Flashback 2014: Cases Against Film Stars, Pils Dominated Legal Scene In Maharashtra

The court also directed the state's Chief Secretary to form a committee comprising senior home, law and judiciary department officials, representatives of jail administration and other competent officers to suggest amendments to the rules and procedure related to screening of parole and furlough applications.

The PIL argued that while Dutt's application for parole and then its extension were decided within a week, similar applications of other convicts were kept pending for months together. In August, the high court granted conditional bail to FTIL founder Jignesh Shah in the Rs 5000 crore NSEL scam over three months after he was arrested in the case.

The trial court had earlier rejected his bail plea on the ground the investigation was still on and he could tamper with evidence or hamper the probe if released. Shah came under the scanner of EOW and other agencies in 2013 when NSEL, part of the Financial Technologies (India) Limited group founded by him, faced a payment crisis as nearly 18,000 of its investors allegedly lost millions of rupees.

 In October, the high court ruled that Vodafone is not liable to pay an income tax demand of Rs 3,200 crore in a case relating to transfer pricing. The verdict came as a big relief for the UK-based mobile service provider which is already locked in a big tax dispute with the government.