{"id":212788,"date":"2010-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kundanben-vs-state-on-13-january-2010"},"modified":"2016-01-02T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T02:55:36","slug":"kundanben-vs-state-on-13-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kundanben-vs-state-on-13-january-2010","title":{"rendered":"Kundanben vs State on 13 January, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kundanben vs State on 13 January, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Bhagwati Prasad,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Bankim.N.Mehta,&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\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nLPA\/1375\/1997\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\nLETTERS\nPATENT APPEAL No. 1375 of 1997\n \n\nIn\n\n\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 1248 of 1983\n \n\nWith\n\n\n \n\nLETTERS\nPATENT APPEAL No. 1377 of 1997\n \n\nIn\nSPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 3404 of 1983\n \n\nWith\n\n\n \n\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No. 13305 of 2007\n \n\nIn\nLETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 1377 of 1997\n \n\n=========================================================\n\n \n\nKUNDANBEN\nJ JOSHI (DAUGHTER) RAJKOT &amp; 3 - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nSTATE\nOF GUJARAT &amp; 6 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nGM JOSHI for\nAppellant(s) : 1, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4,1.2.5 - 2, 2.2.1,\n2.2.2,2.2.3 - 3, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5,3.2.6 - 4.MR MA\nKHARADI for Appellant(s) : 1 - 3, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4,\n3.2.5,3.2.6 - 4. \nGOVERNMENT PLEADER for Respondent(s) : 1 -\n3. \nRULE SERVED for Respondent(s) : 4, \nMR HS MUNSHAW for\nRespondent(s) : 5, \nMS KHYATI P HATHI for Respondent(s) : 6 - 7. \nMR\nPJ KANABAR for Respondent(s) :\n7, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \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 BHAGWATI PRASAD\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 BANKIM.N.MEHTA\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 13\/01\/2010 \n\n \n\nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD)<\/p>\n<p>\tLet<br \/>\nthe matters receive consideration where one of us (Bankim N. Mehta,<br \/>\nJ) is not a Member.\n<\/p>\n<p>(BHAGWATI<br \/>\nPRASAD, J.)  \t\t (BANKIM N.MEHTA, J.) <\/p>\n<p>shekhar\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Kundanben vs State on 13 January, 2010 Author: Bhagwati Prasad,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Bankim.N.Mehta,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print LPA\/1375\/1997 1\/ 1 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 1375 of 1997 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 1248 of 1983 With LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 1377 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-212788","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kundanben vs State on 13 January, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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