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Bombay High Court Allows Petition Challenging SCEA Directive Excluding Retired Employees from Voter List in Salary Earner's Co-operative Bank Elections. Directive Issued Without Authority Under Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, and Bye-laws Permitting Retired Members to Vote Must Be Respected....

The petitioners, Nashik Zilla Sarkari and Parishad Karmachari Sahakari Bank Ltd. (a salary earner's co-operative bank) and some of its retired employee members, challenged a communication dated 10 Feb...

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Bombay High Court Quashes FIR in Dowry Harassment Case Due to Unreasonable Delay and Lack of Prima Facie Evidence. Allegations of cruelty under Section 498-A IPC found baseless as no demand made during informant's stay with applicants....

The applicants, including husband and in-laws, filed an application under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 seeking quashing of FIR No.191/2022 registered at Police Station Sewali, Dist...

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Bombay High Court Acquits Accused in POCSO Case Due to Inconsistent Evidence and Lack of Corroboration. Conviction for Aggravated Penetrative Sexual Assault Under Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 of POCSO Act and Section 376 IPC Set Aside as Prosecution Failed to Prove Guilt Beyond Reasonable Doubt....

The appellant, Raju Suryawanshi, was convicted by the Special Judge under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and the Indian Penal Code for offences including aggravated penetr...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Revision Against Conviction for Kidnapping and Outraging Modesty of Mentally Retarded Minor Girl. Evidence of Brother and Father, Corroborated by Medical Reports, Found Sufficient to Sustain Conviction Under Sections 363, 366, 354, 324, 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860....

The case arises from a criminal revision application filed by the accused, Sheikh Babu Sheikh Jalal and Ganesh Raju Jadho, challenging their conviction and sentence by the learned Assistant Sessions J...

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Bombay High Court Upholds Conviction Under Section 304 Part II IPC for Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder. Single Blow on Head with Stick Causing Death After 11 Days - Knowledge of Likely Death Established, No Intention to Kill....

The judgment arises from a criminal appeal and revision against the conviction of the accused under Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution case was that on 11.02.2004, the accus...

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Bombay High Court Upholds CAT Order for Payment of Arrears of Salary to Driver Reinstated After Acquittal in Corruption Case. No Justification for Denying Full Back Wages During Intervening Period of Compulsory Retirement....

The Union of India filed a writ petition challenging the order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) dated 9 August 2018 in Original Application No. 787/2010, which directed payment of arrears ...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses State's Petition Challenging Absorption of Forest Labourers Under Government Resolution. Failure to Maintain Records Cannot Disentitle Workers from Absorption Under GR Dated 16 October 2012....

The State of Maharashtra, through the Conservator of Forests and Director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park Division, filed a writ petition challenging the judgment and order dated 17 June 2021 of the Ma...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Writ Petition Challenging Cancellation of Appointments to Non-Statutory Commission. Appointees Held to Serve at Pleasure; No Right to Tenure or Hearing; Change in Policy by New Government Not Arbitrary....

This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India was filed by three former Chairman/Members of the Maharashtra State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (the Commissi...

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Bombay High Court Allows Visually Impaired Student to Pursue Physiotherapy — Strikes Down Blanket Ban as Unconstitutional. The court held that a complete prohibition on persons with visual impairment from studying or practicing physiotherapy violates Article 14 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and directed individual assessment....

The petitioner, Zill Suresh Jain, a student aged 18 years, suffers from low vision with a 40% visual impairment. She completed her SSC in March 2020 and HSC in March 2022 and aspires to study and prac...

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High Court Issues Directions in Slum Rehabilitation Writ Petitions; Expresses Grave Concern Over Alleged Fraud. No Final Verdict; Ongoing Investigation into Trafficking of Tenements and Non-Fixation of Transit Rent Under SRA Circular....

The Bombay High Court issued a detailed common order in a batch of writ petitions filed by slum dwellers of the Kolekalyan Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) project. The project, covering over 17 ac...