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While setting aside the conviction of a man for abetting a school girl's suicide, the Bombay high court ruled that just because he had illicit relations with her mother, it cannot be said that he instigated the girl to take the step.Justice VR Kingaonkar of the Aurangabad bench on December 2 set aside the conviction and sentence of Ravindra Gadge o...

Twelve years after he was arrested on the charges of robbery, a hawker has been acquitted by the Bombay High Court pointing out that the trial court erred in relying only on the recovery of gold, that too in melted form, to convict him.Justice VM Kanade heard the appeal, filed in 2001 by Harish Yadav (23), challenging the trial court's order, convi...

Can different pay scales be prescribed for two sets of employees performing the same duties on the basis of their educational qualification? Yes, says the Bombay high court, and adds that there is a "reasonable classification" which entitles a candidate with higher qualification to receive a higher pay scale. The division bench of justice PB Majmud...

Upholding the reinstatement of a school teacher, the Bombay High Court has held that it is the management and not the school committee which has the powers to terminate the services of an employee.Justice Nishita Mhatre passed the judgment on an appeal filed by Deccan Education Society challenging the order of the presiding officer, School Tribunal...

The Bombay high court has held that an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) engineer, who claimed to have been hounded and removed from service only because he was a whistle-blower, had in fact crossed all levels of organisational discipline.A division bench of justices BH Marlapalle and Amjad Sayed on Monday gave its verdict on a petition filed ...

Anjanabai Pendhare, a resident of a small village near Malegoan, will have to spend the next 10 years behind bars. For the past 13 years, she remained out of prison, even though she was accused of setting ablaze her 'savat' (husband's second wife) Jeejabai after a petty quarrel. But her luck ran out after the Bombay high court last month par...

The Bombay High Court has reduced the five-year imprisonment of a man who killed his neighbour in a fit of rage, after the deceased's mother said she has settled the matter.Justice VK Tahilramani in her October 13 judgment reduced the sentence to six months already served by Ramesh Ghate, a resident of Daund, Pune. He was convicted under Section 30...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday informed the Bombay high court that there are 51,576 recorded cases of forged university degree certificates used for pursing higher education and jobs in the state.The report was submitted to the division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice Dhananjay Chandrachud pursuant to an earlie...

A former airhostess of Air India has moved the Bombay high court against her "sudden" dismissal from service barely a fortnight before retirement.Rani Radhakrishnan who joined in June 1976  has challenged the July 15 order passed by chairman and managing director Arvind Jadhav, setting aside an earlier order of punishment and dismissing her fr...

General public has been barred from entering the Bombay High Court as part of measures to bolster security in a run-up to the hearing via video-conferencing of the confirmation of death sentence awarded to lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Kasab next week.A circular has been issued by registrar general MN Gilani on October 13 under ...

The Bombay high court has directed the government to appoint a woman police officer and investigate within 30 days the abuse of mentally challenged children at a private orphanage in Kavdas village, Thane.The court was hearing a PIL on the death of five mentally-challenged children due to malnutrition. The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Thane, wh...

The Bombay high court was informed on Tuesday by the police commissioner that a proposal has been sent to the state government to change a rule under the Bombay Police Act which states that a video parlour cannot exist within a radius of 75 metres of another.The statement was made on behalf of police commissioner Sanjeev Dayal before the division b...

While setting aside the conviction of a man for abetting a school girl's suicide, the Bombay high court ruled that just because he had illicit relations with her mother, it cannot be said that he instigated the girl to take the step.Justice VR Kingaonkar of the Aurangabad bench on December 2 set aside the conviction and sentence of Ravindra Gadge o...

Twelve years after he was arrested on the charges of robbery, a hawker has been acquitted by the Bombay High Court pointing out that the trial court erred in relying only on the recovery of gold, that too in melted form, to convict him.Justice VM Kanade heard the appeal, filed in 2001 by Harish Yadav (23), challenging the trial court's order, convi...

Can different pay scales be prescribed for two sets of employees performing the same duties on the basis of their educational qualification? Yes, says the Bombay high court, and adds that there is a "reasonable classification" which entitles a candidate with higher qualification to receive a higher pay scale. The division bench of justice PB Majmud...

Upholding the reinstatement of a school teacher, the Bombay High Court has held that it is the management and not the school committee which has the powers to terminate the services of an employee.Justice Nishita Mhatre passed the judgment on an appeal filed by Deccan Education Society challenging the order of the presiding officer, School Tribunal...

The Bombay high court has held that an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) engineer, who claimed to have been hounded and removed from service only because he was a whistle-blower, had in fact crossed all levels of organisational discipline.A division bench of justices BH Marlapalle and Amjad Sayed on Monday gave its verdict on a petition filed ...

Anjanabai Pendhare, a resident of a small village near Malegoan, will have to spend the next 10 years behind bars. For the past 13 years, she remained out of prison, even though she was accused of setting ablaze her 'savat' (husband's second wife) Jeejabai after a petty quarrel. But her luck ran out after the Bombay high court last month par...

The Bombay High Court has reduced the five-year imprisonment of a man who killed his neighbour in a fit of rage, after the deceased's mother said she has settled the matter.Justice VK Tahilramani in her October 13 judgment reduced the sentence to six months already served by Ramesh Ghate, a resident of Daund, Pune. He was convicted under Section 30...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday informed the Bombay high court that there are 51,576 recorded cases of forged university degree certificates used for pursing higher education and jobs in the state.The report was submitted to the division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice Dhananjay Chandrachud pursuant to an earlie...

A former airhostess of Air India has moved the Bombay high court against her "sudden" dismissal from service barely a fortnight before retirement.Rani Radhakrishnan who joined in June 1976  has challenged the July 15 order passed by chairman and managing director Arvind Jadhav, setting aside an earlier order of punishment and dismissing her fr...

General public has been barred from entering the Bombay High Court as part of measures to bolster security in a run-up to the hearing via video-conferencing of the confirmation of death sentence awarded to lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Kasab next week.A circular has been issued by registrar general MN Gilani on October 13 under ...

The Bombay high court has directed the government to appoint a woman police officer and investigate within 30 days the abuse of mentally challenged children at a private orphanage in Kavdas village, Thane.The court was hearing a PIL on the death of five mentally-challenged children due to malnutrition. The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Thane, wh...

The Bombay high court was informed on Tuesday by the police commissioner that a proposal has been sent to the state government to change a rule under the Bombay Police Act which states that a video parlour cannot exist within a radius of 75 metres of another.The statement was made on behalf of police commissioner Sanjeev Dayal before the division b...