A formal notification issued by the Maharashtra Law and Judiciary Department today specified that Venegaonkar has been appointed for a term of 2 years starting today.
The Bombay High Court today called for the reply of the Central and State governments in a plea for guidelines to curb the circulation of derogatory remarks about dead persons on media platforms.
Petitioner seems interested only in initiating cases against the public officers and keeping them pending like Sword of Damocles, the Aurangabad bench remarked in its order.
Noting that there is a history of civil dispute between complainant and co-accused, and that present applicant had no act attributed to him, the FIR was quashed against him.