Junagadh Municipal Commissioner's Response Silent On Manner Of Plastic Waste Disposal By Hired Agencies: Gujarat HC Takes "Strong Exception"

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday took "strong exception" to Commissioner of Junagadh Municipal Corporation's affidavit, noting it was silent on the court's specific query on the manner in which plastic waste collected from the city and the Girnar Eco-Sensitive Zone, is recycled by the agencies hired by the corporation for this purpose. The high court further in its order said that the...

[Espionage Case] Gujarat HC Denies Bail To Ex-Pakistani Citizen Accused Of Transmitting WhatsApp Based Malware To Airforce Personnel

The Gujarat High Court has recently rejected the regular bail plea of a man, a former Pakistani citizen who later obtained Indian citizenship, in connection with an alleged espionage case. A single judge bench of Justice MR Mengdey in its order said, that from the record of the case it appeared that on April 3, 2023, a witness in the matter, "who was working in the Airforce", stationed at...

Gujarat HC Directs Re-Evaluation Of Results For Court Assistant Exam After Minor Error In OMR Sheets, Orders Rectification Efforts

The Gujarat High Court has mandated a reevaluation of the examination results for two candidates who participated in the Assistant exam for the Subordinate Courts of Gujarat. This decision follows the candidates' appeal concerning their performance in the elimination test held in July 2023, after they made a minor but significant error on their OMR answer sheets. Justice Vaibhavi D. Nanavati...

"Eyewash": Gujarat HC Dissatisfied With Public Apology Of 3 Newspapers For Wrongly Reporting Court Proceedings, Grants Time To Publish Afresh

The Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected affidavits filed by three newspapers, tendering and containing the public apology issued by them for wrongly reporting the court proceedings in connection with the ongoing hearing of a batch of pleas moved by various linguistic and religious minority schools challenging amendments to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Act.Court said...

Gujarat High Court Orders Establishment Of Statewide Grievance Redressal Mechanism For Addressing Civic Issues

The Gujarat High Court has recently expressed its concern over State's continued inefficiency in addressing the civic issues raised in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition concerning the conditions of Ahmedabad's roads, parking, traffic, and the stray cattle menace across cities and towns in the state. The court was hearing a contempt plea related to non-compliance with its earlier...

Wife Having Extramarital Affair May Not Be Guilty Of Abetting Husband's Suicide: Gujarat High Court Quashes FIR Against Woman, Partner

The Gujarat High Court has quashed the FIR lodged by a woman's mother-in-law, accusing her and her partner of abetting the suicide of her husband. The Court observed that even if the contents of the FIR were accepted as true, it could not be established that there was any intention on the part of the accused to abet the commission of suicide by the deceased, who was the husband of the...

Gujarat High Court Rejects Asaram Bapu's Plea For Suspension Of Life Sentence In Rape Case, Says Challenge To Conviction Will Be Heard In Appeal

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected Asaram Bapu's application for suspension of sentence, who was convicted by a sessions court last year in a 2013 rape case and sentenced to life imprisonment. After perusing through the sessions court judgment and "cursorily scanning" the evidence adduced before the trial court a division bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and Justice Vimal K Vyas in...

High Court Seeks Registrar's Response On Alleged Non-Implementation Of Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act

While hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Chamunda Cotton Sales Co-Operative Society Ltd, the Gujarat High Court has directed the Registrar of Co-operative Societies to file an affidavit addressing the issue of alleged non-implementation of the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961.The PIL raised three key issues concerning the implementation of the Act.The first...

Illegal, Unsafe Hoardings Removed By Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation: High Court Disposes PIL, Refuses To Look Into Tender Process

Total 84 hoardings deemed illegal and unsafe have been removed from Ahmedabad city, the Gujarat High Court was informed last week.Of over 2,000 billboards and hoardings erected in the city, the Municipal Corporation found 74 hoardings to have been erected without any permission and remaining 12 were found to be unsafe.The division bench comprising Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice...

Gujarat High Court Rejects Asaram's Son's Plea For Personal Laptop Inside Jail, But Calls Upon Prison Authorities To Embrace Technology

"Crime is outcome of the deceased mind and jail must have an environment of hospital for treatment and care", Mahatma Gandhi said. Quoting the father of the nation, the Gujarat High Court recently asked jail authorities to embrace the benefits of technology including providing e-services to inmates, while underscoring that all prisoners cannot be painted with the same brush. The high court...

Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up: August 19 - August 25, 2024

Nominal Index [Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Guj) 112-117]Mehul Sureshkumar Champaneria Versus Veer Narmad South Gujarat University Through Secretary 2024 LiveLaw (Guj) 112Ms Mousumi Mukherjee D.O Shri Manab Kumar Mukherjee Versus Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited(Bharuch Division) & Anr. 2024 LiveLaw (Guj) 113United India Insurance Co. Ltd. Versus Kevalji Lumbaji Harijan(Dabhi) & Ors....

Gujarat High Court Dismisses Revenue's Appeal, Upholds ITAT Order Allowing Additional Depreciation U/S 32(1)(iia) For Oil Well Classified As 'Plant & Machinery'

The Gujarat High Court has ruled against the revenue's appeal regarding a decision by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), which had permitted the assessee to claim additional depreciation on an oil well classified as 'plant & machinery' under Section 32(1)(iia) of the Income Tax Act, 1961.The core issue raised in the appeal was: “Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case,...