{"id":164536,"date":"2010-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/meraji-vs-state-on-13-september-2010"},"modified":"2015-06-24T20:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:29:52","slug":"meraji-vs-state-on-13-september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/meraji-vs-state-on-13-september-2010","title":{"rendered":"Meraji vs State on 13 September, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Meraji vs State on 13 September, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Jayant Patel,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable H.B.Antani,&amp;Nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre>   Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n\n  \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nCR.MA\/10508\/2010\t 1\/ 1\tORDER \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nCRIMINAL\nMISC.APPLICATION No. 10508 of 2010\n \n\nIn\n\n\n \n\nCRIMINAL\nAPPEAL No. 581 of 2007\n \n\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nMERAJI\nCHANDUJI THAKORE - Applicant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nSTATE\nOF GUJARAT &amp; 1 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nTHROUGH\nJAIL for\nApplicant(s) : 1, \nPUBLIC PROSECUTOR for Respondent(s) : 1, \nNone\nfor Respondent(s) :\n2, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE JAYANT PATEL\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nand\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE H.B.ANTANI\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 13\/09\/2010 \n\n \n\n \nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE JAYANT PATEL)<\/p>\n<p>\tRule<br \/>\nreturnable on 20th<br \/>\n September 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tMr.\n<\/p>\n<p>K.P. Rawal, learned Additional Additional Public Prosecutor waives<br \/>\nservice of rule on behalf of the respondent State.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tState<br \/>\nto verify the genuineness of the grounds and antecedents of the<br \/>\napplicant, if any.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[JAYANT<br \/>\nPATEL, J.]<\/p>\n<p>mathew<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[H.B. ANTANI, J.]<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Meraji vs State on 13 September, 2010 Author: Jayant Patel,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable H.B.Antani,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print CR.MA\/10508\/2010 1\/ 1 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD CRIMINAL MISC.APPLICATION No. 10508 of 2010 In CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 581 of 2007 ========================================================= MERAJI CHANDUJI THAKORE &#8211; Applicant(s) Versus STATE OF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meraji vs State on 13 September, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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