Bombay High Court

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a criminal Appeal filed by Sonu Kushwaha gives its verdict on a petition filed in a Jhansi case saying that oral sex of a minor is not an offense, and reduced the sentence of the convicted in the trial court from 10 years to 7 years.

The PIL filed in Bombay High Court averred that power to issue such a notification, notifying prohibited public places vests to the State Government.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Ministry of Education and the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) to create a seat in IIT Bombay in a Special Leave Petition by a 17-year-old Dalit IIT aspirant against the order of Bombay High Court, whereby the court had expressed its inability to permit Prince Jaibir Singh to pay the Seat Acceptance Fees after the deadline.

The Supreme Court today granted protection from arrest to Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai Police Commissioner, in a number of cases registered against him by the Mumbai Police. Singh had filed the petition against the Bombay High Court's September 16 judgment dismissing his plea as not maintainable.

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Part of the three-judge bench led by Justice U.U. Lalit, which set aside the Bombay High Court's skin-to-skin contact order earlier on Thursday, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat has noted down a concurring opinion though separate from the operative judgement by Justice Bela Trivedi.

A bench headed by Justice UU Lalit set aside the high court judgment saying the most important ingredient of constituting sexual assault is sexual intent and not skin-to-skin contact with the child.

The Bombay High Court in the defamation suit filed by Sameer Wankhede’s father Dhyandev observed that the highest degree of verification is required from a state minister and prima facie there are interpolations in Sameer Wankhede's birth certificate

A Mumbai court recently allowed a petition by actor/model Rhea Chakraborty seeking de-freezing of her bank accounts which had been frozen by the Narcotics Control Bureau after she had been booked in the drug case being probed in connection with Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case.

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