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Bombay HC disposes plea against loudspeaker use at Thakur village in Kandivali, asks petitioners to seek remedy under law
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Bombay HC disposes plea against loudspeaker use at Thakur village in Kandivali, asks petitioners to seek remedy under law

The Bombay High Court disposed of a writ plea seeking prohibition on the use of loudspeakers and other noise-emitting devices at a public premises in Thakur village, Kandivali (East). The court asked the petitioners to approach the authority concerned for the remedy available as per law. A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep V Marne on June 18 made the observation while hearing a plea filed by activist Bhavesh Premchand Kalia and lawyer Rajeev Kumar Sharma, who are also local residents, through advocate Reena Rolland. The plea sought direction to the Mumbai police commissioner to immediately prohibit the use of loudspeakers and direct the state government to strictly implement the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000. The plea also sought direction to the...
Lilavati Trust files Rs 1,000-crore defamation suit against HDFC Bank, its CEO
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Lilavati Trust files Rs 1,000-crore defamation suit against HDFC Bank, its CEO

The Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust (LKMM Trust), which oversees the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra (West), has filed a defamation suit against the HDFC Bank and its Managing Director and CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan, seeking Rs 1,000 crore in damages. The Trust along with its authorised representative and trustee Prashant Mehta filed the suit in the Bombay High Court against Jagdishan, HDFC Bank and others. The Trust filed the suit last week, claiming the bank was running a “deliberate and sustained smear campaign” against it. The Trust has also filed a criminal defamation complaint before the magistrate court in Girgaon under sections 356 (1) (defamation), 357 (breach of contract), among others, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). As per case records, the magistrate court on June 16 issu...
Bombay HC discharges CA of Chhagan Bhujbal, family in money laundering case by ED
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Bombay HC discharges CA of Chhagan Bhujbal, family in money laundering case by ED

The Bombay High Court Monday discharged the chartered accountant (CA) of NCP leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal and his family from a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in 2015.The high court, while hearing the criminal revision application by CA Shyam Radhakrishna Malpani, noted that the special court committed an error in rejecting the discharge plea in March 2021. A single-judge bench of Justice Rajesh N Laddha observed that “mere absence of due diligence by applicant does not amount to the commission or omission of an offence under Section 3 (money laundering) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).” Story continues below this ad The ED had lodged a case against Chhagan Bhujbal and others based on a complaint filed by the st...
HC upholds decision allowing Slum Rehabilitation schemes on open spaces, says 35 % area be developed as public park
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HC upholds decision allowing Slum Rehabilitation schemes on open spaces, says 35 % area be developed as public park

The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the state government’s 2022 regulation permitting non-buildable ‘reserved’ open spaces exceeding 500 square metres in the city to be used for slum rehabilitation (SR) schemes.However, it has directed that at least 35% of the vacant space on such lands used for SR Schemes must be treated as a public amenity, such as a functional and usable public park, and not as a private area for residents only. The Court emphasised on the wider impact of Regulation in Mumbai and observed, “In a city where inequality is visible in how space and services are distributed, providing formal housing to slum dwellers, within the city and not on its outskirts, is a step towards real equality. It ensures that rights and services are not limited to the privileged, but also ...
Act ruthlessly against officials aiding large-scale illegal constructions: HC to TMC Commissioner
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Act ruthlessly against officials aiding large-scale illegal constructions: HC to TMC Commissioner

The Bombay High Court on Thursday, while expressing displeasure over large-scale of illegal and unauthorised constructions with the “blessings of civic and government officials,” directed the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Commissioner Saurabh Rao to act “ruthlessly” against such officers within the parameters of law and issue suspension orders.The HC said the “Thane pattern” should set an example for all other municipal corporations in Maharashtra. A division bench of Justices Girish S Kulkarni and Arif S Doctor was hearing two matters compliance by TMC of its June 12 order that  paved the way for demolition of 17 unauthorised structures/buildings constructed on five-and-half-acre land belonging to petitioner senior citizen woman at Shil near Mumbra area, encroached by “land mafia”. Th...
HDFC Bank CEO moves Bombay HC to quash FIR based on Lilavati Trust’s complaint over ‘Rs 2 crore bribe’
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HDFC Bank CEO moves Bombay HC to quash FIR based on Lilavati Trust’s complaint over ‘Rs 2 crore bribe’

