Articles by Charul Shah
Hospital pulled up for advising chemo before biopsy results
State consumer commission says Tata Memorial Hospital doctors should have waited for reports.
Updated on Jul 16, 2012 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
HC to oversee Lakhan Bhaiyya case trial now
The trial into the fake encounter of Ramnarayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiyya will now be overseen by the Bombay high court and be conducted on a day-to-day basis. Justice RC Chavan, on June 18, ordered the sessions court to expedite the hearing of the case. Charul Shah reports.
Updated on Jun 23, 2012 12:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Advocate Seeks legal aid for undertrials
Advocate and vice president of MRCC (Mumbai Regional Congress Committee), Vijay Singh has written to the minority affairs minister, Naseem Khan, asking him to extend legal aid for all undertrials who are unable to arrange lawyers owing to their poor financial condition and, thereby, languishing in jails.
Updated on Jun 18, 2012 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Builders cannot refuse refund in stuck projects
If you have purchased a flat in an under-construction project but it is unlikely to be completed because of legal wrangles or has been declared unauthorised, the builder cannot withhold your refund.
Updated on Jun 17, 2012 02:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Builders of botched projects cannot withhold refunds
The builder cannot withhold money of a flat purchaser when the construction is unlikely to finish or is unauthorised, the district consumer forum held while finding the developer guilty of deficiency of services. The forum has asked the builder to return the money with interest.
Updated on Jun 17, 2012 01:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Consumer committee sets 45 new conditions to accept complaints
Consumer activists and lawyers practicing in consumer forums across Maharashtra have opposed a new checklist issued by the Maharashtra State Consumer Commission. They feel that the technicalities involved in the scrutiny list, which contains 45 items to be checked before a district forum accepts a complaint, will make access to consumer forums more difficult.
Updated on Jun 17, 2012 01:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Insurance firm must clear patient’s claims 2 years after death
Two years after his death, a consumer forum ordered an insurance company to pay health insurance to the wife of a cancer patient; for a complaint registered by the patient with the forum four years ago.
Updated on Jun 16, 2012 02:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
NIA fails to file 2008 Malegaon blast case charge sheet on time
For the second time in a week, a central investigating agency has managed to goof up and weaken its own case. After the CBI failed to file the chargesheet in the Adarsh society scam within the stipulated 60 days’ period last week, enabling seven of the accused to get bail, now the National Investigating Agency (NIA) has made a mistake while filing the charge sheet in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Updated on Jun 04, 2012 01:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Suits haven’t been tested yet, accused claims
Bimal Agrawal, director of Techno Trade Impex India Pvt Ltd and one of the accused in the bomb suit scam, has moved the Bombay High Court (HC) seeking direction to the state government to take delivery of the suits and put them through the necessary quality tests.
Updated on May 28, 2012 01:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Gave Kakkad sleeping pills before slitting throat, Palande tells cops
Police officers interrogating double murder accused Vijay Palande have a chilling tale to tell of how he coolly told them he had offered Karan Kumar Kakkad the choice of a painless death.
Updated on May 25, 2012 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Need consumer's consent to change insurance policy conditions: court
A company, while renewing a health insurance policy, cannot change the terms and conditions. If changes are made to the terms and conditions, it has to be done with the consent of the consumer, ruled the District Consumer Redressal Forum (DCRF).
Updated on May 23, 2012 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
‘Builders must execute agreement after accepting booking amount’
Builders must execute a flat-purchase agreement with buyers immediately after accepting the booking amount and cannot demand any further payment until the agreement is executed, the State Consumer Commission has held.
Updated on May 02, 2012 01:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Consumer forum fines Thane civic body for deficiency in services
Taking note of the complaint filed by a scrap dealer, the consumer disputes redressal forum fined the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) for deficiency in services.
Updated on Apr 06, 2012 02:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Insurance relief for families of 14 farmers killed in accidents
The District Consumer Forum, Bandra granted relief to the families of 14 farmers who died in accidents and directed insurance company ICICI Lombard to pay the insurance amount, with interest, under the government’s personal accident insurance scheme for farmers.
Updated on Mar 26, 2012 01:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Salman seeks court nod to sell car
Actor Salman Khan has moved an application before the metropolitan magistrate’s court seeking permission to sell his Toyota Land Cruiser, the car that crashed into a Bandra pavement in September 2002.
