Mumbai, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court warned "Fugitive Economic Offender" UK-based businessman Vijay Mallya against posting court documents on social media while the money laundering matter being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is still being heard, a lawyer said on Tuesday. Advocate Ashish Mehta said that High Court's direction to the fugitive businessman, allegedly present in the UK, followed the ED's objection to Mallya uploading the probe agency's affidavit on social media platform X even before the court had considered its contents. Posting the matter for hearing on October 13, the High Court directed the State Bank of India (SBI) to file a fresh affidavit taking into account the disclosures made by the ED.

Mumbai/New Delhi, Sep 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha (LoP), Rahul Gandhi, seeking quashing of criminal defamation proceedings against him over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A single-judge Bench of Justice Nitin Borkar refused to interfere with the order passed by the magistrate, issuing summons to LoP Gandhi, holding that there was no manifest illegality or perversity warranting interference under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

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New Delhi, Sep 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Satish Salian, father of late celebrity manager Disha Salian, on Wednesday said that he would continue his fight for justice after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into his daughter's death in 2020. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the CBI to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Disha Salian, who was the former manager of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Speaking to IANS, Satish Salian welcomed the court verdict and thanked those who supported his legal battle. "I expressed my gratitude to the court, and I am grateful to all of you.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court on Thursday set aside the acquittal of former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal in the 2013 sexual assault case involving a junior colleague and convicted him of rape and other offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). A Division Bench of Justices Neela Gokhale and Amit Jamsandekar allowed the appeal filed by the Goa government against the May 2021 judgment of a sessions court in Mapusa, which had acquitted Tejpal of all charges. Pronouncing the verdict, the Justice Gokhale-led Bench said that it had convicted Tejpal under Sections 376(2)(f) and 376(2)(k) (rape), 354A (sexual harassment) and 354B (assault or use of criminal force against a woman with intent to disrobe) of the IPC.

Mumbai, Aug 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a significant relief to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the removal of defamatory and AI-generated deepfake content circulating on social media platforms that falsely linked him and his family members to the Central government's E20 ethanol blending programme. The court's order came while hearing a civil suit filed by Gadkari against major technology and social media companies, including Meta, X and Google/YouTube, along with unidentified content creators accused of publishing and disseminating the disputed material. According to the petition, several manipulated videos, deepfakes and misleading social media posts alleged that Gadkari and his family had benefited financially from the government's ethanol-blended fuel policy.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, July 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court on Thursday slapped a cost of Rs 5,000 each on four NEET aspirants for filing petitions, based on incorrect information, and challenging the results declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) earlier this month. The petitioners -- Hricha, Soham, Atharva and Rahul -- were told to pay Rs 5,000 each as cost of litigation by the Division Bench comprising Justice N. B. Suryawanshi and Justice A. D. Shinde during a hearing at the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Bench of the High Court. The High Court dismissed all the petitions, noting that the petitioners had approached it on the basis of incorrect and unsubstantiated information.

Mumbai, July 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Calling it a recipe to chaos in the criminal justice administration, the Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for proceeding against its own investigating officer Sameer Wankhede merely on the basis of allegations of an accused and anonymous complaints. A division bench comprising Justice A.S. Gadkari and Justice Kamal Khata expressed concern over the manner in which the NCB initiated multiple inquiries against its former Zonal Director involved in the Aryan Khan case of 2021, noting that such a course of action would demoralise honest officers.

Mumbai, July 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approached the Bombay High Court with a defamation suit against alleged AI-generated deepfake videos and misleading social media posts linking him and his family to the Centre's E20 ethanol blending policy. The High Court has admitted the petition and scheduled a hearing on Gadkari's plea seeking interim relief. The plea has sought injunction against the circulation of the disputed content. Gadkari has made social media platforms Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and X as respondents in the matter.

