Gujarat High Court
Pakistani National Moves Gujarat High Court Seeking Direction To Centre To Decide His Citizenship Request
A 50-year-old Pakistani national has approached the Gujarat High Court seeking direction to Central government and other authorities to consider and decide his application under the Citizenship Act 1955 seeking Indian Citizenship, pending since March last year despite fulfilling all legal formalities.The plea claims that due to pendency of his application, the petitioner, who is a qualified...
IELTS 'Scam': Gujarat High Court Directs Magistrate Court To Decide Police's Closure Report Afresh
The Gujarat High Court has ordered a Magistrate Court in Mehsana to decide afresh the closure report filed by Police in a case pertaining to alleged fabrication of ILETS results.Justice L S Pirzada upheld the sessions court's order on not accepting police's summary report but set aside its direction on appointment of another officer to investigate the case further.The High Court rather...
Gujarat High Court Half-Yearly Digest : January To June 2025
Citations 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 1 to 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 89NOMINAL INDEXAhmedabad Municipal Corporation v/s Sadgunbhai Semulbhai Solanki 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 1Sumit Kapurbhai Prajapati vs Union of India 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 2Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited vs Gupta Power Infrastructure Limited 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 3Thakor Vipulji Gamaji & Ors. vs State of Gujarat 2025 LiveLaw (Guj) 4Mahesh Langa...
Gujarat High Court Upholds Validity Of GST Advisory On Interest For Delayed Tax Payment
The Gujarat High Court has upheld the validity of the GST advisory on interest for delayed tax payment. Justices Bhargav D. Karia and Pranav Trivedi stated that the reference to Section 79 of the GST Act in the advisory is only to put the assessee on guard as to such outstanding liability as per the record of the Authority so that the assessee can either make the payment of...
Gujarat High Court Quashes Criminal Complaint Against Company For Alleged Default Of CSR Obligations
The Gujarat High Court recently quashed a criminal complaint registered against a company claiming default of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) obligations, after noting that the offence alleged–including the penalty–had been decriminalized by Companies (Amendment) Act 2020. Justice JC Doshi in his order referred to Supreme Court's decision in T. Barai v. Henry Ah Hoe and Anr....
Gujarat High Court Imposes ₹1.4 Crore 'Exemplary Cost' On Litigants For Filing PIL Without Disclosing Proper Credentials
The Gujarat High Court on Friday (July 11) imposed exemplary costs of Rs 20 Lakh each on seven individuals who filed a PIL challenging development permission granted to a builder, for not disclosing their credentials properly— calling it "doubtful".During the hearing when the petitioners' counsel sought time to file additional affidavit on petitioners' qualification, a division bench of...
Can Lack Of Intention Wipe Out Conduct?: Gujarat High Court To Senior Advocate Seen With Beer Mug On VC
While hearing a suo motu contempt plea against senior advocate Bhaskar Tanna for appearing on VC while drinking from a beer mug, the Gujarat High Court on Monday (July 14) orally said that while it knows that the senior advocate did not have any intention behind such conduct but wondered whether lack of intention can erase the contemptous conduct.For context, the incident in question took...
Gujarat High Court Directs Man Captured On Toilet Seat During VC To Deposit ₹1 Lakh By July 22
The Gujarat High Court on Monday (July 14) directed a man, who was captured seated on a toilet seat during online proceedings last month, to deposit Rs 1 Lakh with the court's registry by July 22. A division bench of Justice A.S. Supehia and Justice R.T. Vachhani while dictating its order said:"Pursuant to the order dated June 30 the registry has placed the report on record. The report...
"Wholly Misconceived": Gujarat High Court Rejects Challenge To Vires Of Land Grabbing Act, Warns Of Exemplary Cost
Dismissing a plea seeking a declaration that provisions of the Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act 2020 be declared ultra-vires, the High Court on Monday (July 14) noted that the plea filed was a "wholly misconceived petition", noting that the validity of the statute had already been adjudicated by the court in its judgment last year. The court said this after noting that the...
Asking Daughter-In-Law To Arrange Money For Bail Of Husband, Father-In-Law Not Dowry: Gujarat High Court
Upholding the acquittal of a woman's in-laws accused of dowry death, the Gujarat High Court said that demanding money from her to meet legal expenses for applying for their bail in another case would not amount to dowry and can't be regarded as harassment related to "Illegal demand for dowry" leading to the woman's suicide. The State's appeal challenged a 2013 judgment by the sessions...
'Error Was Not Corrected': Gujarat High Court Grants Relief To Man Whose Name Appeared Both As Complainant & Accused In FIR
The Gujarat High Court quashed an FIR for voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation lodged against a man whose name was mistakenly shown as an accused in one place and as a complainant in another place in the same FIR.Noting that no steps were taken to correct the error, but an investigation was carried out and a charge-sheet was filed, the court said that continuing the FIR would...
Gujarat High Court Asks Police To Look Into Man's Cheating Claim Against Fertility Centre Alleging Child Born Via IVF Is Not His
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (July 9) directed the police to look into a man's grievance alleging cheating and forgery by a fertility hospital wherein he claimed that a DNA test revealed that he is not the biological father of the child born to him and his wife through IVF procedure. The plea has alleged "cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery" levelled against the...