Angry exchanges between senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband, Javed Anand, and the Solicitor General, Ranjit Kumar, marked the hearing before Court No 3 at 2pm before justices Anil R Dave, Fakkir Mohammed Ibrahim Kalifulla and V Gopala Gowda.£££para£££

The Maharashtra government will have to figure out its stance on the legality of casinos in the state, within six months, after the Bombay high court today ordered it to take a decision on the yet-not-notified Maharashtra Casinos (Control & Tax) Act 1976. Hariani & Co solicitor Anirudh Har...

Nestle India on Thursday asked the apex consumer court why fresh food safety tests were being ordered on Maggi noodles when a similar exercise has already been conducted as per the directions of the Bombay high court. The matter came up before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCD...

The Bombay high court on Thursday quashed an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) which had ruled that the IT Department had powers to raise a tax demand on telecom giant Vodafone India in a Rs 8,500 crore transfer pricing case. In a terse statement, Vodafone India “welcomed” the high c...

Moneylife Journalists Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal may not be compensated with Rs 1.5 lakh each by the National Stock Exchange (NSE), after the Bombay high court stayed its own order that had fined the NSE to pay them, reported DNA . The NSE had filed a Rs 100 crore defamation claim against the j...

The Bombay high court on Monday declined to give an interim injunction on the ban on slaughter of bulls and sale of beef during Bakr-Eid. A division bench comprising Justice AS Oka and Justice VL Achliya was hearing a bunch of petitions, seeking relaxation on the ban on slaughter of bulls and sale o...

The Supreme Court bench comprising justices TS Thakur and Kurian Joseph, in their order first granted permission to file the SLP in the appeal against Bombay high court order staying the Maharashtra government’s ban on sale of meat on some days of Paryurshan, an annual holy festival of Jain community. The ban was to be effective on September 10 and 17.

The Supreme Court today declined to interfere with the Bombay high court which had stayed the order of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai prohibiting the sale of meat during the Jain festival of Paryurshan. An apex court bench of Justice TS Thakur and Justice Kurian Joseph, while refusing t...

The Indian judiciary has been grappling with the question of whether to permit foreign lawyers to practice in India for more than two decades. After yesterday’s hearing in the Supreme Court, it doesn’t look like any end is in sight.

Verus won an order lifting the city-wide Mumbai ban on the sale of meat that was imposed by the government in solidarity with the Jain fasting period.

A revised paper-book pertaining to the 2002 accident case involving Bollywood megastar Salman Khan is ready and was submitted to the Bombay high court here on Friday. The new paper-book - a compilation of the documentary evidences, lower court orders and verdict, and other papers - was prepared by t...

Twelve people were convicted on Friday by a special court here in the 7/11 serial bombings that ripped through Mumbai trains and left 189 people dead. The much anticipated verdict was delivered by Special Judge YD Shinde of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court. The court acqu...

Rapped sharply by the Bombay high court, most political parties and the public, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday hurriedly decided to reduce the four-day meat ban in Mumbai by two days. The BMC general body urged Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta to lift the ban for two days - ...

Cannabis remains contraband in India, after the Bombay high court dismissed a petition filed in April to decriminalise its use, on the ground that the legislature, and not the court, was the appropriate forum for the challenge.

Bombay high court chief justice Mohit Shah retired on Tuesday, a fter presiding over the court for over five years, reported The Indian Express . Shah had started practising in the Gujarat high court in 1976 and was elevated as a judge on the bench of the same court in 1995. He is known for his judg...

The Bombay high court on Monday directed its registry to prepare a fresh paper-book — a compilation of documentary evidence in the 2002 accident case and conviction of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan — by Friday as it was not made properly as per rules. At a hearing before Justice AR Joshi, Salman’s...

Yesterday (September 1) in Court No 8 of the Supreme Court, before justices Ranjan Gogoi and NV Ramana, a case of civil contempt against the Central Government was argued unsuccessfully by the petitioner in the main case of National Federation of the Blind vs Sanjay Kothari, Secy Deptt Of Personnel and Training.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking cancellation of bail of film star Salman Khan who was convicted and sentenced in a hit and run case. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu declined the plea by one of the alleged victims associated with the case and belonging to Mu...

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the court registry to prepare afresh the paper-book pertaining to the Salman Khan accident case. Justice VR Joshi also asked the registry to ask for a fresh paper-book from the sessions court, and if required, the assistance of the trial court judge should...

Bollywood megastar Salman Khan’s lawyer Salman Khan lawyer on Tuesday told the Bombay high court that certain documents were not included in the paper-book and hence he could not argue his appeal. In an application filed before Justice AR Joshi, counsel Desai claimed that some documents relating to ...