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The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the oldest high courts in India. [ 1 ]
Revati Mohite Dere is a judge in the Bombay High Court, India.She has written a number of significant judgments in relation to criminal procedure and police investigations in India, including cases concerning press freedom to report on criminal trials, death penalty sentences for repeated offences, and accountability within the police for false and improper investigations.
K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra; Court: Supreme Court of India: Full case name: K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra: Case history; Prior actions: Jury's Judgment for defendant, Jury() Trial-Charge-Misdirection-Reference by Judge, High Court Conviction under Sec.302 of the Indian Penal Code
The Maharaj Libel Case tried in HM Queen Victoria's Supreme Court of Bombay was hailed at the time as “the most extraordinary of any case tried in any of Her Majesty’s Courts in India” [34] (The Indian Reformer, June 6, 1862, quoted in Mulji 1865, pp. App. 163). It was covered daily by medias in India and even in Europe as one of the ...
In 2010 he was appointed as a Principal Judge to the Bombay City Civil Court and in that same year while presiding over the 2008 Mumbai attacks case he pronounced the death penalty to Ajmal Kasab on terrorism related charges, [4] The judgement was later confirmed by the Bombay High Court and upheld by the Supreme Court of India after which ...
The Bombay High Court was closed to show respect for him, and several speeches were made in his memory, including one by former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 1985, a statue of Chagla was unveiled and placed within the High Court outside the Chief Justice's Court where he once served. The inscription on the statue plinth reads:
Of the nine convicted for life by the trial court, Bombay High Court acquitted five for want of evidence, but upheld the sentence in respect of the remaining four. [28] The judgment, called "landmark" by BBC journalist Sanjoy Majumder, brought the case to an end. The case has the legacy of being "one of the country's most controversial and high ...
Bharati Harish Dangre (born 10 May 1968) is a sitting judge of the Bombay High Court in Maharashtra, India.Dangre has adjudicated in several significant cases concerning constitutional law, including the validity of affirmative action in the form of reservations for the Maratha caste in Maharashtra, the interpretation of child sexual abuse laws in India, and the implementation of the Goods and ...