{"id":225135,"date":"2010-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somabhai-vs-director-on-4-march-2010-3"},"modified":"2017-12-20T00:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:12:16","slug":"somabhai-vs-director-on-4-march-2010-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somabhai-vs-director-on-4-march-2010-3","title":{"rendered":"Somabhai vs Director on 4 March, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Somabhai vs Director on 4 March, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Ks Jhaveri,&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\nSCA\/8196\/1991\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\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No. 8196 of 1991\n \n\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nSOMABHAI\nC BHANGI - Petitioner(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nDIRECTOR\n&amp; 2 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nNOTICE\nSERVED for\nPetitioner(s) : 1, \nMS KRINA CALLA, ASST GOVERNMENT PLEADER for\nRespondent(s) : 1 -\n3. \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 KS JHAVERI\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 04\/03\/2010 \n\n \n\n \n \nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>\tThough<br \/>\nserved none appears for the petitioner.  This matter is of the year<br \/>\n1991 and pertains to promotion to post of Dresser. No fruitful<br \/>\npurpose will be served by granting adjournments when the petitioner<br \/>\ndoes not seem interested in proceeding with the matter, more<br \/>\nparticularly after a period of about 19 years.  This petition<br \/>\ntherefore stands dismissed for want of prosecution.  Rule is<br \/>\ndischarged.  Interim relief stands vacated.\n<\/p>\n<p>(K.S.\n<\/p>\n<p>JHAVERI, J.)<\/p>\n<p>Divya\/\/<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Somabhai vs Director on 4 March, 2010 Author: Ks Jhaveri,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print SCA\/8196\/1991 1\/ 1 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 8196 of 1991 ========================================================= SOMABHAI C BHANGI &#8211; Petitioner(s) Versus DIRECTOR &amp; 2 &#8211; Respondent(s) ========================================================= Appearance : NOTICE [&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-225135","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somabhai vs Director on 4 March, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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