Bombay HC Grants Relief To Adtrack, Says Housing Federation Tried To 'Wriggle Out' Of Hoarding Deal

The Bombay High Court on Monday held that a housing federation was seeking to "wriggle out of contractual obligations" after changing its mind about the location of a proposed digital advertisement hoarding and granted interim protection permitting the project to proceed pending arbitration. Justice Sandeep V. Marne held that the federation had changed its mind about the site location of the hoarding and that the contractor would suffer irreparable loss if interim protection was denied. “A...

Bombay HC Denies Interim Relief To Russian Company In ₹19,500 Crore Enforcement Suit Against Tecnimont

The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to grant interim protection to Russian fertiliser company EuroChem North West-2 in its suit seeking enforcement of a Moscow court judgment worth more than Rs 19,500 crore against Italian engineering company Tecnimont S.p.A. The Court declined EuroChem's request to restrain Tecnimont from dealing with its assets in India pending adjudication of the suit. Justice Gauri Godse held that, at the pre-trial stage, the competence of the Moscow Commercial Court to...

Bombay HC Orders Release Of MPID-Attached Property After Approval Of Steel Company's Resolution Plan

The Bombay High Court has held that there could be no impediment to releasing a property attached under the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (MPID) Act after the corporate debtor's resolution plan was approved. The court held that the company was entitled to proceed on a "clean slate" under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). A Division Bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram V. Shirsat quashed a March 19, 2016 MPID attachment insofar as it related to a property...

Bombay HC Upholds MRT Orders, Holds RERA Appellate Tribunal Not Established By Appointment Of Members Alone

The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the jurisdiction of the Maharashtra Revenue Tribunal (MRT) to hear appeals under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act before the Maharashtra Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (MahaREAT) became functional. The court ruled that the appellate tribunal could not be regarded as established merely because its chairperson and members had been appointed. Justice Madhav J. Jamdar dismissed a batch of appeals filed by Runwal Constructions and related...

Bombay High Court Quashes Centre's Retrospective One-Time Spectrum Charge On Airtel, Vodafone Idea

The Bombay High Court on Monday quashed the Centre's decision imposing one-time spectrum charges retrospectively on Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea under the National Telecom Policy, 1999 (NTP-99) regime. The court held that the Union Government lacked authority under Section 4 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, or the telecom licence agreements to levy such charges for spectrum held beyond 6.2 MHz from July 2008 onwards. A Division Bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shriram V. Shirsat held...

Bombay High Court Orders Disclosure Of Bhutan Contract In Xcalibur–Oil Field Exclusivity Dispute

On 8 June, the Bombay High Court held that parties cannot shield alleged breaches of exclusivity obligations under a joint venture agreement from judicial scrutiny by withholding the very contract in question on the ground of confidentiality. Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan allowed the appeal filed by Bengaluru-based Oil Field Instrumentation India Pvt. Ltd., set aside the arbitral tribunal's order under Section 17 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, and remanded the matter for fresh...

Bombay High Court Refuses Urgent Plea Against Release Of Varun Dhawan-Starrer 'Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai'

The Bombay High Court has recently declined to entertain an urgent plea seeking reliefs against the release of the Varun Dhawan starrer film "Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai" and two songs featured in it, observing that Puja Entertainment (India) Ltd. had already approached a court in Bihar seeking similar reliefs and had failed to satisfactorily explain why it had not secured permission to withdraw those proceedings. Justice Farhan P. Dubash passed the order on June 3, two days before the film's...

"Extremely Despicable": Bombay HC Orders Police Action Over Assault On Receiver During Counterfeit Goods Raid

The Bombay High Court has directed the Superintendent of Police, Ambala, to take action in relation to the assault on a court-appointed receiver during a court-ordered search-and-seizure operation in Haryana that allegedly uncovered a huge quantity of goods bearing Unilever Plc's trademarks, labels, and artwork. The court has also ordered police protection for the receiver during further execution proceedings. The order was passed on May 29 by vacation judge Justice Shreeram V. Shirsat. The...

Bombay High Court Temporarily Restrains Use Of 'Kranti Kamat' Mark In Kamats Worldwide Trademark Suit

The Bombay High Court on May 13, 2026, granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in a trademark infringement suit filed by Kamats Worldwide Food Services Private Limited. It restrained Musa Bhai Nadaf, who runs a restaurant under the mark 'Kranti Kamat', from using the mark 'Kranti Kamat', any other mark containing the word 'Kamat', or any mark identical or similar to 'KAMATS'. Justice Advait M. Sethna, sitting in vacation court, passed the order after finding that the plaintiff had established...

Bombay High Court Orders Police To Ensure Hotel Horizon Property Handover, Flags Directors' Obstruction

The Bombay High Court recently (May 6) directed police to use reasonable force, if necessary, to ensure complete handover of Hotel Horizon Pvt Ltd's Juhu property to the successful resolution applicant. The court said the suspended directors were continuing to obstruct compliance with orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal and the High Court.A Bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram V. Shirsat was hearing a plea by former resolution professional and interim manager Pravin R...

Bombay High Court Upholds Arbitral Award Rejecting Insurer's Undisclosed Expert Report In Claim Dispute

The Bombay High Court has recently upheld an arbitral award rejecting an insurer's reliance on an undisclosed expert opinion used to reduce an insured's claim, holding that the challenge essentially sought a reappreciation of evidence. Justice Gauri Godse held the arbitral tribunal was justified in discarding the insurer's expert report. “ The expert opinion's report is also rightly not accepted by the Tribunal. It is held that the expert was appointed without any intimation to the...

Bombay High Court Orders Meta To Suspend SWISSTOURS Trademark-Infringing Instagram Account

The Bombay High Court has ordered Meta to suspend an account accused of infringing the 'SWISSTOURS' trademark after finding that the handle continued operating despite an earlier restraining order. Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh, in an order passed on May 4, directed the social media platform to take all steps within its power to suspend, lock, or disable public access to the impugned Instagram handle after noting that it remained active despite an ad-interim injunction granted in December last...