The Bombay High Court on Thursday (August 14, 2025) issued the sitting list for the newly constituted Circuit Bench at Kolhapur with effect from August 18, 2025. The Bench will be inaugurated by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai on August 17 at 3:30 p.m.
According to the notification dated August 14, 2025, the Division Bench comprising Justice M.S. Karnik and Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh (Court Room No. 1) will take up, for admission, hearing, order matters and applications of all public interest litigations; civil writ petitions; first appeals; family court appeals; contempt appeals; writ petitions, applications and references relating to tax laws; under Section 13 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015; letters patent appeals; criminal writ petitions; criminal applications under Section 482 of Cr.P.C./528 of BNNS; criminal appeals; confirmation of death sentence cases with connected appeals; criminal appeals under special statutes pertaining to the Division Bench; criminal contempt petitions; criminal references; all writ petitions relating to furlough, parole, remission and commutation of sentence/premature release; and all other civil and criminal work pertaining to the Division Bench from Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Solapur, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg.
