. S. Karnik and Sandesh D. Patil hold that the Corporation's own resolution appointing the petitioners and its approved proposal for their regularisation must weigh in their favour, and grant arrears from 1 October 2016.
A Division Bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Ashish S. Chavan dismiss two petitions challenging an arbitrator appointed by the Central Registrar, holding that a declaration under Section 12 of the Arbitration Act was on record and that multiple references from one bank create no bar.
Justice Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale holds that apart from stating the petitioner's designation the complaint contains no averment at all, that vicarious liability provisions must be strictly construed, and that continuing the prosecution would be an abuse of process.
Justice Hiten S. Venegavkar releases a murder accused forthwith with no bail bond and no surety, holds the arrest and all custody founded on it vitiated under Article 22(1) and Section 47 of the BNSS, and directs the Director General of Police to review the forms in use.
Justice Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale refused relief under Section 482, holding that the planning authority had itself doubted the plan and that a civil remedy does not bar a criminal case.
Justice Sandeep V. Marne rejects the workmen's case on functional integrality and Section 25-FFA, but extends 1999 voluntary retirement benefits to all 85 of them without adjustment.
Justices A.S. Gadkari and Kamal Khata hold that Chapter 10 of the UDCPR does not displace the planning authority's power to relax, while recording that the petitioner's RTI queries were answered belatedly and vaguely.
A Division Bench quashes the State's insistence on a fresh test, grants permanency within two weeks, and asks the government to end long-term contractual hiring across municipal corporations.
Justice N.J. Jamadar held that transferring interim custody of a girl raised since infancy by a non-guardian stranger would harm her welfare, even though her biological parents retain legal rights.
Bombay High Court sets aside a trial court order adding an assignee as co-plaintiff, holding that a deed of assignment executed before the suit was filed cannot justify impleadment under Order I Rule 10 CPC.
The Bombay High Court continued ad-interim protection for applicant Suryakant Yewale and directed the DGP and investigating officer to file replies in a government land purchase case.
The Bombay High Court held that a dependent mother cannot be denied family pension merely because her deceased bachelor son had surviving married sisters, reading down Explanation I to Rule 116(16)(b)(iv) of Maharashtra's Pension Rules.
The Bombay High Court told food safety authorities that suspensions must be revoked automatically on compliance, without forcing businesses to return to court each time.
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench found two Akola police officers violated Article 21 by arresting a 26-year-old student without communicating grounds of arrest, then making false statements to the court about seizing his mobile phone.
The Bombay High Court held that the four-attempt cap under Regulation 21 of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations 2023 applies to the entire First Professional MBBS year, not individual subjects.
Justice Sandeep Marne lays down a cause-of-action test to determine whether court fees under the Maharashtra Court Fees Act must be paid per petitioner or per petition in joint writ petitions.
The Bombay High Court dismissed a brother's second appeal, holding that while a coparcener may orally relinquish ancestral property rights, the burden of proving such relinquishment rests squarely on the party asserting it.
Justice Milind N. Jadhav quashed a decade-old criminal intimidation FIR, finding a 19-year-old XII standard student had no criminal intent when confronted by a mob at a chawl in Dadar.
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench upheld police refusal of a proposed Kavad Yatra route, holding that no fundamental right entitles an organiser to insist on a particular road for a religious procession.
Justice Sandeep Marne rules that an ICC email ruling out a sexual element without any inquiry still constitutes a Section 13(2) recommendation, making an appeal under Section 18 of the POSH Act maintainable.
