Bombay High Court

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court in a recent judgment addressed a delicate matter while expanding the definition of “outraging the modesty of a woman”. The criminal revision application of Parmeshwar Dhage, the accused, who was convicted by the trial court for “touching the feet of a woman while she was asleep”, was set aside by a single judge bench.

The Bombay High Court at Aurangabad bench recently dismissed a criminal revision application filed by one Parmeshwar Dhage (accused/convict/applicant) convicted by a trial court for touching the feet of a woman in her sleep and ruled that it amounts to violation of modesty of a woman, which is punishable under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code if any one touches any part of a woman without her consent.

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to High Courts to take appropriate steps to adopt uniform procedure for case registration, use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations and make the court fee uniform.

On Monday, Advocate General Devidas J. Pangam placed before Bombay High Court the order dated November 30, 2021 passed by Justice Manish Pitale.

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Bombay High Court division bench heard a Suo Moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) , relating to the use of nylon/synthetic thread (manja) and directed the respondents to form special cells for taking effective action against the violators as per the ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected the petition filed by senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla challenging the FIR lodged by Mumbai Police in March this year. The police had booked unidentified persons for allegedly tapping phones and leaking confidential documents on the State Intelligence Department complaint since such tapping was in violation of the Official Secrets Act 1923.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted four weeks' protection from arrest to Raj Kundra, businessman and actor Shilpa Shetty's husband, in the case of shooting and streaming pornographic content. The Apex Court also issued notice to the Maharashtra government.

Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, who was granted bail in October in the Mumbai-Goa cruise drug case, has now moved to the Bombay High Court seeking modification of the bail conditions.

A full court reference was held in the Supreme Court today in the memory of Senior Advocates Ashok H. Desai and Soli Sorabjee, both former Attorney Generals of India. Desai died on April 13, 2020 and Sorabjee passed away on April 30, 2021.