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A City Civil Court order returning a restaurateur's plaint to the Small Causes Court is set aside; the dominant nature of a Section 6 possessory suit governs jurisdiction, not the underlying licence relationship.
The Bombay High Court has ordered the Director General of Police to conduct a state-wide fact-finding exercise on CCTV camera functionality and data retention at all police stations, after footage for March 2025 proved unavailable.
The Bombay High Court's Nagpur Bench found police had entered a woman's bedroom and seized her mobile phone without following mandatory safeguards under Sections 185 and 105 of the BNSS, violating Article 21.
A Division Bench at Bombay HC's Nagpur Bench directed the Registry to replace the petitioner's name with "ABC" across all digital court records, invoking the right to be forgotten under Article 21.
Justice Sandeep Marne holds that Section 94(3)(c) of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act gives Co-operative Courts wider power to add parties beyond those enumerated in Section 91(1)(a) to (e).
The Bombay High Court dismissed writ petitions challenging condonation of a 34-year delay, holding that a Sub-Divisional Officer's Section 36A order passed against a deceased tribal was void and jurisdictionally infirm.
The Bombay High Court set aside two heads of compensation totalling over Rs 10 lakh awarded to a government doctor, finding no evidence of private practice or actual income loss during leave.
Confirming guilt on all IPC charges but rejecting the "rarest of rare" classification, the Bombay High Court replaced death sentences on Chetan Pagare and Aman Jat with 30-year life imprisonment carrying no remission.
A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court upheld a 21-year-old woman's right to reside independently, directing Telangana Police to close the missing person report filed by her parents.
The Bombay High Court has restrained multiple defendants from exploiting Preity Zinta's name, image, voice, and persona through AI-generated deepfakes, chatbots, and merchandise without her consent.
The Bombay High Court Circuit Bench at Kolhapur held that Satara Municipal Council must acquire a 3,388 sq. metre DP Road reservation and pay compensation, rejecting the council's arguments that the landowner benefited from the adjoining layout and was guilty of delay.
A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court found a notarised 99-year lease agreement to be a sham transaction and upheld the revenue authority's order restoring possession to an Adivasi landowner.
Justice Sandeep Marne dismissed a challenge to the Cooperation Minister's order, holding that post-registration events cannot constitute misrepresentation under Section 21A of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act.
The Bombay High Court confirmed the disqualification of three managing committee members of a co-operative housing society who failed to supply demanded documents for 263 to 377 days despite four interventions by the Deputy Registrar.
Justice Farhan Dubash dismissed an interim application seeking protection of properties claimed as HUF assets, finding the plaintiffs presented no cogent evidence and contradictory legal foundations.
Justice Madhav Jamdar sets aside externment orders against an SDPI office-bearer, holding that leading morchas against Union government decisions cannot justify externment under the Maharashtra Police Act.
A Nagpur student's plea calling the Sikh turban exemption from helmet rules unconstitutional class legislation was dismissed by the Nagpur Bench.
The Bombay High Court's Kolhapur Bench held that Section 207 CrPC, which governs document supply after a charge sheet, cannot be read into Section 50 obligations at the time of arrest.
The Bombay High Court quashed a Section 498-A prosecution against a woman accused solely on suspicion of an extramarital affair with the complainant's husband, finding no specific act of cruelty.
The Bombay High Court partly allowed a quashing petition, discharging the wife's mother and brother from a 2017 FIR while refusing to quash proceedings against the wife herself, who had admitted contracting a second marriage while her first was subsisting.
Eight advocate-petitioners who failed the District Judge preliminary exam challenged the recruitment process as illegal because the governing rule amendments had not yet been published in the Official Gazette when the advertisement was issued.
A Division Bench dismissed a minor's RTE admission petition after a State inspection found no evidence of actual residence at the address submitted, revealing four conflicting addresses across documents.
Bombay High Court rules that the Competent Authority under the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act has full power to examine the legality of dues demanded before ordering eviction of an allottee.
The Bombay High Court at Goa held that the DMA lacks jurisdiction under Section 44 of the Goa Municipalities Act to remove a Councillor, as that quasi-judicial power belongs solely to the State Government.
