It was built by ex-CM Manohar Joshi's son-in-law after changing reservation

The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing of a petition challenging the Bombay High Court order to demolish the controversial Sun Dew Apartment on Prabhat Road.

The multi-storeyed commercial complex is owned by Girish Vyas, the son-in-law of former chief minister Manohar Joshi.

A division bench comprising Justice RV Raveendran and Justice Markenday Katju adjourned the hearing by six weeks to enable the parties to explore the possibility of finding an amicable solution to the issue.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken note of the indiscriminate destruction of mangroves along the New Link Road near Dahisar. On Thursday, a BMC demolition squad razed illegal sheds constructed over the green space.

A Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) skywalk contractor and two BMC road contractors were among those whose illegal sheds were removed by the BMC.

DNA had carried a series of reports in January highlighting how these units were destroying the green cover.

Chennai, Feb 27: Protesting Chennai lawyers, who are boycotting the High Court, are on fast and observing a black day on Friday.

They are condemning the violence in the High Court and demanding immediate action against police officials who carried out February 19 baton charging on lawyers in the Madras High Court premises.

The courts are however, are functioning and there are no report of any untoward incident.

Earlier, the apex court has asked the Tamil Nadu Government to justify the entry of police into the Madras High Court premises on February 19.

The Centre's Rs10,000-crore Green India Programme (GIP) for wildlife protection and afforestation suffered a major setback on Thursday when the Supreme Court (SC) stalled transfer of money raised by states to the national exchequer.

About Rs9,000 crore is lying with the ad hoc compensatory afforestation fund management and planning authority (Campa). A bench headed by chief justice KG Balakrishnan asked states to submit within four weeks site-specific schemes on utilising the money.

GIP involves locating at least one acre of degraded forest or other land for planting trees using money collected by states and union territories (UTs) and deposited with Campa under the ministry of environment and forest.

A special court in Kottayam sentenced on Thursday two medical students to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for ragging and raping their junior in 2005.

Renjith Varghese, 24, and Sherin Shamsudeen, 25, the first and second accused, have also been imposed a fine of Rs20,000 each. The third accused, 24-year-old Shafeeq Yusuf, has been sentenced to three years in jail.

The court had acquitted six of the nine accused, including three former members of the School of Medical Education, Kottayam, on Wednesday.

The three accused — SME former principal KM Mariam, former director KN Muraleedharan Nair and former psychiatry HoD Saibunneesa Beevi — were charged with conspiracy and destruction of evidence.

A division bench of Gujarat high court comprising justice M S Shah and Justice Akil Kureshi has issued notice to the state government while admitting a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act of 2003 and Rules of 2008.

The state government had enacted the act, which made prior permission of district magistrate mandatory before performing any ceremony of conversion or participating in such ceremony and requiring any person converted to give intimation to the district magistrate. The act came into force in 2008.