HDFC Bank Managing Director and CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan has approached the Bombay High Court challenging the First Information Report (FIR) filed against him on a complaint by Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust (LKMM Trust), which oversees the Lilavati Hospital in Bandra (West), a prominent healthcare institution in Mumbai. Jagdishan has moved the high court seeking to quash the FIR which has accused him of accepting a bribe of Rs 2.05 crore to help a group consisting of one Chetan Mehta and other erstwhile trustees to retain illegal control over the trust. When the matter came up for hearing before a bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Rajesh S Patil, Justice Patil recused himself from hearing the matter after which it was mentioned before a division bench led by Justice Sarang V Kotwal....
Bombay HC imposes Rs 1 L on PIL petitioner seeking demolition of SRA building
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Bombay HC imposes Rs 1 L on PIL petitioner seeking demolition of SRA building

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday imposed Rs 1 lakh cost on a petitioner who filed a PIL seeking demolition of a Kandivali (East) Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) project building, observing that it amounted to “an abuse of the process of law”. The HC noted that in September, 2022, another bench had dismissed an earlier plea by the petitioner seeking similar reliefs, and the said decision was binding on him as per principle of res judicata ( a matter already decided by a competent court) and there was “absence of public interest” in the plea. The PIL was filed by one Ankush Jaiswal, who claimed to be an electronic media journalist, alleging illegalities in the construction of a building with six wings in an SRA project called Bandongri Ekta Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. Story con...
Take action against encroachments on Jewish cemetery land, Bombay HC tells Panvel civic body
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Take action against encroachments on Jewish cemetery land, Bombay HC tells Panvel civic body

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) to remove unauthorised or illegal constructions on land belonging to a 200-year-old Jewish cemetery. A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep V Marne was hearing a plea by Jewish Heritage Trust, filed through its chief trustee Raymond A Gadkar alleging that certain encroachments in the form of unauthorised hutments and hoardings are made on its land reserved for Jewish community’s burial rituals and repeated complaints to PMC have availed no action. The Trust, through senior advocate A S Khandeparkar, claimed that despite ongoing proceedings before legal forums, the PMC has repeatedly failed to take any action against the alleged encroachers despite it having identified them. Story continues be...
‘Can’t dilute issue or protect wrongdoers’: Bombay HC orders probe into 2012 New Year’s Eve ‘party’ at Mankhurd children’s home
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‘Can’t dilute issue or protect wrongdoers’: Bombay HC orders probe into 2012 New Year’s Eve ‘party’ at Mankhurd children’s home

Observing that the authorities cannot protect wrongdoers or keep an issue pending for a decade, the Bombay High Court on Monday ordered a probe into an alleged party hosted on New Year’s Eve in 2012 at a home for mentally deficient children (MDC) in suburban Mumbai’s Mankhurd, consisting of 265 inmates. The court ordered the Commissioner for Persons With Disabilities to initiate an inquiry into the alleged incident within six weeks and forward the findings to the Maharashtra government which shall take appropriate action against the errant people within three months. The bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep V Marne disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in 2014 by activist Sangeeta Punekar, which had highlighted the “shocking state of affairs”, citing news r...
Man killed, seven injured after fire breaks out at Mahim eatery
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Man killed, seven injured after fire breaks out at Mahim eatery

A 38-year-old man died while seven others sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at an eatery at Dargah road in Mahim on Friday evening.The incident comes two days after the Bombay High Court (HC) held the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) responsible for a fire that broke out at a hotel in Mumbai’s Kurla area in 2015, which claimed eight lives. The incident on Friday was reported around 6.40pm after the fire broke out at the eatery on Dargah road, which is a popular pathway that connects the Mahim Dargah with the old Cadell road adjoining the Mahim station in the west. The fire originated in the eatery located on the ground floor of a two-storey structure adjoining the footpath of the Dargah road. Story continues below this ad According to the BMC’s disaste...
“Before it’s too late”: HC orders Thane commissioner to survey and take actions against illegal constructions across wards
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“Before it’s too late”: HC orders Thane commissioner to survey and take actions against illegal constructions across wards

