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United News of India
3 days ago
- General
- United News of India
HC allows slaughter of animals and annual Urs of shrine in Maharashtra
LAW HC- URS Mumbai, June 3 (UNI) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed animal slaughter and celebration of annual Urs (festival that commemorates the death anniversary of a saint, typically held at their dargah ,shrine or tomb) of the shrine at Vishalgad Fort in Kolhapur, saying certain conditions should be strictly complied with during the slaughter of animals on the occasion of Bakr Id. A vacation bench of Justices Neela K Gokhale and Firdosh P Pooniwalla passed an order during the hearing of an interim application by Hazrat Peer Malik Rehan Dargah Trust, seeking permission for slaughtering animals on the specific dates. While permitting animal slaughter for Bakri Eid on June 7 and the four-day Urs from June 8 to 12 at the dargah bench clarified that the order shall apply to the petitioners as well as the dargah devotees who come there to sacrifice animals on the said days. The trust had filed an interim application in its writ plea challenging various communications issued by the director of archaeology and museums, the superintendent of police, Kolhapur, and the chief executive officer of the Kolhapur Zilla Parishad seeking a ban on slaughtering of animals and birds at Vishalgad in Shahuwadi Taluka. The authorities had claimed that the slaughtering of animals was taking place at a protected monument, and as per Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules, 1962, there was a prohibition to cook and consume food in the fort premises. However, the petitioner trust, had argued that the dargah within the fort precincts was a historical monument constructed in the 11th century and is visited and revered by both Hindus and Muslims. The trust claimed that while the animal sacrifice at the dargah was an 'integral custom', the actual sacrifice does not take place in a public place but behind closed doors on private land nearly 1.4 km away from the fort. The lawyers argued that the offerings are served to pilgrims and others at the dargah and have been a source of food to many poor people residing in the surrounding villages of the fort. UNI AAA PRS
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
Bombay HC permits animal slaughter for Bakri Eid and Urs at dargah at Vishalgad fort
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed animal slaughter for Eid al-Adha (commonly known as Bakri Eid) and Urs at the dargah at Vishalgad Fort in Kolhapur, saying certain conditions should be strictly complied with. The court permitted animal slaughter for Bakri Eid on June 7 and the four-day Urs from June 8 to 12 at the dargah at Vishalgad fort and clarified that the order shall apply to the petitioners as well as the dargah devotees who come there to sacrifice animals on the said days. A vacation bench of Justices Neela K Gokhale and Firdosh P Pooniwalla was hearing an interim application by Hazrat Peer Malik Rehan Dargah Trust, seeking permission for slaughtering animals on the said dates. The trust had filed an interim application in its writ plea challenging various communications issued by the director of archaeology and museums, the superintendent of police, Kolhapur, and the chief executive officer of the Kolhapur Zilla Parishad seeking a ban on slaughtering of animals and birds at Vishalgad in Shahuwadi Taluka. The authorities had claimed that the slaughtering of animals was taking place at a protected monument, and as per Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules, 1962, there was a prohibition to cook and consume food in the fort premises. However, the petitioner trust, through advocates Satish B Talekar and Madhavi Ayyapan, had argued that the dargah within the fort precincts was a historical monument constructed in the 11th century and is visited and revered by both Hindus and Muslims. The trust claimed that while the animal sacrifice at the dargah was an 'integral custom', the actual sacrifice does not take place in a public place but behind closed doors on private land nearly 1.4 km away from the fort. The lawyers argued that the offerings are served to pilgrims and others at the dargah and have been a source of food to many poor people residing in the surrounding villages of the fort. The Justice Gokhale-led vacation bench referred to the June 14, 2024, order of a bench of Justices B P Colabawalla and Pooniwalla that allowed animal slaughter during Bakri Eid and Urs at the said dargah. 'Considering the fact that the coordinate bench of this court in order dated June 14, 2024 has already dealt with the issue and had permitted the prayer, the same shall continue for the festival of Bakri Eid, which is on June 7 and the Urs for four days from June 8 to 12. Needless to state, the same conditions, which have been imposed in the June 14, 2024 order, shall apply to the petitioners in the present interim application and also to devotees of Dargah who come to sacrifice animals during Bakri Eid and Urs. The conditions imposed in June 14, 2024 order shall be strictly complied with,' the vacation bench noted in the order and disposed of the trust's application. The conditions include that the killing of animals or birds shall only take place in the closed premises, a private land owned by one Mubarak Usman Mujawar, and the killing of animals should not be done in an open place or a public place.
