Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up : March 02 - March 08, 2026

Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 70 - 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 78Nominal IndexBabubhai Ishwarbhai Patel v. State of Gujarat & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 70State of Gujarat v. Shabbirhusein Shekhadam Khandvawala & Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 71Suleiman Ahmed Minty v. State of Gujarat & Ors 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 72Advance Greenfield Pvt Ltd Through Its Director Surendrakumar Netaram Sharma v. State of Gujarat & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 73Dharmendra Vallabhbhai Ramani v. Jetpur Swaminarayan Trust & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 74District Primary Education Officer & Anr. v. Sabihaben Ayubhbai Vora 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 75Pirzada Saiyed Bahauddin B. Kadri (since deceased through heirs) and others v. State of Gujarat 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 76Mukeshbhai Gorchandbhai Chamka v State of Gujarat 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 77Koli Parshottambhai Narsinhbhai & Anr. v. State of Gujarat Through Secretary (Appeals) & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 78Judgments/ Orders This WeekS.135(C) Gujarat Land Revenue Code | Revenue Authorities Must Mutate Entry When Based On Registered Sale Deed: High CourtCase Title: Babubhai Ishwarbhai Patel v. State of Gujarat & Ors.Case Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 70The Gujarat High Court has held that when rights in land are acquired through a registered document under the Gujarat Land Revenue Code, the revenue authorities are duty-bound to mutate the entry.In doing so the court said that the refusal to restore such entry despite subsequent consent of parties and rectification of defects is “not legally sustainable.”Justice Divyesh A. Joshi referred to Section 135(C) of Gujarat Land Revenue Code which states that when a person acquires a right on any land via succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition, purchase, mortgage, gift, lease etc., he shall make a report of acquisition of such right to the designated officer within three months from the date of such acquisition, and the said designated officer shall at once, give a written acknowledgment of the receipt.Gujarat High Court Acquits Cop In 50-Year-Old Custodial Torture Case Citing State's Failure To Prove Illegal Confinement & AssaultCase Title: State of Gujarat v. Shabbirhusein Shekhadam Khandvawala & OrsCase Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 71The Gujarat High Court acquitted a police officer convicted by trial court in 2003 in a custodial torture and illegal confinement FIR lodged in 1976, holding that the prosecution failed to establish that the complainant was tortured wherein the allegations were not supported by reliable medical or corroborative evidence.Justice Gita Gopi observed:“The prosecution had failed to prove the case of police custodial torture of the complainant. The injuries are not proved as of police custody beating. Even the date of custody is not proved. The complainant had failed to invoke his right to make complaint of injuries by police as an accused when [he] was arrested and produced before the Magistrate in [the] case under the Arms Act… The judgment [of the Trial Court], thus, becomes erroneous and fails in merits and is required to be set aside. Since there is no case for conviction, there would be no ground for the plea of enhancement of the sentence.”Fraudulent Mutation Entry Is A 'Nullity'; Limitation Begins From Knowledge Of Fraud: Gujarat High CourtCase Title: Suleiman Ahmed Minty v. State of Gujarat & OrsCase Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 72The Gujarat High Court has held that revenue entries obtained by suppressing material facts and playing fraud cannot confer legal rights, reiterating that any order secured by fraud is a “nullity and non est in the eye of law.”In doing so the court observed that challenge to a 29-year-old mutation entry would not be barred by limitation as limitation was applicable only from the date of knowledge of the fraud, and not from the date of the fraud itself.S.63AA Gujarat Tenancy & Agricultural Lands Act | Collector Can't Deny Industrial Land Use Certificate Over Technical Defects: High CourtCase Title: Advance Greenfield Pvt Ltd Through Its Director Surendrakumar Netaram Sharma v. State of Gujarat & Anr.Case Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 73The Gujarat High Court has held that the Collector cannot reject an application for grant of land use certificate under Section 63AA of State Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act on technical deficiencies.For context, Section 63AA of the Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 enables a person to buy agricultural land provided that it is to be used for bona-fide industrial purposes.Allowing the petition, the Court quashed the Collector's order rejecting the petitioner's application reflected “overstepping of jurisdiction” and lacked application of mind; it also permitted the petitioner to file a fresh application for consideration in accordance with law.S.11(3) Bombay Rents Act | Judicial Fixation Of Standard Rent Inaplicable To New Construction Built Post 2001 Amendment: Gujarat High CourtCase Title: Dharmendra Vallabhbhai Ramani v. Jetpur Swaminarayan Trust & Anr.Case Citation: ...

Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up : March 02 - March 08, 2026

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