Expressing ‘shock’ over proliferation of illegal constructions and delay in actions, the Bombay High Court has directed the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Commissioner to conduct a survey of all illegal structures across its wards including developing areas and green zones and act against them ‘before it is too late.’The HC on Thursday warned the civic body that if illegalities continue and it is unable to take action against the same, the court will have to consider whether the TMC would be required to be governed by a “different/separate machinery” under Municipal laws. A bench of Justices Girish S Kulkarni and Arif S Doctor ordered immediate inspection of seventeen unauthorised structures/buildings in TMC area by the court-appointed officer and separate inquiry into the role of erran...
FYJC admissions: HC halts effect of Maharashtra decision to apply SC/ST/OBC reservation to minority institutions
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FYJC admissions: HC halts effect of Maharashtra decision to apply SC/ST/OBC reservation to minority institutions

After the Maharashtra government refused to withdraw its decision to apply SC/ST/OBC reservation to minority trust-run junior colleges for the First Year Junior College (FYJC) admissions, the Bombay High Court on Thursday halted the effect of the decision, dealing the government a setback.The court granted the interim relief to colleges run by minority trusts and their association after finding substance in their submissions. “In our opinion, a case is made out for grant of interim reliefs. Accordingly, till further orders we direct that insofar as minority educational institutions are concerned for admissions to the FYJC with which the petitions are concerned, the mandate of social reservation shall not be made applicable to any seats in the Petitioners’ minority educational institutions....
HC to hear afresh pleas against Maratha reservation from July 18
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HC to hear afresh pleas against Maratha reservation from July 18

A three-judge bench of the Bombay High Court Wednesday said that it will hear afresh from July 18 a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the 2024 law providing Maratha reservation. The bench noted that the state government’s submission that an interim order passed last year that any applications for admissions to educational institutions or jobs at government authorities taking benefit of the impugned Act will be subject to further orders in the present proceedings still continues, therefore, it was inclined to conduct the final hearing on the pleas. The Supreme Court on May 13 had asked HC to expeditiously hear the pleas including application by students appearing for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) undergraduate and postgraduate exams of 2025. The stude...
HC holds BMC ‘negligent’, orders Rs 50 lakh  each to kin of 8 victims of Hotel City Kinara fire 
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HC holds BMC ‘negligent’, orders Rs 50 lakh  each to kin of 8 victims of Hotel City Kinara fire 

Nearly a decade after eight persons lost their lives in a fire at Kurla’s Hotel City Kinara in 2015, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday held Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) negligent and directed it to pay Rs 50 lakh each to their kin within 12 weeks. Slamming BMC for “gross negligence” over granting approvals without following norms, the HC observed that  “an utter failure of its officials in the discharge of their statutory duties” was a “proximate cause of the fire”. It said the BMC can be held “vicariously liable for acts and commission and omission of its officials”. On October 16, 2015, a fire broke out on the mezzanine level of a hotel restaurant that killed eight people. Among the victims were seven undergraduate students from Don Bosco Institute of Technology and College an...
Bombay HC grants interim protection from demolition to over 200 people residing in vicinity of Malegaon fort
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Bombay HC grants interim protection from demolition to over 200 people residing in vicinity of Malegaon fort

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted interim protection from demolition to over 200 people residing near the vicinity of a fort, an archeological site at Malegaon in Nashik district, who were sent eviction notices by the tehsildar. The HC granted interim protection from coercive action to the petitioners pending their plea challenging the government resolution seeking eviction of people residing near the site. The court also asked the state government’s lawyer Kavita N Solunke to file an affidavit in reply to the plea. A vacation bench of Justices Gauri V Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan was on May 30 hearing a plea by Mohammad Rajjab Khan Mohammad Khan and Shakeel Ahmed Mohammad Israil, residents of Killa (fort) area at Raviwar Ward in Malegaon, who claimed to have filed it on behalf of...
Bombay HC declares arrest of Anchor group director by EOW ‘completely illegal’, orders his release
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Bombay HC declares arrest of Anchor group director by EOW ‘completely illegal’, orders his release

