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Time of India
02-08-2025
- Time of India
Porsche case accused gets three days' bail to attend father's funeral
Pune: The Bombay high court granted three days' bail with effect from Saturday to an aviation spare parts businessman, arrested in the Porsche Taycan car crash case, to attend the funeral of his father. The businessman's lawyer, Abid Mulani, told TOI: "As per the high court direction, the Yerawada Central Prison released my client on bail after we filed a bond of Rs25,000 with cash surety in the like amount before the special court in the city hearing the Porsche case." A single-judge bench of justice Ashwin Bhobe, in its bail order on Friday late evening, directed the businessman to surrender before the jail by 12pm on Aug 5. Mulani, who appeared before HC via videoconferencing, filed an interim plea to release his client on bail for three days to attend the funeral of his father (92), who passed away on Friday late evening because of old age. You Can Also Check: Pune AQI | Weather in Pune | Bank Holidays in Pune | Public Holidays in Pune Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray did not oppose the bail plea. The businessman was arrested on Aug 19, 2024, for his alleged role in the manipulation of blood alcohol tests of two minors, who were accompanying the 17-year-old driver of the car at the time of the accident. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like I thought my dad was 'boring'. Now, I'm learning that boring stuff is often what matters most CNA Read More Undo Two young software engineers were killed after the Porsche Taycan car, driven by a city builder's teenage son, hit their bike at Kalyaninagar around 2.30am on May 19, 2024. The teenager, who was behind the wheel, was returning home to Wadgaon Sheri with his two friends, also minors, in the rear seats, and his family driver after partying with a group of friends at two pubs in Mundhwa to celebrate the completion of their Class XII board exam. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Friendship Day wishes , messages and quotes !
Hindustan Times
29-06-2025
- Hindustan Times
HC comes to the rescue of POSH survivor, strike down her transfer orders
Jun 29, 2025 07:06 AM IST MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on June 25 came to the rescue of an assistant professor at a Sanskrit college who was abruptly transferred from Nashik to Bhilwara in Rajasthan and later to Mathura in Uttar Pradesh after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against another professor at the college. The court cancelled her transfers and allowed her to resume her work in Nashik. (Shutterstock) The division bench of justice Ravindra Ghuge and justice Ashwin Bhobe said, 'No teacher can be treated in this manner, and surely not a lady teacher.' The judges added that she had a 3-year-old child who was under medication and needed regular treatment. The bench found that the transfer orders were triggered by her Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) complaint and struck them down. The judges were displeased at how abruptly her complaint had been closed without a conclusion, and asked the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to reopen her POSH complaint and follow it through. The court also granted her 50% of her wages from October 2023 to July 31, 2025, when she is expected to report at the Nashik campus of the institute. In 2024, the woman had challenged the transfer orders in the high court, saying that because of them she had been forced into involuntary unemployment until she resumed work and had not been receiving her salary since 2023. She said that she had joined the Mumbadevi Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalay in April 2018. In June 2023 when she she filed a sexual harassment complaint against assistant professor Manoj Kumar Dubey, an FIR was registered at the Gamdevi police station against the assistant professor. Her complaint was referred under the POSH Act to the ICC. Ten days after the committee met, they closed her complaint saying that they could not reach any specific conclusion based on her complaint against Dubey. A month after the Gamdevi police filed a charge-sheet against the assistant professor, the woman was first transferred to Bhilwara and later to Mathura. She requested the transfers be cancelled but when the institute took no action she turned to the high court.
Hindustan Times
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Dependent parents of deceased govt employee entitled to family pension: HC
MUMBAI: The dependent parents of a deceased, unmarried government employee are entitled to family pension, the Bombay high court has ruled. 'We sincerely believe that if dependent parents have to keep their mind, body and soul together, law must ensure that they receive pension for sustenance,' said a division bench of justices Ravindra Ghuge and Ashwin Bhobe, while directing the Maharashtra government to clear the family pension proposal of a septuagenarian couple from Akola, who lost their son in 2008. In their petition, Vasantrao Deshmukh, 75, and his wife Snehalata, 75, claimed they were denied family pension after their unmarried son died due to a snake bite while working at a tribal school in October 2008. Two years later, in September 2010, the petitioners approached the project officer of the local Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) for family pension. ITDPs are designated areas where tribal people make up 50% or more of the total population. However, in November 2010, the authorities informed the petitioners that the biological parents of a deceased state government employee are not eligible for family pension. This prompted the couple to approach the high court. The advocates for the petitioners pointed out a government resolution (GR) dated January 22, 2015, issued by the state finance department, which said that family pension should be granted to 'wholly dependent parents of a deceased single government servant'. The state government, however, opposed the petition, contending that the biological parents of a deceased single government employee are not covered under the definition of family under the Maharashtra Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1982. It added that the January 2015 GR could not be applied retrospectively to the case. After hearing both sides, the bench ruled that the couple was eligible to receive family pension, saying the GR was issued with a laudable objective to achieve social security for helpless aged parents. It added that the GR should be made applicable at least to the dependent parent/s surviving on the date of the GR, even if their single child died prior to its issuance. The court directed the state government to approve the petitioner's proposal, pay the arrears due and start paying them a regular pension from July 2025.
Hindustan Times
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Central govt staff don't need prior nod to run for and hold office in trade unions: HC
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court last week struck down an office memorandum issued by the atomic energy department (AED), which required their employees to seek prior permission to contest elections and become office-bearers of trade unions and restricted their tenure to four years. The division bench of justices Ravindra Ghuge and Ashwin Bhobe also clarified that employees of any ministry or department of the cenral government, including the AED, do not require prior permission become office-bearers of any association or trade union whose membership is restricted to employees of the department. 'Under the provisions of the Trade Unions Act, 1926, employees working in public or private sector undertakings can come together and form a trade employer per se has no role to play with regard to the internal affairs of the trade union,' the division bench said while striking down restrictions imposed by the atomic energy department through an office memorandum dated August 29, 2022. The memorandum restrained central government employees from contesting elections or becoming office-bearers of any body, including trade unions, without prior permission of the government, and restricted their tenure to two terms or five years, whichever is longer. The National Federation of Atomic Energy Employees had challenged the office memorandum in the high court last year. The government opposed the petition, expressing serious concerns about productivity of elected office-bearers and claiming they would develop vested interests, lost interest in their jobs and not perform their duties faithfully. The bench, however, refused to accept the contention. 'In a country which is administered by the rule of democracy and which is recognised to be one of the largest democracies in the world, no employer can be permitted to impose restrictions on the freedom of members of a trade union in either contesting elections or continuing as office-bearers,' the court said. 'These issues are governed only by the Constitution of the trade union which is necessary under the Trade Unions Act, 1926,' said the bench. 'No employer can create such service rules which would create an embargo on the terms and conditions or the clauses of the Constitution of a trade union.'
