4 March 2017 – Stressing that “unauthorized tree cutting as well as hill cutting is an offense to the environment,” the National Green Tribunal’s Pune bench has directed Mumbai-based Vikas Developers not to illegally cut trees on a hilly plot…

18 January 2018 – Could the fatalities in Monday’s fire have been prevented? Nine years after the Maharashtra government proposed special fire safety rules for buildings, the law is yet to be enacted. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by…

14 July 2018 – No sooner had the Maharashtra government agreed to allow outside food inside multiplexes and regulate the prices of food and beverages sold inside multiplexes and theatres, than DNA spoke to Advocate Aditya Pratap, who had moved…

20 April 2024 – The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to respond to allegations of police inaction in investigating a prostitution racket operating in Lokhandwala. The court instructed the Advocate-General to appear before it on Thursday…