The Bombay High Court on Friday held as “completely illegal” the arrest of Anchor Group director Hemant Jadavji Shah, who was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police earlier this month. It ordered that he be released from Arthur Road jail forthwith. The agency arrested him for allegedly defrauding his elder brother to the tune of Rs 9 crore while investing the proceedings of the sale of their company Anchor Electricals, which was sold to Panasonic Electricals in 2007. The HC noted that the petitioner was produced before the magistrate nearly 30 hours after his arrest, which was against legal principles and violated his fundamental rights. Story continues below this ad The court further said the EOW officers acted in “unholy haste” in registering the F...
Loan fraud case: HC suspends LOC against Manish  Mandhana, allows him to travel abroad
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Loan fraud case: HC suspends LOC against Manish Mandhana, allows him to travel abroad

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday suspended the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued by the CBI against Manish Mandhana, former director of Mandhana Industries Ltd, who is accused in a bank loan fraud case, and allowed him to travel abroad. Earlier this month, the HC had suspended the LOC issued against him at the behest of Bank of Baroda.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Bank of Baroda, the lead banker among a consortium of banks, had in its complaint with the CBI last year alleged that the accused directors of Mandhana Industries Ltd (now GB Global Ltd) Purushottam Mandhana, Manish Mandhana, Biharilal Mandhana and others defrauded the banks to the tune of Rs 975.08 crore. Story continues below this ad As per the CBI FIR, the accused persons allegedly hatched a criminal conspiracy t...
‘Irregularities’ in tribal welfare schemes: Govt removes 34 firms from blacklist
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‘Irregularities’ in tribal welfare schemes: Govt removes 34 firms from blacklist

Five years after 105 private suppliers and organisations were blacklisted over alleged irregularities in tribal welfare schemes, the Maharashtra government removed 34 of them from the blacklist.The Maharashtra government had set up a five-member committee headed by Justice (retired) M G Gaikwad in April 2014 to probe the alleged irregularities in various welfare schemes meant for tribals during the period from 2004 to 05 and 2008 to 09. The committee’s report was submitted to the state government and the Bombay High Court in January 2017. The report had recommended blacklisting of 105 organisations and private suppliers for committing irregularities in the implementation of the tribal welfare schemes. Based on that, these entities were blacklisted in January 2020.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VI...
Bombay HC orders immediate release of Yemeni national ‘detained in police station’ for overstaying in India
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Bombay HC orders immediate release of Yemeni national ‘detained in police station’ for overstaying in India

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ordered immediate release of a Yemeni national detained by the Mumbai Police for overstaying in India and questioned how he could be detained in the police station.Prima facie, the court found that there was no supporting provision in law which would enable the authorities to detain him at a police station and as per authorities, there are no detention centres made available by the government. The court also stressed on the need for Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to handle cases of overstaying under the Foreigners Act and also questioned the lack of proper detention facilities in the city for such purposes. It also raised a question on how the man was detained without a formal order and who would have been held responsible in case anything untoward ha...
HC restrains MIAL from taking final decision on Celebi ground services contract till June
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HC restrains MIAL from taking final decision on Celebi ground services contract till June

The Bombay High Court on Monday temporarily halted Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) from finalising tenders for ground and bridge handling services until Turkish firm Celebi’s plea against its contract termination is heard after the court reopens in June. This interim order, issued by a vacation bench of Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, ensures that no action is taken on the tenders until Celebi’s legal challenges, stemming from the revocation of its security clearance and contract termination, are heard post-court reopening in June. Amid the backlash in India over Turkiye’s support to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, India’s aviation security regulator BCAS earlier this month revoked the security clearance of Celebi Airport Services India on grounds related to national securit...
From loudspeaker ban & pothole-free roads to mangrove protection: As Bombay HC judge, Justice Oka’s rulings shaped civic, environmental rights
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From loudspeaker ban & pothole-free roads to mangrove protection: As Bombay HC judge, Justice Oka’s rulings shaped civic, environmental rights

