{"id":35065,"date":"2014-09-03T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:35:39","slug":"pil-gujarat-high-court-seeks-fast-track-courts-try-rape-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-gujarat-high-court-seeks-fast-track-courts-try-rape-cases","title":{"rendered":"PIL in Gujarat High Court seeks fast-track courts to try rape cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 16px\/28px 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35066\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-gujarat-high-court-seeks-fast-track-courts-try-rape-cases\/rape-cases\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?fit=480%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"480,320\" 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=\"rape cases\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?fit=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-35066\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rape-cases-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"rape cases\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/rape-cases.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government in response to a public interest litigation seeking fast-track courts for rape cases.\u00a0The division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and JB Pardiwala asked the government to file its reply by September 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 16px\/28px 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Petitioner Jignesh Goswami says, quoting a media report, that Gujarat government has not followed Delhi High Court&#8217;s direction to set up fast track courts for speedy trial of rape cases. The direction applies to all the states, he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 16px\/28px 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The Delhi High Court&#8217;s order came with respect to the case of gang-rape on moving bus in December 2012.\u00a0The petitioner claims that all the states, except Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat, have formed such courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government in response to a public interest litigation seeking fast-track courts for rape cases.\u00a0The division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and JB Pardiwala asked the government to file its reply by September 30. 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