Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 31 - August 06

Nominal Index [Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Guj) 126-128]Rajpara Saumil Kanubhai Vs. State Of Gujarat 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 126Raman Pillai Bhaskaran Nair Sreekumar (R. B. Sreekumar) vs. State of Gujarat 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 127Tagros Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd. Versus Union Of India 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 128Judgements/Orders This Week'Can't Live Stream Everything, It Is About The Infrastructure': Gujarat...

Gujarat High Court Orders Refund Of IGST With Interest In An Inadvertent Tax Payment Case

The Gujarat High Court has directed the refund of the Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) amount, along with applicable interest, to a petitioner who inadvertently paid IGST at a higher rate than the concessional rate applicable.The petitioner, Tagros Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd., had been registered under GST since its introduction, and the case pertained to a purchase order received...

Gujarat High Court Monthly Digest: July 2023

Nominal Index [Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Guj) 110-125]Teesta Atul Setalvad Vs. State Of Gujarat 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 110TBEA Energy v. R K Engineering 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 111Anilaben Rohitbhai Modi Versus Income Tax Officer, Ward 5(3)(1), Ahmedabad 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 112Ajay Raydhanbhai Kumbharwadiya (Boricha) vs. State Of Gujarat & 6 Other(S) 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 113Rahul Gandhi Versus...

Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 24 To July 30

NOMINAL INDEXDeepakkumar Hasmukhbhai Mahida Versus State Of Gujarat 2023 LiveLaw (Guj) 125Judgements/OrdersGujarat High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Implementation Of District Education Officer’s Order To School For Refund Of Additional FeesCase Title: Deepakkumar Hasmukhbhai Mahida Versus State Of GujaratCase Citation: 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 125The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a plea...

Gauhati High Court Sets Aside Lower Court Order Directing Police To Register FIR Against CM Himanta Biswa For 'Inflammatory Speech'

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday set aside a Magistrate Court's order directing Assam Police to register a case under Sections 153 and 153A of IPC against the incumbent Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, on the basis of a complaint made by Congress MP Abdul Khaleque, alleging that the Sarma has made communally motivated statements in December, 2021 at Marigaon.The Single bench of Justice...

Gujarat Riots 'Conspiracy' Case | High Court Grants Bail To Ex-DGP RB Sreekumar Who Was Arrested Along With Teesta Setalvad

The Gujarat High Court on Friday granted bail to former Gujarat Director General of Police Raman Pillai Bhaskaran Nair Sreekumar (RB Sreekumar), who was arrested last year by state police on the allegations of fabricating documents so as to implicate high government functionaries including the then CM Narendra Modi in relation to the 2002 Gujarat riots.Sreekumar was first granted interim bail...

Gujarat Riots 2002: High Court Judge Recuses From Hearing Teesta Setalvad's Quashing Plea

Justice Samir J. Dave of the Gujarat High Court today recused from hearing the plea filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad to quash the case lodge against her by Gujarat Police accusing her of fabricating documents so as to implicate high government functionaries including the then CM Narendra Modi in relation to the 2002 Gujarat riots.Setalvad moved the High Court soon after a city...

'Can't Live Stream Everything, It Is About The Infrastructure': Gujarat HC Dismisses PIL For Live-Streaming Of GIC Proceedings

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking the live-streaming of proceedings at the Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) observing that "everything can't be live streamed, it can't be mandated by the court as it about the infrastructure""Every tribunal and every forum cannot be expected to live-stream the proceedings. They will do it in...

Gujarat High Court Half Yearly Digest: January To June 2023 [Citations 1 - 109]

Citations 2023 LiveLaw (Guj) 1 to 2023 LiveLaw (Guj) 109NOMINAL INDEXPerfect Importers and Distributors (India) Pvt. Ltd. vs Union of India 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 1Shripal Raja Rajendrakumar Shah v. State of Gujarat & Ors 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 2Kirtilal Ravchandbhai Sanghavi & Ors. v. Reserve Bank of India & Anr. 2023 Livelaw (Guj) 3Fakirmamad Hushenbhai Sumbhaniya v. State of Gujara...

Once FIR Is Quashed, It Is Duty Of Press To Delete Case-Related News Articles: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday observed that once an FIR is quashed, news articles related to it should be deleted by the press as continuous circulation could potentially harm the goodwill of the person against whom the FIR was filed. However, the court did not pass any direction for deletion of the news articles at this stage.The observations were made by a bench of Chief Justice...

Gujarat High Court To Continue Hybrid Hearings For Specific Benches

Gujarat High Court has said that hybrid mode of hearing would continue for the following benches for the cause lists of every Thursday: i. Benches presided over by Justice Sunita Agarwal, Chief Justice ii. Benches presided over by Justice B. A. Vaishnav The circular further said that all other modalities and facilities would be as per the Standard Operating Procedure given in the earlier...

Gujarat High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Implementation Of District Education Officer’s Order To School For Refund Of Additional Fees

The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a plea seeking directions for implementation of a District Education Officer's order for refund of the fees additionally charged from the students by a schoolJustice Nikhil S. Kariel said though the order may have been passed upon a complaint filed by the petitioner but he is is not a person who could be stated to be aggrieved on account of non compliance...