Bombay High Court
On April 21, The Supreme Court will hear the petition filed by Ideal Road Builders (IRB) to withdraw the temporary stay granted by Bombay high court (HC) to the city’s toll collection. Justice A S Oka and Justice M H Sonak headed an HC division bench had during a joint hearing of public interest litigations [...] Continue Reading »
Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd has been asked by the High Court to consider handing over possession of ready flats at its Premier Residency project at Kurla in Mumbai. The Bombay high Court suggested that the lawyers representing the developer and home buyers should try for an out of-court settlement. Aejaz Saiyed, who has bought [...] Continue Reading »
A bench of the Bombay high court, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed four years ago by a group of residents from Hiranandani Estate, Thane, said If residents are complaining of illegal structures mushrooming across the city , The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) or the Thane collector cannot ‘throw its hands up’. To [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay high court have granted stay of execution to an under-construction high-rise at Worli Seaface, the Sea Green housing society that had come under the scanner over alleged Adarsh-like violations for not obtaining CRZ approval and consuming extra FSI. In an interim order last week a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and [...] Continue Reading »
An official says that the forest officers at the state level would be required to scrutinize applications within 10 days and if no questions are raised, the proposal is to be accepted under a new paper less approval mechanism that consists of state as well as central-level forest clearances. It is an eight stage process. [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body has started work to modify more than 1,000 roads. It will improve medians and footpaths while simultaneously taking up carriageway works. Nearly 3000 crore has been sanctioned for the road improvement project which is part of BMC’s master plan submitted to the Bombay high court last year. The BMC is searching new [...] Continue Reading »
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now moved the Bombay high court for the same relief, Two months after the sessions court threw out its plea to drop charges against former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam. There was not much evidence against Chavan though initially while seeking sanction it [...] Continue Reading »
The NHAI felled a huge neem tree for road widening near the sports complex on Mankapur Road despite public interest litigation (PIL) pending in the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) seems to be behaving as if it is above the law. The division bench of Justice BR [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay High Court rejected Maharashtra Chief Minister’s discretionary housing quota citing that the allotments of flats in this quota were illegal. The court added all the policies of the state government regarding this quota are not up to the mark. The court stopped the state government from allotting the 2 percent of the Maharashtra [...] Continue Reading »
A total ban on recuperation and creation on wetlands in Maharashtra which called for timely action against violations was ordered on Wednesday by the Bombay high court. A wetland is any land bordering a water body, which gives a distinct eco-system. This could be coastal or inland and include mangroves, marshes and swamps. Justices V [...] Continue Reading »
