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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition Challenging Mutation Entry Correction in Land Records — Correction of Survey Numbers in Mutation Entries Does Not Require Notice to Parties Under Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966....

The petitioners, Jibhau Sukhdev Deore and others, filed a writ petition challenging the correction of survey numbers in mutation entries by the revenue authorities. The dispute pertained to land in vi...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition Challenging Mutation Entry in Land Records Due to Delay and Laches. Petitioners Failed to Establish Possession or Title Over Disputed Land, and Alternative Remedy of Civil Suit Was Available Under Section 149 of Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966....

The petitioners, Jibhau Sukhdev Deore and others, filed a writ petition challenging the mutation entry made in the revenue records in favor of respondent No.1, Vishwas Ramchandra Dighavkar, in respect...

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Bombay High Court Upholds School Tribunal's Decision Setting Aside Promotion of Junior NT(C) Candidate and Directing Promotion of Senior SC Candidate to ST Vacancy. Reservation interchangeability between SC and ST categories applied to fill ST vacancy in promotion post....

The case involves two writ petitions challenging a common judgment of the School Tribunal dated 19 April 2018. The Tribunal had set aside the promotion of Vilas Machhindra Chormale (petitioner in WP 6...

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Bombay High Court Allows Developers' Challenge to PMC's Differential Development Charges Policy. Held that imposing higher development charges on properties within 100 meters of DP road while exempting others violates Article 14 of the Constitution....

The petitioners, a group of developers and a real estate association, challenged the policy of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that imposed higher development charges on properties located within...

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Bombay High Court Examines Legality of Collector's Three Demands in Writ Petition Against Order Dated 10.10.2022. Petitioner challenges levy of unearned income, differential lease rent and 25% conversion charges computed at 2022 market value for change of user from industrial to residential under Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 and Conversion Rules, 2019....

By way of background, the dispute pertained to a leasehold plot in Santacruz (West), Mumbai, originally categorised in the service industrial zone and later notified for residential use. The State Gov...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Plaintiff in Testamentary Suit Regarding Validity of Holograph Will; Executor's Widow Granted Letters of Administration with Will Annexed. Court Finds Will Duly Executed Under Section 63(c) of Indian Succession Act, 1925 and Rejects Allegations of Undue Influence and Suspicious Circumstances....

The litigation concerned the testamentary estate of late R Kannamal, who died in Mumbai on 1 March 2003. She was the mother of the plaintiff and defendant, and the widow of former Supreme Court Judge ...

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Bombay High Court Allows Revision Application and Discharges Accused in Corruption Case Due to Lack of Sanction for Prosecution. The court held that sanction under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 is mandatory for prosecuting a public servant, and its absence vitiates the proceedings....

The case involves a criminal revision application filed by Sunil Achyutrao Thete, who was charged with offences under Sections 7, 12, 15, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, ...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Petition Challenging Height Restrictions Near Air Force Station — Height Restrictions Imposed Under Aircraft Act, 1934 Upheld as Reasonable and Not Arbitrary. The court held that the restrictions are necessary for flight safety and national security, and the refusal to grant NOC for construction beyond 15 meters is valid....

The petitioners, Trinity Landmarks LLP and its designated partner Shravan Agarwal, owned lands in Bhugaon, Taluka Mulshi, District Pune, and sought to develop them. They challenged the height restrict...

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Bombay High Court Allows Revision in Domestic Violence Case — Sets Aside Concurrent Dismissal of Complaint Under Section 12 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Court Holds That Relationship by Customary Marriage or Blood Ties Falls Within 'Domestic Relationship' Under Section 2(f) of the Act, and Remands Matter for Fresh Consideration on Merits....

The applicant, Sau. Anita Ambadas @ Ambu Shivarkar, filed a criminal revision application challenging the judgment and order dated 17.08.2018 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Buldhana, which dism...