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…
28 July 2018 – Renowned actor Zayed Khan has pledged to support Dadabhai Bilhore, who fills potholes in Mumbai as a tribute to his son, who tragically died in a pothole-related accident. This commitment was made during a seminar organized…
21 September 2016 – In a relief to environmental activists, the Bombay High Court refused to interfere with an order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Pune, which is hearing complaints against two city-based developers for allegedly flouting green…
In a ruling likely to have a far-reaching impact on real estate projects across the country, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has determined that fire safety provisions, parking spaces, and recreation grounds must be included when calculating a realty project’s…
The Court Metropolitan Magistrate at Andheri directed a prominent Mumbai based Restaurateur to pay 10 per cent (10%) interim compensation to the holder of a bounced cheque under section 143A of the Negotiable Instrument Act, 1881. The case involved failure…
The court of the learned Metropolitan Magistrate Bhoiwada ordered the husband of the newly married woman to pay Rs. 40,000/- per month to her by the way of interim maintenance under Section 23 of the Protection of Women from Domestic…
The Court of Sessions at Dindoshi, Mumbai granted Anticipatory Bail to a Mumbai-based senior citizen couple who had been arraigned as Accused in an FIR registered under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. Advocate Aditya Pratap represented the…