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Bombay High Court Upholds Dismissal of BARC Engineer for Sanctioning Non-Existent Works and Causing Financial Loss to Government. The court held that the punishment of dismissal was proportionate to the gravity of the charges of fraud and cheating proved in the departmental inquiry....

The petitioner, Madhukar G. Wagh, was initially appointed in May 1958 as a Senior Scientific Assistant in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Government of India. He was promoted over time and i...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Life Conviction for Murder of Daughter Based on Circumstantial Evidence and Motive of Suspected Infidelity. Appellant's Suspicion of Wife's Infidelity Led to Killing of Two-and-a-Half-Year-Old Daughter by Drowning in Well, Conviction Under Section 302 IPC Confirmed....

The appellant, Raju Kisan Mane, was convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for the murder of his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Aishwarya. The prosecution case was that the appellant s...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Conviction of Husband for Murder by Burning Wife — Dying Declaration Found Credible. Life imprisonment under Section 302 IPC and three years under Section 498-A IPC confirmed....

The appellant, Eknath s/o Bhagwan Hatkar, was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Jalgaon for the murder of his wife Anita under Section 302 IPC and for cruelty under Section 498-A IPC. The ma...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Life Conviction for Murder in Knife Attack Over Debt Dispute. Appellant convicted under Section 302 IPC for fatal blow with a 'Katti' on chest of deceased due to non-payment of Rs.2000 balance for auto rickshaw damage....

The appellant, Charansing @ Chnya s/o Indersing Kadewale, was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nanded, for the murder of Vitthal Pawar under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and ...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Landlords' Writ Petitions in Tenancy Dispute, Upholds Tenants' Purchase Rights Under Bombay Tenancy Act. The heirs of a widow landlord failed to prove personal requirement for possession under Section 31 and to file a timely application under Section 32F, resulting in the tenants being declared purchasers of the agricultural land....

The dispute arose from four tenancy applications filed in 1974 by the original landlady, Bhimabai Sitaram Bang, a widow on the tillers' day (01-04-1957), under Sections 31, 14, 25 and 29 of the Bombay...

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Bombay High Court Adjudicates Writ Petitions Seeking Dereservation of Reserved Plot Under Section 127 of Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act. Dispute Centers on Whether Purchasers of Final Plot Have Locus Standi to Issue Purchase Notice and Whether Failure to Acquire Land Within Six Months Results in Automatic Dereservation....

The Bombay High Court heard a batch of four writ petitions involving a common question of law and fact arising from the Jalgaon Town Planning Scheme II. The background involved a declaration of intent...

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High Court Dismisses Petition in CWJC No.8989 of 1994 — No Order Required. The court found that the existing order from 27.7.2010 was sufficient to address the matters raised in the petition....

The case involved a petition filed under CWJC No.8989 of 1994 by Smt. Victoria Saxena and others against the State of Bihar and others. The court reviewed the situation in light of an earlier order da...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Insurer’s Pay-and-Recover Direction in Motor Accident Claim Appeals. Direction to Pay Compensation First and Then Recover from Owner/Driver Upheld Under Principles of National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Swaran Singh....

The Oriental Insurance Company Limited filed three first appeals before the Bombay High Court against the common judgment and award dated 24 March 2009 and the separate award dated 30 March 2009 passe...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Interim Maintenance to Wife Despite Husband's Claim of Talaq in Restitution of Conjugal Rights Proceedings. Mere assertion of divorce does not defeat wife's claim for interim maintenance; husband must prove factum of divorce....

The petitioner-husband and respondent-wife were married on 22.12.2006 under Islamic Law. The wife filed Petition No. A889/2008 before Family Court No. 4, Nagpur under Section 281 of Mohammedan Law for...