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Two separate senior counsels urged for the functioning of Bombay HC with full strength. Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta held both hearings. They asked him to consider social-distancing norms in Courts. This was to restore its normal functioning. However, the Bombay HC held that full strength hearing would not happen amidst

A non-COVID patient filed a PIL after one of the Hospitals in Mumbai refused treatment to him. Considering this, the HC has asked local governing bodies to curb the situation. Issue The Patient’s Non-Treatment is raised by Activists here. The activists’ concern agitated from the death of patients. The highlight

The petition is about the completion of construction of a Hospital at Beed, Maharashtra. Dr Manoj Munde, the petitioner, had moved to the High Court for urgent hearing of the plea for the permission to complete the construction. He planned to start the Outpatient Department (OPD) and dialysis unit for

An IPS officer, Mr. Amitabh Gupta, wrote a letter granting permission to the Wadhwan brothers, Kapil Wadhwan and Dheeraj Wadhwan to travel to a hill-station in Bombay during the lockdown. The Wadhwan brothers are promoters of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) and have allegedly committed money laundering against the founder

The State Government and the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, formerly Bombay Municipal Corporation) were directed to file a reply to the Habeas Corpus petition filed by a member of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). It was claimed by the Trade Union that one of their members was “illegally

In the case of Sardar Manjieeth Singh Jagan Singh. V. The State of Maharashtra, the Petition attacks the State Government notification issued, which nominated four persons to the Board of Directors of Nanded Gurudwara. To expand it, the State nominated members on Nanded Sikh Gurudwara Sachkhand Shree Hazur Apchalnagar Sahib

Justice Dipankar Dutta was sworn in as the 45th Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court by the Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on 28th April 2020. The ceremony was live-streamed and the guests maintained social-distancing and were also wearing masks according to COVID-19 protocol. Justice Dutta made a 2,000-km,

The High Power Committee of the State of Maharashtra was asked to decide whether the distinction made between prisoners/undertrials accused under IPC and those under special enactments like NDPS, PMLA, UAPA etc…for release on parole due to COVID-19, is discriminatory. The High Power Committee was constituted in the wake of

The Bombay High Court has notified that summer vacations for the High Court of Bombay and other subordinate courts would get cancelled once the lockdown is lifted. Delhi High Court was the first to do the same. A Senior designated advocate, Dinesh Kumar Goswami, in this regard had mentioned in

The writ application has been file by the applicant against an order passed by the Respondent under Section 179 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Facts of the Case The facts of Sonal Nimish Patel v. Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax, Circle 4(1)(2) are as follows: An amount of Rs.