Category: Gujarat High Court

Source – thehindu.com The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the State police to trace two women who went missing from the Nithyananda Ashram in Ahmedabad. The court was acting on a habeas corpus petition filed by the women’s father Janardhan Sharma. A Division Bench of Justices S.R. Brahmbhatt and A.P. Thaker directed the police to consult

Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has dismissed review petitions challenging the conviction of 12 people in the 2003 murder of former Gujarat home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Haren Pandya. A bench of justices Arun Mishra and Vineet Saran upheld their judgment of July 5, 2019 convicting the 12 persons. The order,

Source – financialexpress.com The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the finance ministry, Central Board of Excise and Customs and others on Adani Power’s (Mundra) appeal seeking an exemption from customs duty levied on electricity generated and supplied from its 5,200 MW Mundra Special Economic Zone power plant to Domestic Tariff Area (DTA). A Bench

Source – thehindubusinessline.com Gujarat High Court has directed that strict action should be taken against Goods & Services (GST) officers who stay at assessee’s premises during a search without authority of law. The Court was hearing a petition in which complainant had said that officials had stayed at his premise while conducting searches. According to

Source – thehindubusinessline.com The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Centre and the State Government, besides three others, on limiting the input tax credit to assessees in case the details have not been uploaded by the supplier. The Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) tweaked the ITC norms by bringing in a

Source – thewire.in Ahmedabad: External affairs minister S. Jaishankar filed an affidavit in the Gujarat high court on Monday defending his election to the Rajya Sabha from the state, claiming that the Election Commission broke no rules by holding separate elections for two seats. Congress leader Gaurav Pandya, who had lost to BJP candidate Jaishankar in

Source – FOUR YEARS after they fled their homes following conflict with another group, more than 400 members of the herdsmen community returned to their villages in Thangadh taluka of Surendranagar district amid heavy police presence Monday. The Gujarat High Court on October 25 directed the Surendrangar district administration to facilitate the process after one

Source – taxscan.in The Ahmedabad bench of the Gujarat High Court in the case of Director of Income Tax v Gujarat Cricket Association ruling in favour of the assessee held the assessee society to be engaged in charitable activity and not in an activity of commercial nature. Further that once a certificate for registration has

Source – The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the widow of a man, who had been killed by terrorists aboard a trawler while hijacking the vessel allegedly for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The court of Justice Bhargav Karia reasoned that in view

Source: indianexpress.com The Gujarat High Court on Monday stayed the order of the Special Secretary of Revenue Department (SSRD) in the case of a property transaction under the Disturbed Areas Act involving the Goradia and Fazlani families on the Vasna Tandalja road in Vadodara. In the order, the SSRD had directed the District Collector of