{"id":4191,"date":"2008-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somabhai-vs-mahagujarat-on-8-october-2008"},"modified":"2019-01-15T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:40:26","slug":"somabhai-vs-mahagujarat-on-8-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/somabhai-vs-mahagujarat-on-8-october-2008","title":{"rendered":"Somabhai vs Mahagujarat on 8 October, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Somabhai vs Mahagujarat on 8 October, 2008<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: R.M.Doshit,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Mr.Justice K.M.Thaker,&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\nCA\/9552\/2008\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\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No. 9552 of 2008\n \n\nIn\nLETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 819 of 2006\n \n\nIn\nSPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 3448 of 1996\n \n\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nSOMABHAI\nMAFABHAI RAVAT &amp; 39 - Petitioner(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nMAHAGUJARAT\nMILL MAZDOOR UNION &amp; 9 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nSP MAJMUDAR for\nPetitioner(s) : 1   40.                                    MR PP\nMAJMUDAR for Petitioner(s) : 1 - 40. \nMR GIRISH PATEL for\nRespondent(s) : 1 - 6. \nNANAVATI &amp; NANAVATI for Respondent(s) :\n7, \nGOVERNMENT PLEADER for Respondent(s) : 8 - 9. \nNone for\nRespondent(s) :\n10, \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\tMS. JUSTICE R.M.DOSHIT\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 K.M.THAKER\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 08\/10\/2008 \n\n \n\n \nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE R.M.DOSHIT)<\/p>\n<p>\tRULE,<br \/>\nto be heard with the main matter.\n<\/p>\n<p>(K.M.Thaker,<br \/>\nJ.)\t\t\t\t  (Ms.R.M.Doshit, J.)<\/p>\n<p>\/moin<\/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 Mahagujarat on 8 October, 2008 Author: R.M.Doshit,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Mr.Justice K.M.Thaker,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print CA\/9552\/2008 1\/ 1 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD CIVIL APPLICATION No. 9552 of 2008 In LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 819 of 2006 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 3448 of 1996 [&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-4191","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 Mahagujarat on 8 October, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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