Prateem Rohanekar

Mumbai

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Eight years on, HC upholds ₹62L compensation to family of SRK’s production house employee

2 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has upheld a compensation of ₹62.2 lakh awarded by the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT), Mumbai, to the family of Charu Khandal, a former character animator at Red Chillies Entertainment—Shah Rukh Khan’s production house—who sustained severe spinal injuries in a 2012 road accident and died nearly five years later.
HC allows BMC to construct cable-stayed bridge across Oshiwara creek

2 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on May 7 directed the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority to allow the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to construct a bridge on Oshiwara Creek, connecting Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar to Millat Nagar Road which includes felling of 31 mangroves.
Clear stand on heritage tag for Savarkar Sadan: HC to State

5 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday directed the state government to clarify its stand on granting heritage status to Savarkar Sadan, the erstwhile residence of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in Shivaji Park. The direction was issued while the division bench of justices AS Chandurkar and Dr Neela Gokhale was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by self-proclaimed public policy think tank Abhinav Bharat Congress.
Deemed conveyance can’t be denied due to delay on part of the builder: HC

5 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: In a significant ruling strengthening the rights of homebuyers, the Bombay high court (HC) on Friday held that a developer’s failure to complete a housing project within the stipulated time cannot be used as a reason to deny flat owners their right to deemed conveyance under the Maharashtra Ownership Flats Act (MOFA), 1963.
HC orders survey of alleged encroachments on IIT Bombay land

6 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the collector of the Mumbai Suburban district to survey a plot of land belonging to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Powai, after a petition alleged that unauthorised persons had encroached upon it.
HC contemplates committee for conservation of Thane flamingo sanctuary

6 days ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday expressed the need for constituting a committee to monitor conservation activities in the Thane Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, a habitat for flamingos and one of three sites designated as “wetlands of international importance” in Maharashtra under the Ramsar Convention, 1971.
10 years on, high court regularises admission of 93 BHMS students

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has regularised the admission of 93 students in Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) courses in multiple homeopathic colleges across the state which did not follow the admission process outlined in the NEET-UG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate) 2013 national brochure.
HC takes up suo-motu cognisance of delays in adoption process

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday took suo-motu (on its own) cognisance of a media report highlighting that prospective parents in India have to wait for an average of three-and-a-half years to adopt infants and young children. A division bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice MS Karnik sought a response from the Centre, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), and other relevant authorities on the matter.
Akshay Shinde encounter killing: SC orders DGP to constitute SIT, supervise probe

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Monday accepted the Maharashtra government’s demand to get director general of police (DGP) Rashmi Shukla to pick the special investigation team (SIT) to probe the encounter killing of Akshay Shinde, the arrested accused in the August 2024 Badlapur school sexual assaults case. The apex court modified the Bombay high court’s order asking Mumbai crime branch chief Lakhmi Gautam to constitute the SIT.
HC orders BMC to survey ‘illegal’ mosque in Oshiwara

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

The high court directed the assistant commissioner of K West ward to conduct a survey of the plot and decide on the legality of the structures thereon after hearing all parties within 10 weeks Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to survey a playground in Oshiwara and ascertain if a mosque and madrassa had been constructed there illegally.