Indian Express
03-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
IDBI Bank agrees to deposit over Rs 75 lakh shares in NRI woman' account over 2019 demat fraud
After a nudge by the Bombay High Court, the IDBI Bank has assured the HC that it will procure and deposit 31,690 of her shares of Wipro India Ltd worth over Rs 75 lakh into the account of an NRI woman, who lost the shares as they were transferred from her demat account without her sanction in 2019. The bank said it will procure the same amount of shares and deposit them in the woman's newly opened demat account. The court also asked Cuffe Parade police to continue the probe against complicit bank officials. A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela K Gokhale on April 30 passed an order on the plea of the 48-year-old woman, originally from Mulund. The HC had earlier pulled up Mumbai police for 'shameful delay' in action on the woman's complaint and had also asked the IDBI Bank to repay the amount to her. The petitioner was issued shares in lieu of her years of service till 2005 and had opened a demat account with IDBI in 2004, with the shares' value as per the 2019 statement being Rs 75.99 lakh. But she later come to know a person gained illegal access to her demat account and sold large amounts of her shares. On April 15, Mumbai police informed the HC that the Cuffe Parade police station registered the FIR against the bank and its officials for offence of forgery among others and the FIR was transferred to property cell, CID, Mumbai. The bench had also pulled up IDBI Capital Markets and Securities Ltd for not showing seriousness in the case and taking no action against the concerned employee. On Wednesday, advocate Mayur Khandeparkar for IDBI Bank submitted its affidavit, which stated that the bank will take necessary steps to procure 31,690 shares of Wipro India within three weeks and the same will be deposited in her newly opened demat account with the bank. The IDBI Bank said after crediting the shares in her demat account, it will inform the police and the said shares will be kept under freeze. The bank said the freeze would be lifted on completion of the investigation by police and as per HC directions. 'We make it clear that IDBI Bank is depositing the said shares without prejudice to their rights and contentions and the petitioner is accepting the deposits of the same without prejudice to her rights and contentions,' the HC noted.
Indian Express
27-04-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
Bombay HC asks state govt to put police and prison manuals online for social awareness
The Bombay High Court recently directed the state government to consider publishing police and prison manuals on its official websites and said it was important to put out such critical information for the public at large and relatives of the inmates. The HC was hearing a plea seeking implementation of the Central state's 2022 advisory for terminally ill and the Maharashtra Prisons (Review of Sentences) Rules. The HC said that social media should be used for propagating information about prison manuals and the public had a right to know what is in the prison manual. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela K Gokhale was hearing plea by one Arun Bhelke alias Rajan alias Aditya Patil from Pune who was arrested by the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in September 2014 along his wife Kanchan Nanaware alias Bhoomi alias Sonali Patil, an alleged Maoist operative. After developing terminal-illness, Nanaware's bail plea was rejected by sessions court, however the HC later referred her to a medical board that recommended heart and lung transplant. However, she died in custody in 2021. Representing Bhelke, senior advocate Gayatri Singh submitted that the documents related to important provisions concerning prison healthcare are not available online and they remain inaccessible to inmates. The HC raised concerns over health facilities in Maharashtra's jails and sought to know how many medical practitioners are there in jails across state and what the vacancies of doctors were , whether they were qualified and what medicine supply is available and if adequate ambulances are made accessible for inmates. Advocate Vijay Hiremath also submitted that even the police manual is not available to the public at large and must be made available on the website. The Court also indicated that it would constitute a committee to review provisions in police and prisons manuals. Additional Public Prosecutor Prajakta Shinde told the HC that she would take instructions from the concerned department and respond to the court's queries during the next hearing on April 28.
