Gujarat High Court Quashes Non-Bailable Warrant Issued Against BJP MLA Hardik Patel In 2018 FIR Related To Patidar Quota Agitation

The Gujarat High Court on Monday (September 29) quashed a non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued against BJP MLA Hardik Patel after he gave an undertaking that he shall appear before the magistrate for attending the proceedings in a case related to a 2018 FIR registered against him. Patel had sought quashing of an order by the Additional Judicial Magistrate First Class, Ahmedabad (Rural) in Criminal Case No. 11926 of 2022, which rejected his application for exemption from appearance and a...

Gujarat High Court Vacates Stay On Auction Of Shops Constructed In Residential Area In Rajkot Citing Grant Of Development Permission

The Gujarat High Court recently vacated its earlier order staying a proposed auction for sale of commercial shops constructed in residential premises known as Rangoli Park Apartments in Rajkot. For context, the court had on August 26 directed the Gujarat Housing Board not to auction the commercial shops scheduled on August 28. Vacating the stay the court noted that the development...

Sub-Inspector Exam: Gujarat High Court Rejects Pleas By Unsuccessful Aspirants Challenging Mandate Of Scoring 40% Marks In Each Subject

The Gujarat High Court rejected a plea moved by certain candidates challenging the result of Sub-Inspector exam wherein the selection board required candidates to secure 40% marks in each of the four subjects. The court held that the purpose of selection would stand defeated if instead of ascertaining knowledge of candidate in each subject their overall assessment is considered. The...

Gujarat High Court Hosts 2-Day Conference On Arbitration Law

The Gujarat High Court in collaboration with the Gujarat State Judicial Academy hosted a Two-Day Conference on Arbitration Law on September 20-21 bringing together eminent Judges and senior advocates from across the country, aiming to deepen engagement with arbitration jurisprudence, highlighting contemporary challenges and a way forward for the future. A press note states that the...

Gujarat High Court Mandates 45-Year Minimum Age, 20 Yrs Practice For Senior Advocate Designation; Can't Appear For Mentioning

The Gujarat High Court has mandated that advocates applying for senior advocate designation must be of minimum 45-year age to claim eligibility, in its newly notified High Court of Gujarat (Designation of Senior Advocate) Rules, 2025.The Rules which were published and notified on September 17 states:"3. Eligibility condition for designation of Senior Advocate :(a) An advocate shall be eligible...

'Disgraceful': Gujarat High Court Slams Lawyer For Creating False Demolition Panic, Moving Midnight Appeal

The Gujarat High Court deprecated the conduct of an advocate who claimed that due to non-grant of injunction order by trial court, the authorities would demolish his clients' flats overnight, noting that he misused the high court's machinery by moving an appeal late at night without even ascertaining the correct facts. Calling his conduct "deplorable" and "disgraceful" the court said that...

Magistrate Can't Keep Adult Woman In Shelter Home Against Her Will, Violative Of Her Fundamental Rights: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has said that while a magistrate has the power to pass an order to protect the safety of a woman–who had lodged a rape complaint, and send her to a shelter home after she refused to go to her own home, however she cannot be kept there indefinitely against her will. It also said that once a woman who is a major makes a request to leave the shelter home, the magistrate...

Gujarat High Court Upholds Jurisdiction Of State Tribunal For Public Works Contract Disputes Involving Municipal Corporation

The Gujarat High Court dismissed a batch of petitions filed by private contractors involved in public works contract disputes with municipal corporations, in view of a state government notification providing for routing such disputes to be adjudicated by tribunal under the Gujarat Public Works Contracts Disputes Arbitration Tribunal Act 1992. For context the 1992 Act provides for the...

'Absolutely Irresponsible': Gujarat High Court Declines To Quash FIR Against Lawyer For Disclosing POCSO Victim's Name To Media

The Gujarat High Court refused to quash the FIR against a woman advocate booked for disclosing the name of a POCSO victim by giving a media bite, stating that she behaved "absolutely irresponsibly as a professional as well as a human". Justice Nirzar Desai in his order further observed that what was more glaring is that the applicant could not protect the "dignity, reputation, and privacy of...

Gujarat High Court Adjourns Asaram Bapu's Regular Bail Plea In 2013 Rape Case To September 26

The Gujarat High Court on Monday (September 22) adjourned to Friday (September 26) the regular bail plea of Asaram Bapu who was convicted in a 2013 rape case by a sessions court in Gandhinagar and is serving a life sentence.A division bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and Justice PM Raval was informed by Asaram Bapu's counsel that he will be filing a regular bail plea before the Rajasthan High...

Gujarat High Court Suggests Ahmedabad School To Consider 10% Admissions On 'Minimal Basis' In Memory Of Child Stabbed By Fellow Student

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (September 17) orally suggested to a private school in a Ahmedabad whose student was reportedly stabbed by another student last month, to consider giving admission to 10% students on a 'minimal basis' in the memory of the deceased student. Justice Nikhil Kariel was hearing two pleas moved by the school— one challenged the show cause notice asking why...

Yatin Oza Objects To New 'Undertaking' Rule For Gujarat High Court Senior Designation In Letter To GHCAA

Senior advocate and former GHCAA president, Yatin Oza, has written to Brijesh Trivedi, President of the Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA), raising his strong objections to a new Rule in the recently published High Court of Gujarat (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2025. Oza has taken exception to Rule 5 ('Undertaking') of the 2025 rules, which requires a...