Category: Gujarat High Court

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

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.

Source – glaws.in The Gujarat High Court once again deferred the hearings of letters patent appeals filed against a single judge bench’s order ruling poker to be a game of chance. A division bench of the High Court comprising of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice AJ Shastri did not hear the appeals that were

Source – indianexpress.com The issue raised by 30 women candidates from reserved categories protesting against a General Resolution (GR) of 2018 of the Gujarat government that does not allow them to compete in the open category for women has already been subject to debate in courts. The Gujarat High Court has a number of litigations

Source – english.jagran.com Surat Jagran News Desk: The Gujarat High Court on Friday sentenced death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in Surat.  The accused, Anila Yadav, hails from Bihar and is in his early twenties. Yadav had committed the crime on October 14, 2018. He was convicted for rape, murder

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

Source – hindustantimes.com The final report of the Commission of Inquiry headed by retired Supreme Court judge, Justice GT Nanavati, probing the Godhra train burning incident of February 2002 that left 59 ‘kar sevaks’ dead, the subsequent communal riots that broke out in Gujarat over the following three months, and the role of the then

Source – indianexpress.com The Ahmedabad City Crime Branch on Saturday night arrested two men in their twenties from Vadodara city for the alleged gang rape and assault of a minor girl in Navlakhi ground of Vadodara on November 28. According to police, the accused — Kishan Mathasuriya (28) and Jasho Solanki (21) — allegedly accosted

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

Source – newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: Gujarat High Court on Tuesday, in response to a habeas corpus filed by the father of two women missing from the Ahmedabad ashram of self-styled godman Nithyananda, directed police to use all available mechanism to trace the duo. A division bench of Justices S R Brahmbhatt and AP Thaker directed the