A special CBI court today granted bail to a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) of Gujarat in the 2003 Sadiq Jamal encounter killing case.
The Court gave relief to K M Waghela after observing that his involvement in the alleged fake encounter of Jamal, a youth from Bhavnagar, has not been prima facie established.
Ahmedabad: One more dispute between the Bhandari brothers, promoters of Electrotherm India Ltd, has reached court with Mukesh Bhandari demanding cancellation of Shailesh Bhandari’s bail in connection with an FIR accusing the latter of dacoity, illegal detention, assault, unlawful assembly and rioting.
The Gujarat High Court today ordered the police to reopen a case of alleged molestation filed against former state Director General of Police O P Mathur.
Justice Sonia Gokani passed the order.
In 1996, a lady lawyer had filed a complaint against Mathur alleging that Mathur, who was the then Inspector General of Police, Intelligence, visited the complainant’s house where he brandished his service revolver and molested her.
In a significant development, the Gujarat High Court has stayed the police investigation in a case wherein the Ahmedabad City Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) had arrested two persons for attempting to extort money from officials of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL).
The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Google India and several media houses on a petition moved by a businessman seeking removal of news content based on an FIR naming him on the ground that the case against him has been quashed. The petitioner has argued that just like right to reputation, “the right to be forgotten is also a fundamental right.”
The Gujarat High Court on Monday granted relief to BJP minister Purushottam Solanki against non-bailable warrant issued by a special anti-corruption court in connection with the multi-crore fisheries scam. The High Court stayed the warrant till the second week of February, a day before special court was to hear the case in Gandhinagar.
The Gujarat High Court on Monday pulled up tribal land owners and a lawyer for blackmailing and extorting money from builders by utilizing the “powerful potent weapon in their hands in the form of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.”The Court was hearing a bunch of Petitions by the builders, seeking to quash an FIR registered against them on…
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court recently put an end to a criminal case after it came to know that a man and his wife had reached a compromise and started living together. They had earlier fought bitterly, accusing each other of illicit relationships.
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court today granted bail to four accused, including two policemen, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the Dalit flogging incident at Una town of Gir-Somnath district.
A Petition has reportedly been filed in the Gujarat High Court, challenging the appointment Raghuvir Pandya as a Public Prosecutor. Mr. Pandya…