Updated on Mar 24, 2012 01:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Consumer body issues notices to shops, stores
The State Consumer Commission issued notices to shopkeepers and department stores for charging their customers for carry bags.
Updated on Mar 12, 2012 01:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Powai ‘rape’: Prosecution ignored key witnesses, failed to prove girl was a minor
The case involving the alleged rape of a girl in Powai will go down as yet another instance of the accused being acquitted because the prosecution failed to produce adequate evidence.
Updated on Mar 10, 2012 02:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Crowds gather in court, actor manages to remain calm
The premises of the city civil and sessions court in Fort was unusually crowded on Friday morning as people stopped by court number 17 to catch a glimpse of Bollywood actor John Abraham. Charul Shah reports.
Updated on Mar 10, 2012 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Cops book developer under Central act, court stops arrest
In a setback to the state government, the sessions court restrained the police from arresting a developer who had been booked under the Environment Protection Act (EPA) for allegedly encroaching on government land in Charkop.
Updated on Mar 05, 2012 01:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
'Suppression of facts amounts to deficiency of services'
Sending blood samples to another laboratory for examination without the consent of the patient amounts to suppression of fact and hence deficiency of services by the pathology lab, ruled the Consumer Forum Suburban district, Bandra, recently.
Updated on Mar 05, 2012 01:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Not respecting promise is deficiency in service: Forum
The consumer forum for the suburban district in Bandra has directed a leading firm providing learning solutions to educational institutions to pay back the amount taken to set up the system for an institute in Ahmedabad. The institute could not be started.
Updated on Feb 28, 2012 02:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
4 let off after witness says cops forced her to testify
Woman says Versova police threatened to implicate her in a fabricated case if she did not tell magistrate she saw the four torture and kill a man.
Updated on Feb 26, 2012 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
It was Jigna's 39th birthday
The characteristic flamboyance and bubbling energy for which Jigna Vora was known in Mumbai’s crime and court reporting circles was missing when she was produced before the special MCOCA court by a group of women constables on Tuesday.
Updated on Feb 22, 2012 01:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
`30,000 fine for pvt bank for refusing to clear `750 power bill
The consumer forum has directed a private bank to pay Rs30,000 compensation to an account holder after it allegedly refused to clear an electricity bill of Rs750 through the ECS (electronic clearing system) despite there being sufficient funds in the account. In its order on February 10, the forum termed the case 'deficiency in service' on part of the bank.
Updated on Feb 21, 2012 02:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Amending evidence act can improve rate of conviction: Judge
Additional sessions judge Sanjay Deshmukh, while acquitting the four accused of kidnapping and killing 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala in 2007, stressed the need for an amendment to the Indian Evidence Act.
Updated on Feb 20, 2012 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
Few celebrities, Bollywood stars turn up on voting day
While booths in Bandra, Juhu, Malabar Hill and Peddar Road are usually seen teeming with celebrities on election day, several familiar faces were missing this time around.
Updated on Feb 17, 2012 01:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sayli Udas Mankikar and Charul Shah, Mumbai
Dismal turnout in south Mumbai
While his classmates were cooling their heels on their school holiday on Thursday, Vedant Parikh, 14, who lives in Cuffe Parade, was busy knocking on the doors of his neighbours’ homes, urging them to cast their vote.
Updated on Feb 17, 2012 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Reetika Subramanian and Charul Shah, Mumbai
Couple drags doctor to court for medical negligence
A south Mumbai couple has dragged a city gynaecologist to court for alleged negligence during the delivery of their child, which resulted in complications for the mother, 32-year-old Anuja Shah.
Updated on Feb 15, 2012 01:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
'Fake notes printed on high-tech machines'
The counterfeit notes circulated by alleged members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Haroon Naik and Asrar Tailor, have been printed on highly-sophisticated and regular currency-making machines which can only be owned by a country and not by ordinary criminals, revealed the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) charge sheet.
Updated on Feb 06, 2012 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai
‘Pressure from seniors leads to failed convictions’
The acquittal of Lalit D’Souza from charges of attempt to murder barely two days after the public prosecutors failed to get a conviction in the kidnap and murder case of Mumbai teen Adnan Patrawala points to lack of legal knowledge and poor investigation by the police, say lawyers. Charul Shah reports.
Updated on Feb 02, 2012 02:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Charul Shah, Mumbai