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Bombay High Court Hears Confirmation of Death Sentence and Criminal Appeal in Case Involving Kidnapping, Unnatural Offence and Murder of a Minor Boy. Trial Court Convicted Accused Under Sections 302, 377, 364 and 367 IPC and Imposed Death Penalty, Which Required Automatic Confirmation by the High Court....

The case originates from a kidnapping and murder of a two-and-half-year-old boy, Golu, who went missing on 14 May 2010 from Surendragarh, Nagpur. The boy's father, Ganesh Chaudhari, lodged a missing r...

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Bombay High Court Allows Petitioner's Challenge to Magistrate's Order Directing Verification Under Section 200 CrPC After Order Under Section 156(3) CrPC. Pre-Cognizance Investigation Order Under Section 156(3) CrPC Precludes Post-Cognizance Verification Under Section 200 CrPC as Stages Are Mutually Exclusive....

The petitioner, Amish Jayant Dharod, filed a criminal writ petition challenging an order of the learned Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, 2nd Court, Mazgaon, Mumbai, which directed the petitioner to...

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Bombay High Court Allows Appeal Against Setting Aside of Arbitral Award on Ground Not Raised by Petitioner. Court holds that a party cannot challenge an arbitral award on a ground that only aggrieves the opposite party, who has not challenged the award....

The appeal arose from an order of a learned single Judge on a petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 filed by the respondent, Prabhudas Lilladher Pvt. Ltd., a member o...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition of Trust and School Seeking Grant-in-Aid, Upholds State Policy Barring New Grants. Policy of no new grants to primary schools held constitutional and not violative of Article 14 or Article 21A....

The petitioners, M/s. Ujjwal Shikshan Sanstha (a public trust) and M/s. Anudatta Vidyalaya Hindi Primary School, filed a writ petition seeking a mandamus directing the respondents (Municipal Corporati...

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Bombay High Court Grants Decree in Favour of Plaintiff in Trademark Infringement and Passing Off Action — Defendant's Mark 'EASY WASH' Held Deceptively Similar to Plaintiff's Registered Mark 'EZEE' for Liquid Detergent....

The Plaintiff, Godrej Consumer Products Limited, filed a suit for trademark infringement and passing off against Alchemy Biotech Private Limited. The Plaintiff is the proprietor of the registered trad...

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Bombay High Court Allows Student's Petition for Revaluation of Answer Book in Engineering Examination. University directed to get answer book revalued by an independent expert as per Ordinance 134-A....

The petitioner, Sagar Shantaram Patil, a student of R.C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur, affiliated to North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Con...

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Bombay High Court Acquits Accused in Dowry Death Case Due to Lack of Evidence of Demand for Dowry and Absence of Proximate Cause of Death. Conviction under Sections 302 and 498A IPC set aside as prosecution failed to prove cruelty or abetment to suicide beyond reasonable doubt....

The appellants, Annasaheb Dhondiram Dhokane, Jijabai Dhondiram Dhokane, Kumari Bharti Dhondiram Dhokane, and Sau Meera Raosaheb Dod, were convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Ahmednagar, on 11 ...

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High Court of Karnataka Acquits Accused in Dowry Death Case Due to Lack of Evidence of Abetment to Suicide. Conviction under Sections 498A and 306 IPC set aside as prosecution failed to prove cruelty or instigation leading to suicide....

The appellant, Babu, was convicted by the II Additional Sessions Judge, Gulbarga, for offences under Sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, for allegedly subjecting his wife Laxmi to cr...

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High Court of Karnataka Dismisses Indian Oil Corporation's Writ Petition Seeking to Restrain Union from Holding Strike/Agitation. Court holds that right to strike is a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution of India, subject to reasonable restrictions, and that the petitioner failed to establish any imminent threat or breach of peace....

The petitioner, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, a Government of India Undertaking, filed writ petitions under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India seeking a direction to the first respond...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition Challenging Bank's Cancellation of Candidature Due to Conviction Despite Probation. Section 12 of Probation of Offenders Act Does Not Override Disqualification Under Section 10(1)(b)(i) of Banking Regulations Act, 1949 for Conviction Involving Moral Turpitude....

The petitioner, Amit Mohod, applied for a clerical post in the Bank of India. During the recruitment process, it was revealed that he had been convicted under Section 379 read with Section 34 IPC for ...