Source: indianexpress.com THE BOMBAY High Court on Friday directed the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to confine itself to felling mangroves in an area of only 200 sq m to build 10 pillars for the Bandra-Versova Sea Link. “Only fell the trees required to make pillars, nothing more than that,” Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog

Source: indianexpress.com Holding him responsible for wilful disobedience of an interim order, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has convicted the principal of a government-aided polytechnic college under the Contempt of Court Act and sentenced him to six months in jail. However, the HC ordered a stay on its judgment for 30 days to allow

Source: financialexpress.com The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed the bail plea of lobbyist Deepak Talwar, arrested by the ED in a money laundering case, saying the “magnitude of conspiracy angle” in it is huge and enormous amount of money is yet to be trailed. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar denied relief to Talwar on the ED’s contention that he

Source: hindustantimes.com The five-judge Supreme Court bench hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land title case on Wednesday set October 18 target to complete hearing in the case. “Let us make a joint effort to conclude the same by Oct 18”, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said. Chief Justice Gogoi had yesterday asked the parties

Source: deccanchronicle.com BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has refused to allow online sale of liquor to consumers in the state. The court passed the order, while dismissing a petition filed by Hip Bar Pvt Ltd, a company engaged in offering semi-closed prepaid payment instrument (Mobile Wallet) to its customers among other services. Justice S. Sujatha, in

Source: hindustantimes.com In a setback to the Punjab government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision on micro-reservation in private medical colleges in the state. With this, the deadlock over the counselling for MBBS and BDS courses being conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot,

Source: thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Tuesday strengthened security on its campus in the wake of a bomb threat letter received by its Registrar General C. Kumarappan on Monday from a person who identified himself to be Hardarshan Singh Nagpal of the ‘International Khaalistan Support Group’ and claimed to have planned multiple bomb blasts

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: A 23-year-old man who filed a habeas corpus petition that his distant relative, a woman, was missing and sought the Telangana High Court’s intervention, was penalised by the court with Rs 50,000 for filing a false petition and misusing the law. The High Court last week, received a habeas corpus petition from Vaspari

Source: indialegallive.com The High Court of Delhi has refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation filed by Suraz India Trust, an NGO, through its Chairman Rajiv Daiya. Court said the Supreme Court had earlier issued orders against Rajiv Daiya and had directed the Registry not to accept any application filed by them. The Delhi High Court bench

Source: moneycontrol.com A 2004 sexual harassment case against angel investor Mahesh Murthy has been quashed by the Bombay High Court. The court noted that the complainant has not “properly explained” why a case was filed 14 years after the incident. The suburban Bandra Police had registered the case against Murthy in March 2018 under Indian Penal