Justice Abhay S Oka of the Supreme Court, set to retire on May 24, served 16 years as a Bombay HC judge (2003–2019), delivering key verdicts on civic issues, laying down directives on civic issues and citizens’ rights to better living conditions and environment.His landmark rulings on noise pollution, illegal hoardings, potholes, mangrove protection and Mahul’s air quality among others have set precedent for courts and authorities. At a farewell function in Delhi, Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai, who has been his colleague for nearly four decades as a lawyer and judge, highlighted Justice Oka’s “distinguished tenure” at Bombay HC, saying his “contribution to environmental jurisprudence and constitutional values…would leave an indelible imprint.” Noise pollution: Curbs on use of loud...
After Delhi High Court, Celebi moves Bombay High Court against India security clearance revocation, airport contract cancellations
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After Delhi High Court, Celebi moves Bombay High Court against India security clearance revocation, airport contract cancellations

Turkey-headquartered airport ground handling services major Celebi has moved the Bombay High Court against the revocation of its security clearance by the Centre and the consequent termination of its contracts with Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), the operator of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The lawsuits—three in total—have been filed by the Celebi’s subsidiary Celebi Nas Airport Services India, which operated at the Mumbai airport. “Now, regarding our Mumbai operations; our subsidiary Celebi Nas Airport Services India Private Limited (‘Celebi Nas’) in which our Company holds 59% of the capital filed three different lawsuits before the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Mumbai on 21.05.2025,” parent company Celebi Hava Servisi said in a regulatory fi...
Mumbai: Dispute over property, 41 arrests after security guard opens fire on guards of rival company
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Mumbai: Dispute over property, 41 arrests after security guard opens fire on guards of rival company

TWO SECURITY companies hired by two rival pharmaceutical companies over possession of a plot of land in Agripada got into a fight that led to one of the security guards opening fire from his gun. The other security group then called up the police control room following which an FIR was registered by the Agripada police which arrested 41 persons in connection with the case. According to Agripada police, a plot on the Bapurao Jagtap Marg near Jacob Circle in Agripada has been a subject of dispute between a real estate and pharmaceutical company. The police said a lower court had ruled in favour of the real estate company and the Bombay High Court had recently sought a status quo on the matter after the pharmaceutical company had gone in appeal. However, security agencies employed by the two ...
BMC grants permission for temporary shed at Vile Parle Jain temple site
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BMC grants permission for temporary shed at Vile Parle Jain temple site

A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) razed portions of the Digambar Jain temple at Mumbai’s Vile Parle, sparking protests from members of the Jain community, the civic body on Friday granted permission to erect a temporary shed at the temple site. The approval came two days after the Bombay High Court asked the trust, which runs Digambar Jain temple in Vile Parle, to approach the BMC authorities with an application, seeking to put a temporary shed over the structure due to ensuing monsoon. Approving the trust’s request, the K/East ward office said that the approval is valid until October 31 and that the construction can be done upon payment of a fee to the tune of Rs. 17,877. The total area of the shed spans 232 square metres. Story continues below this ad ...
After SC directive, Bombay High Court constitutes new 3-judge bench to hear pleas against Maratha reservation
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After SC directive, Bombay High Court constitutes new 3-judge bench to hear pleas against Maratha reservation

Two days after the Supreme Court directive, the Bombay High Court has constituted a new three-judge bench to hear pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the 2024 law providing Maratha reservation. “The Full Bench comprising of (1) the Hon’ble Shri Justice Ravindra V Ghuge, (2) Hon’ble Shri Justice N J Jamadar and (3) the Hon’ble Shri Justice Sandeep Marne is constituted to hear and decide the Public Interest Litigation(s) and Civil Writ Petition(s) pertaining to ‘Challenge or matters relating to the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, 2024’,” the high court notification issued on Thursday reads. Earlier, the pleas were not heard after the then Bombay High Court Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya was transferred as the Chief Justi...
Maratha quota: SC tells HC Chief Justice to form new bench to hear pleas swiftly
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Maratha quota: SC tells HC Chief Justice to form new bench to hear pleas swiftly

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court to constitute a new bench to hear pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the law providing Maratha reservation in an expeditious manner. The pleas were not heard after the then Bombay HC Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya’s transfer as the CJ of Delhi HC in January this year. Justice Upadhyaya was a part of a full or three-judge bench, which since April, last year, had been hearing the pleas against the Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) Act, 2024 that provided 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to Maratha community. The petitioners’ arguments had concluded on October 14, 2024. Story continues below this ad The 2024 law, which provided 10 per c...