Indian Express
25-04-2025
- Indian Express
Badlapur accused ‘encounter': Bombay HC pulls up state for failing to register FIR against cops, directs CID to handover probe documents to SIT
Terming it as 'brazen violation' of the court directives, the Bombay High Court on Friday slammed the state government for failing to transfer the probe papers related to custodial death of the accused in Badlapur sexual assault case to the SIT and not registering an FIR, despite nearly 20 days since the high court's April 7 order. After a bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela K Gokhale warned the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of initiating contempt proceedings for not complying with its orders, Maharashtra CID chief and Additional Director General of Police (Addl DGP) Prashant Burde said to the court that the case papers will be handed over forthwith, which the court accepted. A 23-year-old janitor, arrested in August 2024 for the alleged sexual assault of two minor girls at a school in Badlapur in Thane district, was shot dead while he was being transported in a police vehicle on September 23 last year. The HC said the documents related to the accidental death report (ADR) of the magistrate shall be handed over on Friday by Superintendent of Police Prashant Waghunde of CID, an investigating officer (IO) to the Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police, who was directed to supervise the Special Investigation Team (SIT), so as to enable the SIT to undertake the probe. The magistrate's ADR submitted to the high court in January found that five police officers, including a police driver, were responsible for the death of the accused. The magistrate had said in the report that he 'found substance' in the 'false encounter' allegations made by the parents of the deceased. On April 7, the high court passed a judgment on a plea by the father of the accused and formed an SIT to be supervised by Additional Joint Commissioner of Police Lakhmi Gautam and to be headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police. It had directed it to probe the death by following principles laid down by the Supreme Court in Lalita Kumari case, which includes mandatory registration of an FIR. It had directed the CID to hand over the case papers within two days. Earlier this week, The Indian Express reported that despite the HC order, neither the SIT had been constituted nor an FIR registered. On Friday, during the pre-lunch session, the bench said it came to know that the state has not complied with its orders as the HC registry received a letter from a state-appointed judicial commission headed by the retired Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court seeking copies of the ADR. Expressing displeasure, the judges orally remarked, 'You may have filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court (challenging HC order) on April 9. As on date, there is no stay order from HC. It means our order still holds the ground. Rule of law should be followed…Or else, we will be constrained to issue contempt of court notice.' Justice Gokhale orally remarked, 'First and foremost, this should not have happened. On your own, the investigation agency should have registered an FIR earlier. But it did not. Now you have not followed our order. What prevents you from transferring papers? Had you been so aggrieved, sought urgent hearing before SC, which was not done. This is the case where the criminal contempt proceedings have to be issued today itself. We are appalled. This is a brazen violation of our order. ' Justice Mohite-Dere questioned, 'Is there any sanctity to our orders or not? What is the problem in handing over papers from one unit of police to another?'. In the post lunch session, Gautam said he had constituted his team of officers who will be a part of the SIT and was awaiting papers from the CID. Public prosecutor Hiten Venegaonkar, representing the state government, submitted that CID was under the impression that the Supreme Court proceedings on its SLP would get influenced if it had handed over the papers. The HC bench termed the justification 'preposterous.' Senior advocate Manjula Rao, appointed as amicus curiae to assist the court, said it was clear that the authorities wanted to protect the persons involved in the case and giving them concessions will send a wrong message to the public. After Waghunde told the bench that he had been instructed by higher authorities not to hand over papers, the high court said it did not intend to make him a 'scapegoat' but as an investigating officer, he was bound to follow HC order. The bench then asked CID chief to appear before it through virtual mode, who appeared for a few minutes and said the papers will be handed over 'right away'. The court adjourned the matter to April 30 for compliance.
