Gandhinagar | 4 days ago
Pathans' family told to comply with court orders
Gandhinagar, Aug 26 - The Gujarat High Court Thursday directed the family of cricketers Irfan Pathan and Yusuf Pathan to hand over possession of a disputed property to their tenant.The court said it will hear Pathans' plea only after they comply with a trial court's order to restore the possession of the property to the tenant, allegedly evicted forcibly May 7. The present petition was filed by th ... read more

Gandhinagar | 19 days ago
Termination of 12 Gujarat judges set aside
Gandhinagar, Aug 11 - The Gujarat High Court Wednesday set aside the termination of 12 ad-hoc fast track court judges and asked the authorities to consider their reinstatement. A plea filed by 25 other judges for reinstatement was rejected.A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Anant Dave said the 12 judges have been assessed to be 'good' or 'very good' in their knowledge ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 months ago
Court rejects ex-BJP legislator's plea in Gujarat riot case
Gandhinagar, June 17 - The Gujarat High Court Thursday rejected the plea of former Bharatiya Janata Party - legislator Prahlad Ghosha and another man challenging a lower court's order to consider them as accused in the Dipda Darwaza case in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.Yusuf Khan Murad Khan and his 11 family members were attacked and killed by a mob at Dipda Darwaza area of Visnagar in Mehsana distr ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 months ago
Trial court told to decide on POTA confessions
Gandhinagar, June 17 - The Gujarat High Court Thursday left it to the trial court to decide whether the confessional statements of an accused recorded under the defunct Prevention Of Terrorism Act - is admissible as evidence or not.Justice Anant Dave, while hearing a petition of an accused in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case, said that the trial judge, while passing the order, should decide whet ... read more

Gandhinagar | 2 months ago
Court refuses to meddle in 'politically influenced transfer'
Gandhinagar, June 9 - The Gujarat High Court Wednesday refused to stay the cancellation of a 'politically influenced transfer' of a state government employee.The petitioner, Bhavna Kubavat, approached the high court against cancellation of her transfer from Kotda Sangani to Atkot in Rajkot district. It was submitted that the authorities had transferred her to Atkot on a recommendation of the Raj ... read more

Gandhinagar | 3 months ago
Court permits minor rape victim to undergo abortion
Gandhinagar, May 10 - The Gujarat High Court Monday allowed a minor rape victim's pregnancy to be terminated in Surendranagar district.Setting aside a sessions judge's order denying permission to the 13-year-old to abort, Justice Anant Dave said that abortion of a rape victim was not barred under law and was upheld by the Supreme Court. Justice Dave also stated that carrying the pregnancy to term ... read more

Gandhinagar | 4 months ago
Police's response sought on raped minor's abortion plea
Gandhinagar, April 20 - The Gujarat High Court Tuesday sought the response of police on the plea of a minor girl for the court's intervention for an abortion after she was raped and became pregnant.Hearing the petition of the 13-year old who said she had been raped repeatedly over a year by a neighbour, Ghanshyamsinh Rajput, and was pregnant, Justice Anant Dave issued notice to the investigating ... read more

Gandhinagar | 5 months ago
Court reserves judgment on POTA evidence
Gandhinagar, March 23 - The Gujarat High Court Tuesday reserved decision on whether to preserve confessional statements of the accused in POTA cases and consider them as evidence.Counsel for petitioners, A.D. Shah argued that as per the Evidence Act, the court has to decide whether the evidence produced before it was relevant and admissible or not. It was also argued that according to this Act, c ... read more

Ahmedabad | 5 months ago
Pharma majors locked in legal battle over trademark
Ahmedabad, March 21 - A legal battle is afoot among the pharma majors and local companies of Gujarat over ownership of a trademark.The issue came to the fore when multinationals Pfizer and Ranbaxy knocked the doors of the Gujarat High Court after two local pharma companies, Parth and Pearl, filed a complaint alleging illegal use of their trademark, Capsola. The police moved against the local comp ... read more

Gandhinagar | 5 months ago
High court to hear pleas of Godhra accused Tuesday
Gandhinagar, March 15- The Gujarat High Court will Tuesday hear the plea of 79 accused in the Godhra train burning case, challenging a designated court's decision to consider the confession of the accused as evidence.Earlier this month, a special court at the Sabarmati prison had turned down the accused' plea and started to consider the confession statements as evidence against them. Designated ... read more