Narsi Benwal is a Principal Correspondent at Bar & Bench and LiveLaw. He specializes in crime and justice, the judicial system, and various aspects of law and legal affairs, including criminal law, civil and family law, and litigation, with a keen focus on court proceedings and legal reform. Narsi's insights and expertise have been featured in prominent publications such as Bar & Bench and LiveLaw.
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By: Narsi Benwal
The Bombay High Court on Monday (June 15) directed the Maharashtra Government to ensure protection is granted to former high court judge Justice Gautam Patel, who has been facing threats over a 2024 judgment he delivered with regards to the spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra community. Reportedly, Justice Patel and his family have been facing threats for the last 10 months now over a judgment...
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In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court held that a divorced woman though can continue to seek maintenance based on a decree, from the husband's estate or properties even after his death, however, she cannot seek enhancement of the same maintenance from the said estate after his death. [Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 284]A division bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice...
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An alleged act of sexual harassment if occurring in a mode of transport not provided by the employer of either the accused or the victim, cannot be entertained under the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (POSH Act), held the Bombay High Court. [Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 290]It therefore quashed the proceedings against...
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The Bombay High Court has upheld the dismissal of a man from his service, on the ground that he used filthy language against his employer and also the fisher women while he was tasked for driving the Koli community women and transporting their fish to market on a daily basis. [2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 291]Single-judge Justice Sandeep Marne said that an employee who has become incalcitrant and...
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The Bombay High Court recently ordered a hacking group - FulcrumSec not to leak or make public, the 'stolen' sensitive information pertaining to children from thousands of schools in Mumbai and abroad run by Pratiksha Foundation Charitable Trust, for which the group has demanded USD 750,000. The High Court has also ordered Google and others to block the email IDs used by the hacking group so...
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The Bombay High Court while emphasising on the importance of trees, recently made it clear that compensatory afforestation, which is usually done after cutting down trees for a development work, cannot be permitted to be done at a distant or remote place and rather must be done in the close proximity of the very place from where the trees were initially felled.A division bench of Justice...
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The Indian National Congress (INC) has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, 2025 arguing that it violates the fundamental guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of India including principles of reasonableness and proportionality, freedom of speech and expression, etc.
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An employee after facing a 'routine' transfer, if complaints to the Police and brings policemen in the office premises to harass the employer is a misconduct, held the Bombay High Court recently.Further, the act of an employee making serious allegations about the employer to various authorities, both related and unrelated, on being transferred, too would amount to a misconduct,...
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The Bombay High Court recently, while quashing a rape FIR, ordered the Director General of Police (DGP), Maharashtra to circulate the details of the complainant woman to all the police stations across the State so that the police exercises caution in future on receiving any complaint from the said woman as she is "habitual" in filing false rape, domestic violence and cruelty cases.
