Category: Gujarat High Court

Bullet train: SC agrees to hear farmers’ pleas against land acquisition.

Source – business-standard.com The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a batch of pleas filed by farmers against the Gujarat High Court verdict which had dismissed their petitions challenging the process of land acquisition for the ambitious Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project.The bullet train project was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in September 2017. The train

Nithyananda ashram case: Two ‘missing’ women file affidavit from 4th country.

Source – indianexpress.com An affidavit attested by the Indian High Commission at Kingston, Jamaica, was filed on Thursday at the Gujarat High Court (HC) by the two women who allegedly went missing from self-styled godman Nithyananda’s ashram. Their father, Janardhana Sharma, had filed a habeas corpus petition in November 2019, seeking the custody of his daughters.

Gujarat: Petitioners challenge board resolution that led to downsizing at Ahmedabad’s VS Hospital.

Source – indianexpress.com The petition at the Gujarat High Court challenging the VS Hospital downsizing was allowed a draft amendment to the petition on Friday so as to challenge the very resolution that led to the downsizing of the charitable hospital. The resolution was passed by the board of the hospital on December 17, 2018

Four minor students from Nithyananda’s Gurukul produced in Gujarat HC.

Source – newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: Four minor students of a `Gurukul’ run by godman Nithyananda were produced before the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday after their parents alleged that they had been held `hostage’ by the police. The Gurukul-cum-Ashram (a residential school) is situated at Hirapur village on the outskirts of the city. As the habeas