Tag: Gujarat High Court

Source: indianexpress.com Acting on an application moved last week by Shweta Bhatt, wife of former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, seeking an early listing of her main petition seeking armed security for her family from the state at its expense, the Gujarat High Court ordered that the main petition be listed on August 19. On July

Source: newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court Wednesday said local authorities can prohibit owners of malls and multiplexes from collecting parking fee, under the provisions of the Comprehensive General Development Control Regulation 2017 (GDCR). A bench of Chief Justice Anant S Dave and Justice Biren Vaishnav said this in its order on an appeal filed by

Source: indiatoday.in The Supreme Court is scheduled on Friday to pronounce verdict on the appeals filed by CBI and the Gujarat government challenging the acquittal of 12 persons facing charges of murdering former state Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra will also pronounce judgement on a PIL filed

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the state home and education department, and Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU), after a public interest litigation questioning the ‘Centre of Excellence’ tag granted to the varsity by the state government came up for hearing. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice AS

Source: dnaindia.com As the waste dumping yard at Pirana continues to be a major source of air pollution in the city, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the state government to deposit Rs 75 crore in an escrow account to clear the site. The NGT pulled up State and civic authorities, saying concrete steps need

Source: indianexpress.com The two accused persons, who were on the motorcycle at the time of the shooting – one Rinku Rampal and another Ali – are absconding and the additional public prosecutor argued that it will be dificult to secure Ansari, if released on bail. Pending final disposal of a criminal appeal at the Gujarat

Source: dnaindia.com Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani has moved the Gujarat High Court for quashing of an FIR registered against him for sharing a video on Twitter of a student being mercilessly beaten up by a teacher and ‘wrongly’ claiming that the video belongs to RM and VM Desai Sarvajanik Vidyalaya in Valsad. The video was

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Monday refused to uphold the death sentence awarded to a 38-year-old man for kidnapping, raping, and murdering a six-year-old girl. However, it ensured that the man would have to repent for committing the heinous crime for the rest of his life as it converted his death sentence to

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday expressed its unhappiness on the state government for its failure to take steps to abolish the inhumane practice of manual scavenging. The government was supposed to file a detailed reply on Wednesday clarifying whether manual scavenging is still prevalent in the state, or not, and what actions

Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court’s single judge bench of Justice SH Vora has stayed a special court, which is hearing the 2008 serial blasts case, from initiating contempt proceedings against Madhya Pradesh government officials for not shifting 10 serial blasts accused from a jail in MP to Sabarmati central jail in Ahmedabad. The court