The Bombay High Court has granted Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and his estranged wife, Dhanashree Verma, an exemption from the mandatory six-month cooling-off period under Section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act. This decision allows their divorce proceedings to move forward without delay. Justice Madhav Jamdar, presiding as a single-judge bench, also directed the family […]

In a significant relief for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Bombay High Court has set aside an Income Tax Department communication that questioned the board’s tax-exempt status. The ruling comes as a major victory for the cricketing body, which has long enjoyed tax exemptions for its role in promoting sports […]

On Tuesday, Bombay High Court asked Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) whether they continue on the decision to not supply additional water to the Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai) during the IPL 2018. During the hearing a PIL that was filed by NGO ‘Loksatta Movement’ in 2016, Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla’s division bench raised the […]

On Monday, in a recent development, the Bombay High Court asserted that young cricketers only wanted to make money by playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and that it was “no more a clean entertainment” as it is violating the foreign exchange rules. A division panel was hearing an appeal filed by former IPL […]