Source: downtoearth.org.in Bombay High Court has on October 4, 2019, dismissed petitions to declare Aarey Colony in Mumbai as forest and refused to stop felling of more than 2,500 trees for metro car shed project, according to media reports. Aarey, situated in Goregaon, is famous among nature enthusiasts for being the green lungs of the city. It houses 2,702
Source: news18.com Thane: A Thane court has sentenced a woman to seven years rigourous imprisonment for sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter of her live-in partner. District Judge D G Murumkar also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the 33-year-old woman, a resident of Mumbra town in Thane district. In the order on October 1,
Source: ndtv.com MUMBAI: Amid a raging row over felling of trees for a metro car shed in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court on Monday quipped how the government would manage ecology when it cannot handle the national economy with best resources at its disposal. The remark was made by a division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep
Source: hindustantimes.com The Bombay high court (HC) has received 74 petitions from students from the scheduled tribe (ST) communities alleging that their constitutional right has been deprived because they were denied documents that entitled them to quota seats. Admissions to undergraduate medical and dental courses have been on hold for more than three weeks now
Source: indiatoday.in conomic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police on Monday filed an FIR against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and 69 others in the multi-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam case. The FIR was filed on the direction of the Bombay High Court. The high
Source: dnaindia.com The Maharashtra government’s petition against an order of the Bombay High Court that tied the hands of the state’s planning authorities from regularising any unauthorised construction got admitted in the Supreme Court on Friday. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose issued notice on
Source – dnaindia.com The Delhi High Court on Monday appeared disinclined to stay the elections in the cricketing body DDCA, saying once the poll process has started it cannot be put on hold. A vacation bench of Justices Vinod Goel and Rekha Palli was also of the view that the plea seeking stay of the DDCA
Source:- intoday.in The ‘Bharatiya Bargirls Union’, an association of women dancers, waitresses, singers and other performers working in bars and hotels in Maharashtra, has challenged the constitutional validity of a 2016 state law putting conditions on dance performances. Saying the new Act “stigmatised their work”, the Bharatiya Bargirls Union has termed it arbitrary and violative
Source – ndtv.com MUMBAI: Bus services in Maharashtra resumed today morning after employees of the state road transport corporation called off their strike. The decision was made late on Friday night by a core committee of the employees’ union. Yesterday, the Bombay High Court had termed the protest by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation or MSRTC
