Author: Shabnam Jahan

The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur division on Thursday held in the case of Lata Pramod Dangre v. State of Maharashtra that a daughter’s repeated financial requests to her father will not constitute the crime of aiding suicide. A First Information Report (FIR) filed against a lady for allegedly aiding her father’s suicide was rejected by a panel of Justices Manish Pitale and Govind Sanap after she repeatedly demanded money from her father for her mother, the dead man’s second wife. According to the court, the daughter’s claimed frequent requests for money from her mother do not constitute the crime of…

Justice Indira Banerjee, a judge on the Supreme Court, resigned from her position on Friday after a little more than 4 years on the bench. She was given a send-off by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), which was attended by, among others, Attorney General KK Venugopal, Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, other Supreme Court justices, and SCBA President Vikas Singh. Justice Banerjee described how her father resisted her decision to enter the legal profession in her departure address. “My father disagreed with my choice to pursue a legal career. He said that I didn’t put in enough effort…

A public interest litigation (PIL) that asked the authorities to stop the commercial use of the Late Pramod Mahajan Sports Complex for musical events, including one featuring singer Falguni Pathak, scheduled to take place from September 26 to October 5, was dismissed by the Bombay High Court on Friday.Following the procedures outlined under Section 37A of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, a bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar noted that the playground had been assigned to one Sai Ganesh Welfare Association for Navratri celebrations.In spite of any other legislation or order in effect, this…

In relation to the caste certificate dispute, a magistrate court in Mumbai issued non-bailable warrants (NBW) against Navneet Rana, an MP from Amravati, and her father. This is the second time in the past month that NBWs have been issued against both of them. Rana was elected to a seat that is designated for members of the scheduled castes. Rana ran for office on the grounds that she belonged to the scheduled caste. At the Mulund police station in Mumbai, a complaint was filed against her and her father for acquiring a caste certificate fraudulently by falsifying her school-leaving certificate.…

The Supreme Court observed on Thursday during hearings on a number of petitions contesting the 103rd Constitution Amendment, which mandates a 10% quota for economically weaker sections, that “we are still living in a culture that classifies persons and groups as caste” (EWS). In response to arguments put up on behalf of the state of Andhra Pradesh, the Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit made the comment. In support of the modification, senior advocate Niranjan Reddy, speaking on behalf of the state, argued that it is not unlawful to exclude socially and educationally disadvantaged sections from…

On Thursday, the Kerala High Court rejected a request by the survivor in the 2017 actress assault case to relocate the trial from the Principle Sessions…

The defence of the accused was predicated on a recent Supreme Court ruling that stated a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act cannot proceed if there hasn’t been an earlier FIR filed by another agency. M Sasidharan, the former managing director of Tops Group, and Amit Chandole, the company’s promoter, who were detained in 2020, submitted petitions for relief with a special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), but the petitions were denied. Together with Sasidharan, Chandole, a close ally of Shiv Sena leader Pratap Sarnaik who is now allied with Eknath Shinde and the…

Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde faction on Thursday rejected a petition the party’s Uddhav Thackeray-led faction filed with the Bombay High Court asking the BMC to permit the party to stage its yearly Dussehra demonstration in Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai. The Shinde faction’s MLA Sada Sarvankar requested a delay of the case’s hearings until the Supreme Court or the Election Commission of India had decided “who represents the true Shiv Sena.” The intervention plea submitted by Sarvankar stated that “as of date, there exists a dispute as to who represents the genuine Shiv Sena and the issue is pending before…

Atomberg Technologies Pvt Ltd, a producer of fans, recently received an ad interim order from the Bombay High Court in a design infringement lawsuit it filed against Polycab India Ltd. Although the respondent’s attorney Vinod Bhagat objected to the application being heard ex-parte and asked for more time to consult with the defendant, Justice RI Chagla found that the complainant’s arguments were, at the very least, substantive and that serving notice would defeat the purpose of an ex-parte application. “In light of these arguments and the fact that Mr. Kamod’s motion seems to have some merit on the surface, I…

The Madras High Court has ruled that a woman cannot later demand support under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) if she consents to relinquish her entitlement to maintenance from her spouse and chooses a divorce by mutual consent. On September 16, Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy issued a ruling rejecting a woman’s revision petition challenging a family court’s refusal to order her ex-husband to pay her a monthly maintenance payment of 1 lakh rupees and to pay a lump sum of 5.80 crore rupees for the treatment of their 35-year-old son. However, Justice Chakravarthy maintained the family court’s ruling requiring the…