Animal Lovers ‘relieved’ At Sc Order On Feeding, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Animal feeders and activists have expressed happiness and “huge relief” while reacting to the latest Supreme Court stay on the order of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court which had prohibited the public feeding of stray dogs. Elated animal lovers said that the latest direction of...

HC issues notice to Bar Council of India on PIL against court vacations, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] Mumbai, The Bombay High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Bar Council of India (BCI) seeking its response on a plea challenging the practice of courts taking long vacations, thereby affecting hearing of cases. A bench of Justices SV Gangapurwala and SG Dige noted that the expectation...

Hc To Nmc, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] Nagpur: Expressing concern over the way stray dogs were kept in cramped cages, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the civic body to explain why these animals were detained and then released.The directives came while hearing two intervention applications filed in the case lodged by...

Four days after SC order, surety papers keep Gautam Navlakha in jail, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] MUMBAI: The defence for activist Gautam Navlakha recently told the special NIA court that the office of the Navi Mumbai police commissioner had refused to accept a demand draft of Rs 2.4 lakh which they had furnished in compliance with a Supreme Court order allowing him to be placed...

Sc Orders Status Quo On Nair Land, Hearing In 4 Wks, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] MUMBAI: The Bombay high court had last month directed Rubberwala Developers Private Limited (now Rubberwala Housing and Infrastructure Limited) to vacate the plot in Mumbai Central that had been earmarked for the extension of Nair Hospital which is run by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The builder moved the Supreme Court...

SC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka came down heavily on the Centre for “sitting on” names recommended for judgeship by the SC collegium, even when some recommendations were repeatedly reiterated.“We may notice that among names for which reconsideration was sought...

ED withdraws plea in Bombay HC on businessman case probe transfer, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers withdrew their plea before the Bombay High Court that had sought transfer of probe against businessman Jitendra Navlani and others in extortion and corruption case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)The ED withdrawal came after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Maharashtra government on...

Bombay HC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on November 9 held that a June 30 resolution passed at the meeting of the executive committee of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) to dissolve and supersede the executive committee of the Maharashtra State Wrestling Association (MSWA) was "unreasonable, illegal and unenforceable.'' The...

Bombay HC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] NAGPUR: Holding that the administrative and procedural lapses would be insufficient to raise strong suspicion in absence of material to suggest that the petitioner acted with fraudulent intent, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court quashed all charges levelled against Sanjay Kholapurkar. He was Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s former...