The Bombay High Court has issued a temporary injunction to stop the unidentified “Morpheus” group from leaking or trading more than 680 GB of data allegedly stolen from HDFC Asset Management Company. The court also directed Indian authorities to remove or block any platforms tied to the stolen information, citing the risk of irreversible harm to millions of investors. #Morpheus #HDFCAssetManagementCompany #SEBI #DoT #MeitY

Mumbai, March 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested a man accused of cyber cheating a judge of the Bombay High Court. Acting on a complaint filed by the victim, a 25-year-old from Jamtara, Jharkhand, was taken into custody for allegedly creating fake customer care numbers and siphoning off money through a phishing app. According to the police, the arrest is linked to a fraud amounting to approximately Rs 6.02 lakh, carried out through a carefully orchestrated credit card reward points scam.

Mumbai, Feb 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) UK-based businessman and alleged financial defaulter Vijay Mallya, on Thursday, got one last chance from the Bombay High Court to return to the country and submit to its jurisdiction if he wants Indian authorities to drop his "fugitive economic offender" tag. A bench led by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar pulled up the fugitive businessman for seeking relief from an Indian court while remaining abroad.

Mumbai, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty has received major relief from the Bombay High Court in the Sushant Singh Rajput Death Case. The HC has directed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to return the actress's passport. Refreshing your memory, Rhea was arrested in the drug case back in 2020 after the sudden demise of her then-boyfriend, Sushant. However, she was granted bail the following month with the condition that she submit her passport to the NCB.

Mumbai, Sep 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hearing a plea challenging the acquittal in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday expressed surprise over a victim’s father not becoming a witness during the trial and hinted that an “open gate” is not available to everyone for filing an appeal. A bench headed by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar put off the hearing to Wednesday, saying that it needs more information on who among the six appellants were witnesses in the trial.

New Delhi, August 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Bombay High Court decision, which had restored nearly 120 hectares of land in Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg area as a "protected forest". The interim relief, granted by a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran, comes as a temporary reprieve to the Brihannumbai Municipal Corporation, allowing the civic body to continue developing the site as a landfill for garbage disposal.

Mumbai, July 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hours after a Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court acquitted all seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case in which six people were killed and over 100 were injured, the victims and the families of the deceased on Thursday expressed deep disappointment with the verdict and announced their intention to challenge it in the Bombay High Court.

New Delhi, July 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the Bombay High Court judgment acquitting 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case will not be treated as a binding precedent. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and N. Kotiswar Singh passed the order after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that the questions of law decided in the impugned judgment will affect other pending trials under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA).

Mumbai, July 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) After the Bombay High Court's landmark verdict acquitting all 12 men previously convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, on Tuesday, demanded a formal apology from the then Congress-led government, blaming its "unconstitutional policies" for the wrongful incarceration and suffering of innocent Muslim men. "The Congress government of that time should come forward and apologise to the Muslim community," Maulana Syed Kaab Rashidi, legal advisor to Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind told IANS.

New Delhi, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea of HDFC Bank CEO and Managing Director Sashidhar Jagdishan to quash an FIR lodged against him, following a complaint by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, which runs Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital, that he has accepted a bribe of Rs 2.05 crore. A Bench of Justices P.S.

Mumbai, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) In view of the alleged “death threats” received by stand-up comic Kunal Kamra, the Bombay High Court has agreed to give an urgent hearing on Tuesday to his plea seeking the quashing of multiple FIRs registered against him over his alleged "jibe" at Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Kamra was booked by Mumbai Police for allegedly referring to Shinde as a “traitor (gaddar)" in a song in his show last month and posting a video of the act on social media.

Mumbai, March 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed an application filed by cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and his choreographer wife Dhanashree Verma seeking waiver of the cooling-off period in their ongoing mutual consent divorce proceedings. A bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar directed the family court to decide the divorce petition on Thursday considering Chahal's participation in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL).

Mumbai, March 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday put a four-week hold on a special court's order which had directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to file an FIR against former SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials. The special court had issued the order following allegations of stock market fraud and regulatory violations, but the High Court noted that the order was issued “mechanically, without proper examination of the details or assigning specific roles to the accused”.

Mumbai, March 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Securities Exchange Board of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Monday moved the Bombay High Court to challenge an ACB Court order to file an FIR against former SEBI Chairperson, along with some SEBI and BSE officials. The Bombay High Court agreed to grant an urgent hearing on SEBI and BSE’s plea against the order on March 4 while issuing directions restraining the registration of the FIR.