Bombay High Court declines to pass any pre-emptive order against Maratha quota leader Manoj Jarange-Patil's planned "March to Mumbai," holding it cannot restrain a protest merely on apprehension and that "State machinery is capable of handling all these situations."
Bombay High Court deprecates a Pune-only, 12-day blanket ban on alcohol sale during Ganesh Chaturthi as irrational and warns it would flood hospitals with distressed habitual drinkers, prompting the Collector to cut the ban down to two days.
Bombay High Court voices sharp displeasure at an 18-year delay in implementing a 2008 state policy promising ownership housing to Mumbai's municipal sanitation workers, holding the law does not permit discriminating against the "most exploited, marginalized" rung of the municipal workforce.