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Ayesha Arvind

Ayesha Arvind is a Senior Assistant Editor, specialising in legal and judicial reportage. She tracks high courts and tribunals, bringing key legal developments and their broader impact to the forefront.

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Can’t invoke kidnap charges if minor elopes willingly: Bombay HC

The court was hearing a petition filed by a Mumbai resident who wanted the court to quash a kidnapping charge the police invoked against him.

Courts usually consider a person aged 16 years or older to have attained the age of discretion, which means they are capable of understanding the consequences of their actions and taking a well-thought-out decision.(HT file photo)

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Published on Jan 08, 2017 12:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Govt employees cannot overstay in official quarters, rules Bombay high court

A division bench of the court held that staff quarters constructed by the Centre, state, or municipal bodies are “public properties” and “no court can allow any public property to be usurped by private citizens who then will use it for profiteering.”

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Published on Jan 07, 2017 12:05 AM IST

Hin dustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bombay HC directs BMC, other stakeholders to hold a meeting this week on repairing potholes

A bench of justice Shantanu Kemkar and justice PD Naik observed in a recent order the primary reason for potholes resurfacing every monsoon, despite the BMC’s claims of carried out extensive repair work, seemed to be that the civic body was “using substandard material for repair work and was repeatedly spending huge amounts of money to benefit contractors”...

The court even set a date for this meeting — January 5 — that is to be attended by senior officials from BMC, MMRDA, PWD, MSRDC and the Bombay Port Trust, to ensure potholes do not reappear every monsoon season.(HT file photo)

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Updated on Jan 04, 2017 12:41 PM IST

Hindusatn Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Serving booze on lawns on New Year’s Eve: HC refuses to entertain Bombay Gymkhana’s plea

Justice Tated said the purpose of the vacation bench was to grant hearings to urgent matters, and as the club already had the permission to serve alcohol inside, he didn’t see a problem

The club, which is locked in a tussle with the BMC over surrendering land for widening a road, had written to the collector’s office seeking permission for a separate permit from the excise department to serve alcohol on its lawns on December 31(File)

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Updated on Dec 31, 2016 01:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

State govt assures HC a noise-free Christmas, New Year’s Eve in Mumbai

State authorities will ensure there is no violation of noise pollution norms during Christmas and on New Year’s Eve, the Maharashtra government assured the Bombay high court on Friday.

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Published on Dec 24, 2016 01:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Maharashtra will appoint new Advocate General by Dec 30

The last advocate general Shreehari Aney resigned from the post in March 2016 and since then advocate Rohit Deo has been serving as the acting AG.

A division bench led by Justice AS Oka had earlier directed the state government to file an affidavit stating by when will it make the appointment to the important constitutional post.(Pic for Representation)

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Published on Dec 24, 2016 12:43 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab file contempt case against Jiah Khan’s mother

In their plea filed on Thursday, Pancholi and Wahab have urged the court to initiate action against Rabia for “continuing to make defamatory statements against them and their son Sooraj Pancholi”.

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Updated on Dec 23, 2016 04:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bombay high court refuses to let man born in Pak stay in India

The court has also ordered an inquiry into how the central government has been issuing him long term visas (LTV) for so many years when the man has neither an Indian nor a Pakistani passport.

he man has been staying in India for 49 years now and his parents are of Indian origin.(HT Photo)

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Published on Dec 22, 2016 12:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Keep Wadia’s seat vacant in three companies: Bombay HC to Tata Sons

The Bombay high court, in an interim order on Friday, directed Tata Sons to keep one seat of an independent director “vacant until further orders” in each of its companies where industrialist Nusli Wadia serves as independent director.

Tata Steel independent director, Nusli Wadia, has filed a defamation case against Tata Sons for targeting him over his support to ousted Tata Group chairman, Cyrus Mistry.(PTI File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 17, 2016 01:52 AM IST

Mumbai, Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind

Keep Wadia’s seat vacant in three firms: Bombay HC to Tata Sons

The Bombay high court, in an interim order on Friday, directed Tata Sons to keep one seat of an independent director “vacant until further orders” in each of its three companies where industrialist Nusli Wadia currently serves as an independent director

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Published on Dec 17, 2016 01:28 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Kharghar day care’s owner deserves no relief, says Bombay high court

The Bombay high court on Thursday refused to protect the owner of the Navi Mumbai day care centre, where a 10-month-old girl was brutally assaulted by a staff member in November, from being arrested.

The HC said the owner of the Navi Mumbai day care centre, where a 10-month-old girl was brutally assaulted by a staff member in November, deserves no relief.

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Updated on Dec 16, 2016 01:14 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Chhagan Bhujbal’s bail, habeas corpus pleas dismissed by Bombay HC

A bench led by Justice Ranjit More read out the operative portion of the order saying that Bhujbal’s pleas were devoid of merit.

Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal was arrested on March 14 by ED on charges of money laundering.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 14, 2016 12:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Dismiss Kapil Sharma’s plea in illegal alterations case: BMC to Bombay HC

According to BMC, it granted Sharma a chance to “remove the unauthorized work carried out contrary to the corporation’s full occupation certificate”, when it issued him a notice in April

According to BMC, it granted actor Kapil Sharma a chance to “remove the unauthorized work carried out contrary to the corporation’s full occupation certificate”, when it issued him a notice in April.(File photo)

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Updated on Dec 14, 2016 12:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bombay HC stays proceedings against JSW’s Alibaug steel plant

A bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Nutan Sardessai have also asked JSW to file a reply of its arguments.

The notice came after one DN Patil, a resident of Alibaug, filed an appeal before the NGT.(HT Pic for Representation)

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Updated on Dec 08, 2016 12:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

HC relief for Poonam Bhagat

The Bombay High Court has restrained a magisterial court from taking cognisance of a charge sheet filed by the police against socialite...

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Updated on Dec 07, 2016 01:35 PM IST

Hindustan times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

List steps taken for safety of women who work late: Bombay high court to Maharashtra govt

The directions came while the bench was hearing a suo moto PIL on the safety arrangements for women in the city

A bench of justice VM Kanade and justice Nutan Sardessai observed it was the state’s responsibility to ensure a safe and secure commute for such women

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Published on Dec 06, 2016 12:59 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Avadhnama case: Bombay high court restrains police from booking Urdu newspaper editor

The Bombay high court on Monday stopped the police from filing a charge sheet against Shireen Dalvi, the editor of the now defunct Mumbai edition of Avadhnama, an Urdu daily.

On January 17 last year, Dalvi had reproduced on the front page of her paper, the cover of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 06, 2016 12:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bal Thackeray’s will: Sanjay Raut likely to depose before HC today

Raut was initially scheduled to appear before the court on October 10, but he had failed to do so and instead sent a message through a party member stating that he was out of town

Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena MP and the executive editor of the party’s mouthpiece Saamana.(PTI Photo)

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Updated on Dec 05, 2016 10:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

School, state must take care of students with disabilities: HC

The bench was hearing a plea filed by the parents of a Class 7 student of a Nashik-based private school, who was suspended for being overly “aggressive” and “hyper active.”

A bench comprising chief justice Manjula Chellur and justice MS Sonak reminded the state and all schools, that under the RTE, “no school can deny admission to a child on the grounds of disability”.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 04, 2016 12:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bombay HC: Shivaji Park belongs city, not political parties

A bench of justice VM Kanade and justice Nutan Sardessai said “no organisation could claim a right to the open spaces in the city”

The HC directed the Maharashtra government to constitute a committee “to consider finding an alternate spot” to hold large-scale events like Dr BR Ambedkar’s death anniversary

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Published on Dec 02, 2016 11:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Demonetisation: Bombay HC asks lower courts to take cheques, DDs for bail bonds

The Bombay high court on Thursday issued a notice directing all subordinate courts in the state to begin accepting cheques and demand drafts instead of the provisional cash for bails and sureties, considering how several undertrials have been languishing in jails with no new currency notes after the Centre’s demonetisation move

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Updated on Dec 02, 2016 01:28 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Don’t rush with cases on religious sentiments: Bombay HC to police

Bombay High Court on Thursday cautioned the police against rushing into registering offences on the basis of any complaint where someone’s religious sentiments have been hurt.

A bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Nutan Sardessai said that the “police need to apply their mind before rushing” into registering an offence on the grounds of ‘offended religious beliefs’ and that the “police must not cower down into submission every time someone cries wolf”.(HT File Photo)

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Published on Dec 02, 2016 12:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bombay High Court says no to loudspeakers on Christmas and New Year’s eve

The Bombay high court on Thursday refused Shivaji Park Gymkhana the permission to use loudspeakers for Christmas and New Year’s eve celebrations this year, saying that Shivaji Park had become a “dumping ground” with every kind of function being organised there because of the lack of an alternate open space

It said that people organised anything from a birthday parties to events as banal as selling oranges at Shivaji Park and the authorities had failed to contain noise pollution and implement the courts’ orders on the same(HT File Photo)

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Published on Dec 02, 2016 12:14 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Bilkis Bano rape case: Bombay high court reserves order on appeals

The Bombay high court has reserved its order on the appeals filed by the CBI and the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case

The bench of Justice VK Tahilramani and Justice Mridula Bhatkar had been conducting a day to day hearing on both the pleas since July, this year.(HT File Photo)

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Published on Dec 01, 2016 11:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Securities scam: Harshad Mehta’s brother convicted after two decades

On November 25 this year, Justice Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi pronounced the judgement convicting among others, Sudhir Mehta, Harsahad Mehta’s brother.

