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The Gujarat High Court reiterated that strong suspicion, coincidence and grave doubt cannot take the place of proof while dismissing the appeal of the State Government challenging the acquittal of a person accused under the POCSO Act. A division bench of Justice SH Vora and Justice Rajendran Sareen observed, “here, in this case, it is […]
The Gujarat High Court applied the principle of promissory estoppel in the context of an Art 226 petition while ruling in favour of the petitioner Harekrushna Infra Projects Pvt Ltd against the respondent State Bank of India (SBI), concerning the One Time Settlement (OTS) scheme. Single Bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav directed the State Bank […]
The Gujarat High Court orally observed that the principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ would apply to all the concerned temporary employees. “In our considered view, it is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to deny fruits of labour. An employee engaged for the same work, cannot be paid less than another, who performs the […]
The Gujarat High Court denied the writ of mandamus seeking disclosure of raw marks in the exam results of the posts of ‘Vidhyut Sahayaks’. The single bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav clarified “merely because the apprehension of the petitioners is that they had got less marks than expected is no ground on which a challenge […]
The Gujarat High Court issued a notice on a writ petition against the online sale of medicines and scheduled drugs. “The healthy well-being of citizens matters. So the concerned authorities of the Centre and State should file appropriate affidavits dealing with all the contentions submitted in the petition”, the single bench of Justice A.S Supehia […]
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday stressed that judicial transparency and accountability is important. Chief Justice Aravind Kumar issued a notice to implement auto-listing of specific fresh cases with effect from July 7, 2022. “As directed by Hon’ble the Chief Justice Mr. Justice Aravind Kumar, the following methodology is being implemented for the pilot implementation […]
Gujarat BJP is strengthening their day-to-day digital campaign to woo Gen-Z and Gen-Y voters who spend an average of 8 hours a day online. Consolidating the votes of millennials will ensure the 150+ seat target of the BJP in the upcoming 2022 assembly elections. “We had started our digital campaign focusing on 2022 assembly elections with the hashtag […]
The Gujarat High Court refused the medical termination of the 30-week pregnancy of a mentally unsounded 15-year-old mute tribal rape survivor. The single bench of Justice Niral R Mehta said that it will not be desirable to terminate the pregnancy after hearing the opinion of the medical experts. A panel of doctors formed by Banas […]
The Gujarat High Court while hearing an appeal against a judgment of conviction and sentence to undergo life imprisonment, observed that a chain of circumstantial evidence becomes cogent evidence while convicting a man under section 302 IPC for murder. The court relied on the major finding that the prosecution witness (PW) 3 who is a […]
Gujarat High Court issued a writ of mandamus directing immediate appointment of the Presiding Officer in the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT)-I at Ahmedabad by stressing the right to speedy justice enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution. The Court stressed that the State shouldn’t deny and delay the fundamental rights of citizens due to technical […]
The Gujarat High Court on Monday gives custody of the six-day-old surrogate child to the biological parents as the surrogate mother is imprisoned under severe criminal charges including child trafficking. The division bench of Justice V M Pancholi and Justice S N Bhatt considered the provisions of the surrogacy agreement between the intending parents and […]
Gujarat High Court held that when a widow dies without making a will, then under section 15 of the Hindu Succession Act, her heirs are entitled to inherit the share of the property. The court observed that it doesn’t even matter if her son or daughter is born from wedlock or in illicit relationships in […]
Gujarat High Court ruled that courts cannot impose any condition that amounts to exercising powers under a different enactment while exercising powers under section 439 CrPC. The court hence directed to delete the bail conditions imposed by the trial court on the petitioner stating that trial courts should exercise powers carefully. An application was filed […]
The Gujarat High Court on Friday refused to issue an order of status quo against the conversion of 600-year-old Pir Imam Shah Bawa Dargah in Ahmedabad to Shree Nishkalnki Narayan Tirthdhaam Prnapih, a Hindu religious place. The petitioner advocate, Mihir Joshi, on behalf of the Sunni Awami Forum said that the shrine was undergoing rapid […]
The Gujarat High Court (HC) lawyer Adv Aniq Kadri with the support of the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association (GHCAA) moved a petition challenging Section 41A CrPC issued by the state police for filing a petition for anticipatory bail for the former additional solicitor general (ASG) to the High Court Advocate IH Syed. On 15 […]
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP Government’s Agnipath scheme stating that this defence recruitment scheme of youngsters shows no respect for the army as there is no rank, no pension, and no direct recruitment for two years which creates an unstable future even after four years of training. ” Don’t take […]
According to an analysis of candidate affidavits filed by newly sworn 57 Rajya Sabha MPs by the not-for-profit Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) have identified23( 40% ) MPs with declared criminal cases against themselves. Notably, out of the 57 MPs analysed by ADR, 53 (93%) are crorepatis and the average […]
Gujarat Congress on Wednesday hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the state and the centre, claiming that Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi were being framed in fake cases by Enforcement Directorate (ED). The sole purpose of these accusations was to deviate the masses from serious social, economic, and political issues the nation […]
The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust (SAPMT) which manages the Sabarmati Ashram in response to public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi against the central and Gujarat government’s Rs. 1,200 crore redevelopment plan of the ashram. The PIL was filed by Tushar […]
Straddling a curious mix of urban and tribal areas, the Congress party’s campaign in the central Gujarat region hinges a lot on its ward-to-ward urban outreach programme for the cities and alleged anti-Adivasi policies of the BJP Government. And it is an uphill task for the Congress, which could manage to win only 24 out […]
