Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 23 (ANI): The Bombay High Court has asked Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to prepare a roadmap to repair 20 worst pothole-ridden roads in Mumbai by next week.

Mumbai Nov 24 PTI Mumbai NCB chief Sameer Wankhedes father Dnyandev Wankhede on Wednesday challenged before the division bench of the Bombay High Court the order of its single-judge bench that had refused to restrain Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik from making comments and putting social media posts against the anti-drug agency officer and his family In his appeal mentioned before a division bench led by Justice SJ Kathawala Dnyandev Wankhede contended that since the single-judge bench had held that Maliks statements against Sameer Wankhede had stemmed out of malice the minister should have been restrained from continuing making defamatory comments against him and his family He requested the division bench that pending the final disposal of his appeal the high court pass an order of temporary injunction restraining Malik and his agents from making any defamatory comments against the Wankhedes On Monday a single-judge bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar had refused to grant the Wankhede senior any interim relief in his defamation suit filed against Malik a leader of Maharashtras ruling party NCP Malik has been raising a slew of allegations against Sameer Wankhede after the Mumbai NCB team allegedly seized drugs from a cruise ship earlier last month Challenging the November 22 order Dnyandev Wankhede said the single-judge bench had been wrong in denying him interim relief in his defamation suit filed against Nawab Malik In his appeal mentioned before the division bench Dnyandev Wankhede said that the appeal was being filed only to a limited extent as he was aggrieved and dissatisfied by the findings recorded by the single-judge bench in its order The prayer for injunction was rejected under the impression that the plaintiff was seeking the same in a blanket manner which was not the case the appeal reads He said that the interviews given to news channels and statements and social media posts etc made by Malik against the Wankhedes were highly defamatory and libellous as the same contained incorrect facts innuendos and conclusions They were a deliberate attempt on Maliks part to knowingly and maliciously defame him his son Sameer and his family Dnyandev Wankhede said in the appeal Maliks statements not just caused an irreparable loss to his and his family members reputation but also breached their right to live with their dignity intact He said the single-judge bench failed to appreciate that besides Sameer Wankhede no one in the family is a public official and therefore their lives were not up for public scrutiny The appeal claims that after concluding that Maliks statements and social media posts had been actuated by malice and animosity the bench shouldnt have denied relief to Dnyandev Wankhede Despite noting that Malik had made statements without verifying them first the high court should not have granted him a free reign to continue his tweets etc the appeal said Dnyandev Wankhhede further contended that the single-judge benchs conclusion that accusations could not be considered as totally false was wrong since it had itself held that they were made without due verification His appeal is likely to be heard by the division bench on Thursday In his interim application seeking such relief from the single-judge bench Dnyandev Wankhede had cited Maliks tweets and public statements in which the latter had alleged among other things that Sameer Wankhede was born a Muslim but had falsely claimed that he belonged to a designated scheduled caste to secure his central government job Sameer Wankhede had denied all the allegations The Wankhede senior had sought an interim relief that Malik should be prohibited from making any defamatory statements or tweets social media posts etc against him Sameer Wankhede or any of their family members Justice Jamdar however had held that imposing such a blanket prohibition upon Malik was not possible in the present case The single-judge bench had held that though it seemed apparent that Maliks statements and tweets against the NCB officer had actuated out of malice and animosity the allegations the minister had made against Sameer Wankhede did not seem prima facie on the face of it to be completely false The bench however had also said that the state minister had made several such statements before verifying facts and had directed Malik to henceforth make public statements or comments against Wankhede and his family only after a reasonable verification of facts PTI AYA NP NSK NSK

Mumbai: While hearing the defamation suit filed against Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik by Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s father. The court has told Malik to file an affidavit that his claims about NCB officer Sameer Wankhede is a Muslim by birth, and the birth certificate he tweeted, are verified, the Bombay High Court said today while hearing the defamation suit Wankhede’s father has slapped on the minister.  Questioning if he verified all he tweeted – as the spokesman of a national political party and a responsible citizen — the court said, “I want an affidavit from you that the information is verified.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 8 (ANI): Responding to the allegations made by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik over his sister-in-law Harshada Dinanath Redkar's involvement in the drug business, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede on Monday said that he was not even in the service when the case was registered.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Sunday set aside a special court order remanding Maharshtra’s former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to judicial custody, and sent him to the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) custody till November 12. The ED in its application said the special court, by remanding Deshmukh to judicial custody, had denied the agency sufficient and adequate opportunity to investigate a case that has “wide and serious ramifications” . The agency said it could interrogate Anil Deshmukh only for five days, of which two were holidays (Diwali).

Mumbai Sep 17 PTI The Bombay High Court on Friday said the Maharashtra government has the responsibility and liability to ensure that the shameful practice of manual scavenging is not carried out anywhere in the state A division bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Madhav Jamdar sought to know from the state government if it had carried out a survey identifying manual scavengers across the state after the enactment of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act in 2013 and what steps it had taken to rehabilitate them The court also sought to know how many manual scavengers had died at work since 1993 and if the state government had awarded compensation to their family members The court was hearing a petition filed by three women whose husbands were employed as manual scavengers and had died while cleaning a septic tank at a private society in suburban Govandi here in December 2019 The petitioners had sought compensation from the government as per provisions of the Act The court on Friday directed the Mumbai suburban collector to pay each of the petitioners a sum of Rs 10 lakh by way of compensation The amount shall be recovered by the Collector from the person or entity responsible for the death of the petitioners husbands The amount has to be paid within a period of four weeks the court said Government pleader Purnima Kantharia told the court that the company which had hired the victims had deposited three cheques of Rs 125 lakh for each of the petitioners after the incident The court directed for the cheques to be handed over to the petitioners and said the remaining amount should be handed over to them by the collector The court noted that considering the importance of the issue it was of the view that it should monitor the same to ensure that justice is dispensed The Act of 2013 has clearly stated that all state governments have to ensure that manual scavenging is completely eradicated from the society However despite such strict legislative intent this shameful practice continues and this should shock the collective conscience of the society the court said The state government is liable and responsible to ensure that an end is put to this practice Several courts including the Supreme Court have held from time to time that manual scavenging is a humiliating and shameful method of employing people from the lower strata of the society to carry out the hazardous job of cleaning septic tanks the court said The court directed the state government to submit all the information it has sought on October 18 when it would hear the plea next The bench also sought to know the status of the FIR lodged by the Govandi police station in the case of the deaths of the petitioners husbands PTI SP ARU ARU

Mumbai, September 13: A minor rape survivor has been allowed by the Bombay High Court to terminate 29-week pregnancy after a report by an expert panel, appointed by the High Court, said that the continuation of pregnancy could impact the mental health of the victim and she was “anguished.” Reports inform that the court has, […]