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Published on Nov 29, 2016 12:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Upadhyay-Bhambhani murders: HC likely to hear Chintan’s bail plea

A trial court had earlier said that if let out on bail, Chintan was likely to “tamper with the prosecution’s evidence or influence witnesses”

Artist Chintan Upadhyay told the court he was not present at the scene of crime as he was in Delhi at the time.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Nov 28, 2016 09:45 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

BMC sweeper studying PhD struggles to get study leave

Sunil Yadav has been forced to knock on the Bombay high court’s door and seek intervention as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is refusing to grant him study leave

The BMC, on its part, argued that according to the rule, the applicant should be doing a course that will equip him better at his job.(File photo)

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Updated on Nov 27, 2016 01:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Video-conferencing trials project: Bombay HC asks for status report

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the state government to submit a status report on the project for installing video conferencing units in courts across the state.

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Updated on Nov 24, 2016 12:37 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

CBI has done ‘bare minumum’ in Dabholkar case, says Bombay HC

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the joint director of the CBI to file a report explaining the reason behind the slow progress made in the probe.

The bench also rejected the CBI’s request to defer the trial in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s murder case(HT File Photo)

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Published on Nov 23, 2016 11:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

Saving mangroves crucial, but don’t halt development projects, says Bombay HC

The Bombay high court cleared five development projects across the state, stuck as they were likely to destroy mangroves, saying while ecological conservation is “crucial, not every development project should be halted”

Ecological conservation is crucial, not every development project should be halted, particularly, if these projects are meant for public welfare, the Bombay high court said.

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Updated on Nov 23, 2016 09:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAyesha Arvind, Mumbai

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Ayesha Arvind

Ayesha Arvind is a Senior Assistant Editor, specialising in legal and judicial reportage. She tracks high courts and tribunals, bringing key legal developments and their broader impact to the forefront.

The court was hearing a petition filed by a Mumbai resident who wanted the court to quash a kidnapping charge the police invoked against him.

A division bench of the court held that staff quarters constructed by the Centre, state, or municipal bodies are “public properties” and “no court can allow any public property to be usurped by private citizens who then will use it for profiteering.”

Justice Tated said the purpose of the vacation bench was to grant hearings to urgent matters, and as the club already had the permission to serve alcohol inside, he didn’t see a problem

State authorities will ensure there is no violation of noise pollution norms during Christmas and on New Year’s Eve, the Maharashtra government assured the Bombay high court on Friday.

The last advocate general Shreehari Aney resigned from the post in March 2016 and since then advocate Rohit Deo has been serving as the acting AG.

In their plea filed on Thursday, Pancholi and Wahab have urged the court to initiate action against Rabia for “continuing to make defamatory statements against them and their son Sooraj Pancholi”.

The court has also ordered an inquiry into how the central government has been issuing him long term visas (LTV) for so many years when the man has neither an Indian nor a Pakistani passport.

The Bombay high court, in an interim order on Friday, directed Tata Sons to keep one seat of an independent director “vacant until further orders” in each of its companies where industrialist Nusli Wadia serves as independent director.

The Bombay high court, in an interim order on Friday, directed Tata Sons to keep one seat of an independent director “vacant until further orders” in each of its three companies where industrialist Nusli Wadia currently serves as an independent director

The Bombay high court on Thursday refused to protect the owner of the Navi Mumbai day care centre, where a 10-month-old girl was brutally assaulted by a staff member in November, from being arrested.

A bench led by Justice Ranjit More read out the operative portion of the order saying that Bhujbal’s pleas were devoid of merit.

According to BMC, it granted Sharma a chance to “remove the unauthorized work carried out contrary to the corporation’s full occupation certificate”, when it issued him a notice in April

A bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Nutan Sardessai have also asked JSW to file a reply of its arguments.

The Bombay High Court has restrained a magisterial court from taking cognisance of a charge sheet filed by the police against socialite...

The directions came while the bench was hearing a suo moto PIL on the safety arrangements for women in the city

The Bombay high court on Monday stopped the police from filing a charge sheet against Shireen Dalvi, the editor of the now defunct Mumbai edition of Avadhnama, an Urdu daily.

Raut was initially scheduled to appear before the court on October 10, but he had failed to do so and instead sent a message through a party member stating that he was out of town

The bench was hearing a plea filed by the parents of a Class 7 student of a Nashik-based private school, who was suspended for being overly “aggressive” and “hyper active.”

A bench of justice VM Kanade and justice Nutan Sardessai said “no organisation could claim a right to the open spaces in the city”

Bombay High Court on Thursday cautioned the police against rushing into registering offences on the basis of any complaint where someone’s religious sentiments have been hurt.

The Bombay high court has reserved its order on the appeals filed by the CBI and the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case

On November 25 this year, Justice Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi pronounced the judgement convicting among others, Sudhir Mehta, Harsahad Mehta’s brother.

A trial court had earlier said that if let out on bail, Chintan was likely to “tamper with the prosecution’s evidence or influence witnesses”

Sunil Yadav has been forced to knock on the Bombay high court’s door and seek intervention as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is refusing to grant him study leave

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the state government to submit a status report on the project for installing video conferencing units in courts across the state.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the joint director of the CBI to file a report explaining the reason behind the slow progress made in the probe.

The Bombay high court cleared five development projects across the state, stuck as they were likely to destroy mangroves, saying while ecological conservation is “crucial, not every development project should be halted”

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