Prateem Rohanekar

Mumbai

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Pune teen arrested for posting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ on social media moves HC for bail

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: A 19-year-old engineering student from Pune, arrested earlier this month over a social media post allegedly supportive of Pakistan during heightened Indo-Pak tensions under Operation Sindoor, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking bail to appear for her upcoming examinations. The student has also filed a separate petition challenging her college’s decision to rusticate her, calling it “arbitrary” and a “gross violation” of her fundamental rights.
HC acts against Thane Dy Collector for hurried compensation disbursal

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has directed disciplinary proceedings against the Thane Deputy Collector (Land Acquisition) for hurriedly disbursing around ₹12 crore in compensation in a case where six agriculturalists had allegedly falsely claimed to be owners of the land. The direction was given by a division bench comprising Justice MS Sonak and Justice Jitendra Jain, which was hearing a land dispute case.
Bombay high court suspends LOC against Manish Mandhana

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently allowed Manish Mandhana, former director of Mandhana Industries Ltd accused in a money laundering case, to travel to New York and London while suspending the lookout circular issued against him. A division-bench of justice A S Chandurkar and justice Dr Neela Gokhale were listening to a plea by the textile magnate on May 9 seeking permission to travel to New York to attend his son’s convocation ceremony and then USA to London to meet his daughter.
HC constitutes special bench to hear pleas challenging Maratha reservation

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday constituted a three-judge bench to hear a batch of petitions challenging the 10% reservation granted to the Maratha community under the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, 2024. The bench will comprise justices Ravindra Ghuge, NJ Jamadar and Sandeep Marne.
HC deprecates revenue authorities for ‘harassing’ 1971 war veteran

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has strongly criticised the Maharashtra revenue department for harassing an 82-year-old retired Army Naik who was wounded in the 1971 India-Pakistan war, over the delayed allotment of land promised to him more than five decades ago.
Eight years on, HC upholds ₹62L compensation to family of SRK’s production house employee

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.