Gujarat High Court
'Public Interest Will Always Have Precedence Over Private Interest': Gujarat High Court Rejects Plea Against Redevelopment Of Residential Units
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the redevelopment of residential units of Surya Apartments, Sola Road, in Ahmedabad under a scheme floated by the Gujarat Housing Board (GHB). A total of 14 residents of the premises had moved the high court against the redevelopment contending that the principles of natural justice, which is a prerequisite for any redevelopment...
Gujarat High Court Stays Single Judge Order Directing Collectors To Decide Pending Applications For Land Conversion Before April 13
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday stayed an order passed by the single bench directing all the district collectors in Gujarat to process Non-Agricultural (NA) Permission applications filed under Section 65 of Bombay Land Revenue Code by April 13.The petitioner before the single judge bench, had earlier filed an application before District Collector, Kheda under Section 65 of Bombay Land...
Ahead of Eid And Parshuram Jayanti, PIL Before Gujarat High Court Seeks Strict Security Arrangements During Religious Processions
Ahead of the upcoming festivals of Eid and Parshuram Jayanti on April 22, a public interest litigation has been filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking strict security arrangements during religious processions to prevent any incident of violence in the State.The PIL has been moved by Azajkhan Hamidkhan Pathan, a 36-year-old social worker, alleging inaction on the part of the Gujrat Government...
No Unrestricted Freedom To Sell Meat/Run Slaughter Houses On Religious Occasions Sans Complying With Food Safety Laws: Gujarat HC
The Gujarat High Court today held that there is no unrestricted freedom available to meat vendors, sellers, and slaughterhouse owners to do business in meat or to run slaughterhouses on the ground of religious occasions when they are otherwise non-compliant with the food safety laws. The bench of Justice NV Anjaria also noted that the activity of running unlicensed slaughterhouses and...
Right To Safe Food A Fundamental Right U/Article 21; Right To Sell Meat Subservient To Public Health: Gujarat High Court
Holding that right to safe food is a Fundamental Right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, the Gujarat High Court today observed that the right to free trade in food items like meat, or any such food has to be subserving to the public health and food safety requirements. The bench of Justice N. V Anjaria opined thus while disposing of a bunch of PIL Pleas filed by meat vendors...
Gujarat High Court Opens 'Sealed Cover' Results Of Two Public Service Aspirants After 25 Yrs, Finds Them Successful
About 25 years after two public service aspirants challenged the eligibility criteria for recruitment as Agricultural Officers through State Public Service Commission, the Gujarat High Court opened their sealed cover results on Thursday and found them successful.The merit was declared in December 1998 but results of the four petitioners were withheld.They had challenged the Deputy Director...
Gujarat High Court Acting Chief Justice Inaugurates Legal Aid Defense Counsel System Offices In 11 Districts
Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court Justice A. J. Desai on Monday virtually inaugurated the offices of the Legal Aid Defense Counsel System in 11 districts of the state.With this Gujarat became the third state in the country, after Kerala and Jharkhand, in which the Legal Aid Defense Counsel System has become functional in all 32 District Headquarters. The 11 districts where the...
Gujarat High Court Seeks Congress MLA Kiritkumar Patel's Response On Plea Challenging His Election From Patan Assembly Constituency
The Gujarat High Court has issued notice to Congress MLA Kiritkumar Chimanlal Patel from Patan Assembly in an Election Petition alleging that he had not furnished information with regard to the FIRs registered against him in the affidavits filed before the Returning Officer during the 2022 Assembly Elections. The petitioner, an elector from the Patan Assembly, alleged in the...
'Writ Of Quo Warranto Not An Appeal Over Academic Decision': Gujarat High Court Sets Aside Verdict Against GTU Associate Professor's Appointment
The Gujarat High Court has set aside a single judge bench's decision asking a person to vacate the post of Associate Professor (Management) in Gujarat Technological University (GTU) due to his alleged ineligibility for the said post. The division bench of Justice N. V. Anjaria and Justice Bhargav D. Karia observed: “In any view, writ of quo warranto is not an appeal over an...
Gujarat High Court Transfers Trial In Criminal Intimidation Case To Morbi After Lawyers In Bhuj Refuse To Defend Accused
The Gujarat High Court recently allowed a petition filed by an accused for transfer of his case from Kachchh district to Morbi on the ground that no advocate from the District Bar Association, Bhuj was willing to defend the accused as the lawyers' body had passed a resolution not to defend him.The single judge bench of Justice Ilesh J. Vora observed:“In the facts of the present case,...
Whether Any Action Taken? Gujarat High Court Calls For Complete Records Related To Patdi Encounter
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday directed the State to produce before it all records and documents including post mortem report, ballistics report etc., in a PIL related to killing of a person and his 14 year old son in a police encounter in Patdi taluka of Surendranagar district in the year 2021.The PIL filed by the daughter and sister of the deceased persons respectively, states that...
Scope Of Judicial Review In Service Matters Limited, Affected Party Must Avail Civil Remedy: Gujarat High Court Reiterates
The Gujarat High Court dismissed a Special Civil Application filed by a principal against his termination by Anandalaya Education Society citing a clear element of loss of confidence in the petitioner by the respondent-institution. Justice Sandeep N Bhatt made it clear that the writ is not maintainable under Article 226 of the Constitution of India against the present respondent...