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The Bombay High Court imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on a woman for filing a false rape complaint against her boyfriend, as it...

Senior Bombay High Court judge, Justice Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari, has resigned from his "judgeship".

The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the Maharashtra government and BMC’s campaign urging students of civic schools to drink more water, and asked if these schools indeed provide clean drinking water.

In a relief to the BJP parliamentarian from Akola, the Bombay High Court recently dismissed a petition seeking his disqualification for failing to disclose his expenses on using a helicopter for Gopinath Munde and for publishing advertisements of the then PM candidate Narendra Modi. The HC has accordingly imposed costs of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner, a villager, for “wasting” its time.

The Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra's Thane district has sealed three branches of public sector lender Canara Bank for non-payment of property tax of Rs 2.75 crore, an official said on Saturday.

The state government has misled the Bombay High Court in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) related to the State Women Commission.

The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) was left red-faced on Thursday after city's municipal commissioner admitted 'poor' survival rate of trees transplanted by the former in lieu of the thousands of trees chopped down for paving ways for its controversial Metro III line. The civic commissioner suggested the MMRCL to plant three times more trees to compensate the trees, which died after transplantation.

It has been ten years after the death of a Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty in 2009. Shetty was fighting for seeking information through RTI on an ongoing road project in Maharashtra. The case has reached the Supreme Court and achieved a significant point, posted to be heard on November 07. The judge presiding over the matter, Justice B.R. Gavai, recused himself from the case and the hearing was postponed to the second week of December. 

The Bombay High Court has granted relief to the businessman and quashed prior orders. The case is ongoing before a division bench of the Bombay High Court comprising of Justice Ranjit More and Justice N.M. Jamdar. The bench had ordered the CBI to destroy all the copies of the said call recording of the businessman.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court against the previous order of the Bombay High Court. The judgement of the Bombay High Court came as a relief to the key functionaries of the organisation.