Setting aside the Bombay High Court order rejecting her bail plea, a bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Augustine George Masih noted that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has not opposed release of Professor Sen on bail.
The disabled former DU professor was convicted in the case by a sessions court in 2017.
The Bombay High Court orders and Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation pleas apparently went unheeded as Mumbai recorded a ‘poor’ air quality index (AQI) of 118 on Monday, a day after Diwali, as per official data.
This intervention comes following a lawyer's submission of a letter highlighting the disturbing situation, underlining the court's commitment to public welfare and healthcare accountability.
Justice Rohit B Deo, a distinguished member of the Bombay High Court, has recently made a significant decision in his…
While granting time, Justice S.K. Shinde allowed an interim order preventing Kundra's arrest till August 25, when the next hearing is scheduled.
On Tuesday, Tejpal's lawyer Amit Desai requested the high court's bench at Goa comprising Justices M S Sonak and M S Jawalkar to hold the hearing "in-camera", as was done in the past during the trial of the case in the lower court.
Mehta made the disclosure in a lighter vein to the Bombay High Court, during a discussion for setting up a fresh date for the ongoing hearings related to an appeal filed by the Goa government, against the acquittal of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal by a trial court in May this year.
Counsels of Facebook had said that the matter raised before the HC was "in the realm of contract and if at all the petitioner has any grievance, the petitioner will have to seek redressal before any appropriate forum which is empowered to adjudicate the disputes between the two private parties.
The matter pertains to 150 ventilators provided to the GMCH in April under the PM Care Fund which were supplied by Rajkot-based Jyoti CNC, of which around 133 were found to be defective or malfunctional. (IANS - May18).
