Top Law News Court allows NRI accused of arson to go abroad May 4, 2011 / May 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An NRI, accused of committing arson, has been allowed to go to the US by the Gujarat High Court to keep alive his Green Card status. A division bench of Justice Ravi Tripathi and Justice P.P. Bhatt allowed the plea of Mahendra Kumar Patel. Patel moved the high court after the state filed a criminal […] Read more » Gujarat High Court Justice P.P. Bhatt Justice Ravi Tripathi
Top Law News Caste doesn’t work in court, petitioner told April 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Monday refused to entertain a plea of a man who wrote his caste in the title of his petition. Bhapadiya (Brahmin) Navinbhai Mayaram filed the petition before the first bench of the court and sought implementation of a central government welfare scheme in his village Bhapdi in Tharad taluka (sub-district) of […] Read more » Caste Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court doesn't Gujarat High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala Petitioner work
Top Law News Law and order different from public order: High court April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Law and order different from public order: High court A law and order issue does not necessarily attract the provisions of Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) to book someone for disturbing public order, the Gujarat high court has ruled in an order made available Monday. Setting free a woman, who was under detention for alleged bootlegging, the court held that the issues of […] Read more » Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Bombay Prohibition Act Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya different Gujarat High Court High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala Law order PASA Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act public order
Top Law News Retirement sought on health grounds can be withdrawn: Court March 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Voluntary retirement sought on medical grounds could be withdrawn if the doctor gives hope for early recovery, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. Justice J.B. Pardiwala gave the ruling in the case of Mahendra Trivedi, a Bank of India employee. Pardiwala, however, said that the discretion rested with the bank not to permit the withdrawal […] Read more » Court Gujarat High Court health grounds Justice J.B. Pardiwala Retirement Voluntary retirement withdrawn
Top Law News Recover cess for farm exports under one law: Court March 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union government cannot charge or recover cess under two separate laws for export of processed agriculture products, such as wheat flour, the Gujarat High Court has held. The court, while allowing a petition of Gujarat Ambuja Exports Limited, prohibited the government from simultaneously levying and recovering cess under the Agriculture and Processed Food Products […] Read more » Dhaval Shah farm exports Gujarat High Court Justice H.B. Antani Justice Harsha Devani one law Recover cess
Top Law News Merit seat reserved for women can be given to men: Court March 9, 2011 / March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If requisite merit is not available for the seats reserved for women, the seat can be given to male candidates, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. Justice Jayant Patel and Justice J.C. Upadhayaya has ruled that reservation for women is horizontal and not vertical. ‘In respect of seats for women, the merit will be at […] Read more » Court Gujarat High Court Justice J.C. Upadhayaya Justice Jayant Patel men Merit reserved seat women
Top Law News MPs, MLAs salaries should be cancelled for misconduct: Court petitioned March 9, 2011 / March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 69-year-old man knocked the doors of the Gujarat High Court seeking cancellation of salary and other perks given to MPs and MLAs on grounds of their ‘misconduct and behaviour with selfish motives’. The petitioner, Prabhudas Patel, who appeared in person before the court, annexed various newspaper reports with his petition to prove his point. […] Read more » cancelled Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court Gujarat High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala misconduct MLAs MPs petitioned Prabhudas Patel salaries
Top Law News Provident fund, gratuity cannot be attached, rules court February 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An employee’s provident fund and gratuity cannot be attached under any decree in settlement of any debt or liability, the Gujarat High Court has held in an order made available Saturday. The court also said that it cannot restrain the employee, after he receives the provident fund and gratuity amount, from utlising it the way […] Read more » gratuity Gujarat High Court provident fund
Environment Law News Court serves notice to power grid on Kutch creek towers February 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court serves notice to power grid on Kutch creek towers The Gujarat High Court Friday issued notice to the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) and the union and state governments over installing transmission towers in Surajbari creek of Kutch district. The bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi issued the notice following a public interest litigation by Samma Siddiq Usman […] Read more » Gujarat High Court Kutch creek towers power grid
Top Law News Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies February 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies The Gujarat High Court is set to hear the state government’s appeal against its earlier order prohibiting the state from collecting stamp duty from companies on imported goods, a government lawyer said Saturday. A division bench headed by Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya is likely to hear the matter March 10. Government counsel in the case […] Read more » Gujarat High Court
Consumer Law News Gujarat ITI staff entitled to bonus, rules high court January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Employees of Gujarat’s industrial training institutes (ITIs) are entitled to be treated at par with state government employees for the purpose of salary and other monetary benefits like bonus, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. The court, while dismissing the state government’s appeal, ruled that teaching and non-teaching staff working in grants-in-aid institutions were entitled […] Read more » Gujarat Gujarat High Court ITI
Top Law News Gujarat High Court advocates to strike work from Jan 13 January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Advocates Association Tuesday passed a resolution to abstain from work for an indefinite period from Jan 13 to protest the non-appointment of judges. GHAA president Yatin Oza said the resolution condemned the inaction of the central government and other constitutional dignitaries over the issue. The resolution opposes the central government and […] Read more » Gujarat High Court