Maharashtra
Bombay high court: Mumbai restaurant with eating house permit can’t serve herbal hookah on the menu.

MUMBAI: Bombay high court held herbal hookah cannot be on the menu in a restaurant operating on an eating house license from the Brihan mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
It cannot be countenanced that grant of a license to conduct an eating house is deemed to include a license to conduct Hookah activities and the civic chief is certainly required to consider issues that could be a nuisance or dangerous said A bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and R N Laddha on April 24 denying permission to ‘The Orange Mint’ a lounge in Chembur to serve herbal hookah (HH).
The HC held that the Mumbai municipal Commissioner Iqbal Chahal has appropriately exercised his discretion under the Mumbai Municipality Act, to prevent HH being served at the lounge. The BMC is noted expected to keep a “continuous vigil’’ on hookah activity of the petitioner said the HC adding, “Once it is clear that hookah activities are not part of the Eating House license conditions, such activity cannot be permitted”.
Justice Kulkarni authoring the order, gave an illustration saying, “In a restaurant or eating house, where children, women and elderly visit for refreshments/eating, it cannot be expected that hookah is one of the menus being served and more particularly of the category as offered by the petitioner using flame or burnt charcoal.’’ The HC said, “This would amount to an absolute nuisance’’ at the restaurant and were it to become a reality, “the impact it would create on such customers at the eating house can just be imagined”.
Under Section 394 of the Municipal Corporation Act, restaurants are issued an eating house license to operate. Section 394, said the HC prohibits certain trades, processes and operated without a license and empowers BMC To seize, destroy to prevent danger or nuisance.
But the section cannot be interpreted to mean such license would permit the restaurant to serve ‘herbal hookah’ said the HC whose order was made available on May 1.
“The Municipal Commissioner in granting license is certainly required to apply his mind to such issues which are dangerous to life, health or property of the citizens, as also, on issues which are likely to create a nuisance…’’the HC said.
Entrepreneur, S B Parkhi, the petitioner through her counsel counsel Mayur Khandeparkar submitted that the license issued by the BMC would include serving of ‘herbal’ hookah. The challenge was to April 18, 2023 order assed by the Medical Officer Health, M/West
Ward, directing to stop serving such herbal hookah within seven days, else they
eating house license shall be revoked, without any further notice.
Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) lawyer Kunal Waghmare took the stand that an eating house license would not permit any such hookah activity.
Authoring the order, Justice Kulkarni said the section cannot be interpreted “narrowly”.
“On a holistic reading of Section 394 of the MMC Act, the contention of the petitioner that the eating house license granted to her permits “hookah activities” or conducting any “hookah parlour” under the terms and conditions of the eating home license, is totally untenable,’’ held the HC adding, “ The canvass of Section 394 of the MMC Act, is quite broad to take within its ambit articles, trade, operations, which are dangerous to life, health or which are likely to create nuisance, as quite extensively described in the provision”.
The HC reasoned that the legislatures’ intention can be derived from the clear wordings that include in its ambit any article, trade, process or operation which in the opinion of the civic chief are dangerous to life, health or property or are likely to create nuisance “either from its nature” or by reason “of the manner” in which or the conditions under which the same are or are proposed to be used and carried on.
Maharashtra
Mumbai Police equipped with modern laboratories and technology: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis

Mumbai: Mumbai Police has equipped itself with modern technology to curb cyber crime and cyber fraud. Accordingly, Mumbai Police inaugurated three cyber labs including a forensic lab, a special van, an intercept van and other modern equipment at the hands of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Speaking on the occasion, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the police has been modernized to curb cyber fraud and online fraud and the police will use these modern equipment to solve crimes ranging from cyber fraud to other crimes.
Fadnavis said that the way incidents like digital arrests are happening today by fooling people online, the police has brought significant revolution in the investigation methods and other things to curb these incidents. He said that special help rooms have also been set up in police stations to help women, in which women will get immediate help. He said that a special van has also been prepared for women so that they can get immediate help. Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Pansalkar, Special Police Commissioner Devin Bharti, Joint Police Commissioner Satyanarayan Chaudhary and senior officers were present at the event.
Maharashtra
Bir Mecca Masjid bomb blast implementation of UAPA

Mumbai: Police has implemented UAPA Act in the Bir Ard Masla Mecca Masjid blast case. On the midnight of March 30, Vijay Agon and Shri Ram Ashok placed a bomb in the mosque and exploded it. This explosion was done with the help of jetliner and detonator. In this case, the police had earlier registered a case under Arms Act and other sections, but after that Muslim organizations had demanded to prosecute the accused under UAPA Act and NSA.
The Beed blast was investigated by the local crime branch, in which the crime branch found that the explosion was very powerful and detonators were also used along with jetliner rods. On this basis, UAPA Act has been implemented on the recommendation of the Crime Branch. Police have registered a case against both the terrorists under sections 16 and 18 of UAPA. Since the Beed blast, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is investigating it along with the police. The ATS is investigating the connection and financing of terrorists in this case, including how jetliner rods were made available to the accused and who provided them jetliner rods without license or permit. Along with this, investigation is also going on to find out how many more people and conspirators are involved in this case. ATS said that investigation is going on every aspect and point of the Beed bomb blast, however, ATS has so far questioned many people in this case, including family members and well-wishers of the accused as well as their friends and acquaintances. ATS is trying to uncover the conspiracy before the blast in the Beed Mecca Masjid blast case because before the blast, accused Vijay Agon had released a video and uploaded it on the status threatening Muslims to remove the mosque and only after that the blast took place here. The local police had also registered a case of spreading religious hatred against the accused a day earlier and the mosque was blown up the next day.
Crime
Actor Ajaz Khan’s Wife Fallon Guliwala Granted Bail in Drugs Case

Mumbai: Fallon Guliwala, wife of actor Ajaz Khan, who was arrested in November 2024 after narcotics were recovered from her residence, has been granted bail by a special court in Mumbai.
Guliwala had been in custody for over four months. The court has imposed certain conditions for her bail, including the submission of her passport, a restriction on travel, and mandatory attendance before the investigating officer three times a week until the chargesheet is filed.
Her lawyer, Ayaz Khan, argued that she was unaware of the recovered items and that she was not the only occupant of the premises. He also mentioned that the CCTV system was turned off during the raid, and no videography or photography was conducted.
Special Public Prosecutor Vibhavari Pathak opposed the bail plea, stating that a prima facie case existed against Guliwala.
Considering that the seizure process had already been completed, the court granted bail but with strict conditions.
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