Shibu Thomas

Special Correspondent, TOI

Shibu Thomas is a special correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai. He writes on legal issues in the Bombay high Court and other courts in the city. He has written on PILs filed by citizens, hum ...

Shibu Thomas is a special correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai. He writes on legal issues in the Bombay high Court and other courts in the city. He has written on PILs filed by citizens, human rights violations and prisoners caught in the legal system. He has travelled across two continents and plans to cover the remaining five.

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Stories by the author

• Facebook, Google to bring rules on poll ads to stop ‘foreign intervention’

  
  19 Feb 2019 10:32 AM IST
• Russi Mody’s kin, friend fight over his assets

  
  06 Oct 2018 10:52 AM IST
• Asking wife to cook properly not ill-treatment: Bombay high court

  
  06 Aug 2018 09:58 AM IST
• If ill-treated, elderly parents can take back property gifted to son, rules Bombay HC

  
  16 Jul 2018 11:04 AM IST
• ‘Aadhaar no proof you are legally occupying house’

  
  19 Mar 2018 12:48 PM IST
• Businessman in debt moves to Bombay High Court to save home, cites scams

  
  27 Feb 2018 10:56 AM IST
• One-night stand not marriage under Hindu law: Bombay High Court

  
  11 Jun 2017 12:39 PM IST
• Investors in an illegal building project can be prosecuted: HC

  
  13 Apr 2017 06:53 AM IST
• Looking for reform, SC spares man who killed pregnant wife and son

  
  09 Apr 2017 10:52 AM IST
• 24 years on, Harshad Mehta’s brother, 5 others convicted of Rs 700 crore fraud

  
  29 Nov 2016 10:57 AM IST
• Mumbai's new construction ban: SC allows builders' body to file review plea in HC

  
  24 Aug 2016 12:03 PM IST
• Jiah Khan wasn’t murdered, CBI tells high court

  
  02 Aug 2016 03:50 PM IST
• Malegaon blasts case: Shrikant Purohit wanted to set up a govt-in-exile, NIA says

  
  15 May 2016 12:35 PM IST
• Malegaon blasts: NIA says Maharashtra ATS planted RDX to frame Lt Col Purohit

  
  14 May 2016 10:55 AM IST
• Blow to India's tallest skyscraper as 13 upper floors deemed illegal

  
  28 Jan 2016 10:57 AM IST
• Bombay HC stays government ban on surrogacy for foreign couples

  
  07 Nov 2015 10:41 AM IST
• Mumbai HC declares horse-drawn Victoria joyrides illegal, carriages given one year to phase out

  
  09 Jun 2015 10:59 AM IST
• Maharashtra to HC: Beef ban does not violate Constitutional rights

  
  21 Apr 2015 10:46 AM IST
• Bombay High Court hikes payout for govt-acquired land

  
  20 Jan 2015 11:16 AM IST
• Should death penalty go? Law panel begins review

  
  25 Aug 2014 03:18 PM IST
• PIL drags PM Narendra Modi and BJP to court over 'acche din' promises

  
  26 Jun 2014 11:28 AM IST
• Car damaged while towing? You can claim compensation

  
  26 Feb 2014 03:07 PM IST
• Passport alone no proof of citizenship: Bombay High Court

  
  03 Sep 2013 11:27 AM IST
• Sanjay Dutt's fate in 1993 Mumbai blasts case to be sealed today

  
  21 Mar 2013 10:18 AM IST
• Ra.One gets a breather from HC, but at considerable cost; Shah Rukh Khan & his company agreed to deposit Rs 1 crore to ensure the movie's release

  
  22 Oct 2011 09:01 AM IST
• TV writer seeks stay on Ra.One

  
  21 Oct 2011 01:14 PM IST
• House Rent Allowance not a right, merely a compensation: HC

  
  28 Sep 2011 09:44 AM IST
• Denying wife access to marital home is domestic violence: Bombay High Court

  
  10 Aug 2011 09:23 AM IST
• High court order leaves slumdwellers' plea on larger flats dismissed

  
  28 Jul 2011 08:26 AM IST
• Music companies, not composers, own song rights: Bombay HC

  
  27 Jul 2011 01:33 PM IST
• Govt altered status of Adarsh land: Mumbai collector

  
  06 Jul 2011 05:06 AM IST
• Vilasrao marked Adarsh file as ‘tatkal’ : Collector

  
  05 Jul 2011 05:09 AM IST
• Adarsh scam: Maps, survey sheets too missing

  
  25 Jun 2011 10:56 AM IST
• Adarsh housing scam: Files go missing from defence HQ in Mumbai

  
  15 Jun 2011 07:21 AM IST
• Keeping a mistress inflicts mental cruelty on wife: Bombay HC

  
  25 May 2011 03:12 AM IST
• HC asks govt details of spend on sports other than cricket

  
  23 Mar 2011 04:22 PM IST
• Mumbai terror attack: Malabar Hill was final target

  
  22 Feb 2011 03:15 AM IST
• Pune land scam may be bigger than Adarsh, 2G: HC

  
  08 Feb 2011 03:55 PM IST
• Kasab death sentence: HC to announce verdict on Feb 7

  
  18 Jan 2011 05:43 AM IST
• Terrorists can't get out of Maharashtra jails

  
  06 Jan 2011 04:44 AM IST
• Now, terrorists can't get out of Maharashtra jails soon

  
  06 Jan 2011 04:44 AM IST