{"id":33877,"date":"2014-06-25T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33877"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:55:13","slug":"hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition","title":{"rendered":"HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#8217;s reply to petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition\/gujarat-high-court-24\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33707\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition\/gujarat-high-court-24\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?fit=278%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"278,181\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gujarat High Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?fit=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?fit=278%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33707 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?resize=278%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gujarat High Court\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?w=278&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>Gujarat High Court today directed the state Minister for Agriculture, Water Resources and Animal Husbandry Babu Bokhiria to file an affidavit in reply to a petition alleging that he has amassed a huge wealth by illegitimate means.<\/p>\n<p>The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala asked the minister to file affidavit by July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Porbandar-based activist Natwar Karavadra had filed the PIL last year. The HC had earlier issued notices to the minister and the state government, but Bokhiria today sought time to file the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Petition accuses him of being involved in land grabbing and various other illegal activities. It alleges that Bokhiria purchased huge tracts of land in the Porbandar district in his name and in the name of his relatives, and owns 3,000 bighas of land.<\/p>\n<p>It also alleges that he runs an organised crime syndicate through his cousin, and was also involved in illegal mining rackets along the coastal belt.<\/p>\n<p>Bokhiria, currently a minister in Anandi Patel-led government, was also a part of Narendra Modi-led ministry when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Bokhiria was sentenced to three years&#8217; jail term by the magistrate&#8217;s court in Porbandar in an illegal limestone mining case, but the sessions court stayed the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court today directed the state Minister for Agriculture, Water Resources and Animal Husbandry Babu Bokhiria to file an affidavit in reply to a petition alleging that he has amassed a huge wealth by illegitimate means. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala asked the minister to file affidavit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28872,146,382,28874,28873,2487,47776,47765,47774,47775,23371],"class_list":["post-33877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-bhaskar-bhattacharya","tag-court","tag-gujarat","tag-gujarat-high-court-chief-justice-bhaskar-bhattacharya","tag-j-b-pardiwala","tag-justice-j-b-pardiwala","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#039;s reply to petition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#039;s reply to petition\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#039;s reply to petition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#039;s reply to petition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-25T05:55:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5bed6309aad9141bf373167e6730d0fc\"},\"headline\":\"HC seeks Gujarat minister Bokhiria&#8217;s reply to petition\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-25T05:55:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/hc-seeks-gujarat-minister-bokhirias-reply-petition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.in\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bhaskar Bhattacharya\",\"Court\",\"Gujarat\",\"Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya\",\"J B Pardiwala\",\"Justice J.B. 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