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Commander Nanavati, accused under section 302, was initially declared not guilty by a jury, but the verdict was dismissed by the Bombay High Court and the case was retried as a bench trial. The case is often erroneously believed to be the last jury trial in India, but there were several trials afterwards that used juries, some well into the ...
The Maharaj Libel Case was an 1862 trial in the Supreme Court of Bombay, in British India. The case was initiated by Jadunath Brajratanjee Maharaj against Nanabhai Rustomji Ranina and Karsandas Mulji. It stemmed from an editorial article they had published, which accused the Vallabhacharya and Pushtimarg Sect of certain alleged controversial ...
The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, ... the High Court has 315,988 civil cases and 45,960 criminal cases pending.
The Aga Khan case was an 1866 court decision in the High Court of Bombay by Justice Sir Joseph Arnould that established the authority of the first Aga Khan, Hasan Ali Shah, as the head of the Khoja community of Bombay. [1] The case was officially a property dispute between a subset of dissident leaders of the Bombay Khojas and the Aga Khan, a ...
His Highness Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan, often referred to as the Haji Bibi Case, was a 1908 court case in the Bombay High Court heard by Justice Russell. The case was fundamentally a dispute over the inheritance of the estate of Hasan Ali Shah, a Persian nobleman with the title Aga Khan I and the hereditary leader (46th Imam) of the ...
The Caucus Case was a court case handled by Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the behest of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta at the Bombay High Court in 1905. He won the case and emerged as an outstanding lawyer in India. He won the case and emerged as an outstanding lawyer in India.
The case was dismissed, with the Court issuing some guidelines to the Sessions Court on granting bail. [5] In March 2014, Prabhudessai became the first woman from Goa to be appointed a judge of a High Court, joining the Bombay High Court as an Additional Judge. [3] [6]
A division bench of the Bombay High Court, consisting of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Gauri Godse, presided over a plea filed by a lesbian couple.The couple sought directives from the authorities to secure suitable protection for one of them, while also requesting that no coercive measures be taken against the petitioner.