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The Bombay High Court confirmed the disqualification of three managing committee members of a co-operative housing society who failed to supply demanded documents for 263 to 377 days despite four interventions by the Deputy Registrar.
Justice Farhan Dubash dismissed an interim application seeking protection of properties claimed as HUF assets, finding the plaintiffs presented no cogent evidence and contradictory legal foundations.
Justice Madhav Jamdar sets aside externment orders against an SDPI office-bearer, holding that leading morchas against Union government decisions cannot justify externment under the Maharashtra Police Act.
A Nagpur student's plea calling the Sikh turban exemption from helmet rules unconstitutional class legislation was dismissed by the Nagpur Bench.
The Bombay High Court's Kolhapur Bench held that Section 207 CrPC, which governs document supply after a charge sheet, cannot be read into Section 50 obligations at the time of arrest.
The Bombay High Court quashed a Section 498-A prosecution against a woman accused solely on suspicion of an extramarital affair with the complainant's husband, finding no specific act of cruelty.
The Bombay High Court partly allowed a quashing petition, discharging the wife's mother and brother from a 2017 FIR while refusing to quash proceedings against the wife herself, who had admitted contracting a second marriage while her first was subsisting.
Eight advocate-petitioners who failed the District Judge preliminary exam challenged the recruitment process as illegal because the governing rule amendments had not yet been published in the Official Gazette when the advertisement was issued.
A Division Bench dismissed a minor's RTE admission petition after a State inspection found no evidence of actual residence at the address submitted, revealing four conflicting addresses across documents.
Bombay High Court rules that the Competent Authority under the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act has full power to examine the legality of dues demanded before ordering eviction of an allottee.
The Bombay High Court at Goa held that the DMA lacks jurisdiction under Section 44 of the Goa Municipalities Act to remove a Councillor, as that quasi-judicial power belongs solely to the State Government.
The Nagpur Bench held that Section 41A of the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950 confers only administrative powers and does not extend to interfering with a trust's election process once commenced.
A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court allowed a married woman at 26 weeks and 11 days to terminate her pregnancy after a multi-specialist Medical Board unanimously advised it.
Justice Sandeep Marne held that bringing policemen to interrogate a bank officer and filing complaints with outside authorities were not perverse findings by the Enquiry Officer, restoring the charges against the dismissed clerk.
Finding the complainant had filed ten FIRs against different men since 2011 and deliberately avoided service, the Bombay High Court quashed a 2019 Section 376 FIR registered at Sahar Police Station.
Justice Farhan Dubash held that a housing society cannot bypass a final rejection order by filing a second deemed conveyance application before the same Competent Authority under MOFA.
The Bombay High Court set aside a 2020 order cancelling a Charity Commissioner's sanction for a trust property transaction, ruling that Section 36(2) permits revocation only on proof of fraud, not on reassessment of the original decision.
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench held that compensatory afforestation at a distant location cannot substitute for trees cut from Khamla and directed the Tree Authority to identify nearby plantation sites.
A hacker calling itself a "cyber criminal" breached databases of an educational trust, demanded USD 750,000, then leaked children's mental health records to a parent.
Justice M.M. Sathaye upholds concurrent findings recognising a first cousin as heir-tenant under section 5(11)(c)(i) of the Bombay Rent Act, reading the provision's two parts as disjunctive.
Justice Sandeep Marne set aside a Rs. 5 lakh compensation award, ruling that a driver's vulgar remarks about fisherwomen warranted dismissal and could not be rewarded.
Bombay High Court dismisses writ petition challenging confiscation of a vehicle found carrying 60 bags of charcoal without a valid forest transit pass, rejecting all grounds including natural justice and conviction-as-prerequisite arguments.
The Bombay High Court quashed an Internal Committee order against an SBI employee, holding that a shared public autorickshaw cannot be a "workplace" under the Sexual Harassment Act.
The Bombay High Court held that Tenure "D" land held in perpetuity under pre-independence revenue law is freely transferable, making the State's 75% transfer premium levy illegal.
