Ranjana Desai

Gujarat has enacted its Uniform Civil Code Bill 2026, establishing a common legal framework for marriage, divorce, succession, and live-in relationships across all communities, excluding scheduled tribes. The bill mandates registration for marriages and live-in unions, bans polygamy, and criminalizes forced marriages, aiming to secure women's rights and promote social harmony.

Gujarat has introduced the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 2026 Bill, aiming to standardize personal laws for marriage, divorce, succession, and live-in relationships across communities, with exemptions for Scheduled Tribes. The bill mandates registration of marriages and divorces, bans polygamy, and sets a legal framework for live-in relationships and remarriage after divorce.

Her trademark white khadi sari with red and blue border, long sleeved blouse, salt-n-pepper hair tied in a bun and the winning smile will no longer be a feature on the bench at the Bombay high court.

MUMBAI: The hearing of petitions filed by disqualified MLAs was adjourned as a fresh bench comprising Justice A.P. Shah and Justice Ranjana Desai was constituted to hear it.

Bombay High Court on Tuesday observed that while history cannot be erased at the same time it is necessary to strike a balance between rights of citizens and hurting sentiments of a particular community.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the state government to take another look at a controversial circular issued by it last year in which police officers were told not to record instructions from politicians on cases under investigation.

Ten years after the BMC decided to redevelop Bhoiwada, located in the prime central Mumbai area, under the urban renewal scheme, the project is yet to take off.

Justices Ranjana Desai and R V More of the Bombay high court on Wednesday described the state move to ask policemen not to record calls from politicians in the station diary as odd. The judges were hearing a petition filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar challenging the circular.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on a Pune resident for hiding facts while filing a public interest litigation.

Taking a strict view of illegal religions shrines, the High Court on Tuesday directed BMC to initiate demolition proceedings against the unauthorised portion of a temple structure constructed in the premises of an apartment complex in Prabhadevi.

Condemning the rampant illegal constructions across the city, the Bombay high court on Thursday said it would not grant respite to anyone who built illegal structures.

The Bombay high court lambasted the railways for lack of security measures for women commuters, questioning why women constables were not present in ladies compartments during nonpeak hours.

Any unreasonable delay in releasing a convict after he is acquitted in an appeal by the Bombay High Court amounts to illegal detention , the court observed on Wednesday.

The HC on Wednesday questioned the state about 12 of the 13 accused absconding in the City Limouzines fraud case. "We have a serious grouse about arrests," said a bench headed by Justice Ranjana Desai.

The Bombay High Court has asked a BMC corporator to respond to a petition that alleged a party office was constructed on a plot in Dharavi reserved for public purposes. “Come before us, or we will draw an adverse inference,” a division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Rajesh Ketkar told corporator Parutai Katke.

The Bombay high court posted the final hearing of the child diksha case on August 23. A division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice R V More fixed the date while hearing a petition filed by Ashok Bagricha and several others.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Ranjana Desai has been exceptionally busy, heading six significant commissions since leaving the bench. Her recent appointments include chairing the delimitation commission for Jammu and Kashmir, drafting the Uniform Civil Code for Uttarakhand and Gujarat, and now leading the Eighth Central Pay Commission.

The heat was turned on against the Mumbai police after the Bombay High Court on Wednesday ticked it off for failing to arrest four accused in the City Limouzine scam, saying they are untraceable.

A major redevelopment project, where 17 chawls are to make way for four multi-storey towers in the heart of Mumbai, has come under the Bombay high court's scanner.

Faced with the prospect of being forcibly evicted from a transit camp that they have lived in for around 20 years, a few residents of Mankhurd have approached the Bombay high court for relief.

Sending Ajmal Kasab to the gallows would make him a martyr, said his lawyers while arguing in the Bombay high court against the death penalty for the Pakistani gunman.

A sniffer dog's evidence in a criminal case cannot be discarded, the Bombay high court has held while convicting a man of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in 2007.

Justice Ranjana Desai, a judge of Bombay high court who recently upheld death penalty to 26/11 terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab, is all set to be elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court.

MUMBAI: Mumbai high court has adjourned in a case involving the mysterious death of Ramesh Kini.

The Bombay high court has directed the BMC to suggest precautionary measures to ensure that trenches are not left open.