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Justice S.V. Pinto dismissed the State appeal against the acquittal of two men accused of forcing a young woman to drink poison in a maize field in April 2014, finding material omissions in her complaint, no eyewitness to the act, a hospital history naming unknown persons, and an aluminium bottle that the police seized but never had analysed.
A division bench of Justice A.S. Supehia and Justice Vaibhavi D. Nanavati agreed the refund claim was late on the ordinary statutory clock, but refused to let a summary uploaded two years after the appellate order revive a demand that had already been set aside.
Justice S.V. Pinto held that the Juvenile Justice Board and the Children Court treated the drugs as recovered from the boy when the FIR and chargesheet said nothing was found on him, and that none of the three bars to bail under Section 12 of the JJ Act was made out.
A division bench of Justice A.S. Supehia and Justice Vaibhavi D. Nanavati held that the Finance Act 2023 proviso to Section 151 is prospective, so a Principal Commissioner had no power on 1 April 2022 to approve a Section 148 notice for assessment year 2018-19.
Justices Ilesh J. Vora and R. T. Vachhani dismissed a survivor appeal against acquittal, holding that two written deeds affirming free consent, the testimony of her own father and uncle, and the failure to seize the original agreements left the false promise of marriage case unproved.
Justice P.M. Raval held that the same facts had been taken to three police stations, that an FSL report excluded the forgery allegation, and that one FIR was a manifest counter-blast under Category 7 of Bhajan Lal.
Justices Gita Gopi and L.S. Pirzada dismissed a 97-page appeal against conviction, holding that motive need not be separately proved where the accused's own conduct supplies it.
Justices A.S. Supehia and Vaibhavi D. Nanavati quashed the order in original, holding the exercise would have been revenue-neutral and that Section 74 cannot be a routine formula for bypassing normal limitation.
Justice Maulik J. Shelat rejected a civil revision but suspended his own judgment for four weeks so the tenant could approach the Supreme Court.
Eight hundred and eighty-two gold bars were seized from a Paldi flat. Justice Sanjeev J. Thaker holds Section 35(3) of the BNSS would add a condition to Section 104 of the Customs Act rather than supplement it — and still grants pre-arrest bail.
A victim's appeal under Section 413 BNSS against a Juvenile Justice Board's acquittal, and a reminder from the Gujarat High Court that a possible view cannot be overturned merely because another was available.
A revenue authority cannot reopen nineteen-year-old entries on a ground an appellate authority had already rejected, the Court holds, quashing the Collector's cancellation.
Justice Sanjeev J. Thaker of the Gujarat High Court declined anticipatory bail to a 70-year-old man accused of molestation and obscene demands, citing a recorded apology for an earlier incident and a second alleged offence on 31 July 2026.
Justice J.C. Doshi dismissed a first appeal challenging a Waqf Board resolution that corrected the registered name of a disputed Patan dargah and set aside the Faruqui family's appointment as mutawallis.
Gujarat High Court quashes an FIR registered under the AMASR Act, ruling that safety repairs mandated by a municipal notice cannot constitute criminal "construction" near a protected monument.
Gujarat High Court dismisses a second appeal, holding that a Scheduled Tribe widow who inherited her husband's land became its absolute owner and could validly execute a Will in favour of her nephew.
The Gujarat High Court refused to revive a Section 500 IPC complaint after finding the original application said to be defamatory was never produced before any court, and Exception 8 independently shielded the respondent.
The Gujarat High Court held that an Order VII Rule 11 application filed after evidence concluded and at the final arguments stage cannot be entertained, dismissing the civil revision with costs.
The Division Bench found the petitioner's pollution allegations against a paper manufacturer false and misleading after GPCB inspection reports showed ambient air, noise, and water standards were being met.
Justice A.Y. Kogje set aside proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act against two married sisters-in-law, finding only vague, general allegations and no shared residence with the complainant.
A Gujarat HC Division Bench quashed a GST registration cancellation order after the tax officer admitted to citing non-existent, AI-generated case laws, triggering state-wide instructions on AI use in adjudication.
Justice Nikhil S. Kariel found no prima facie causal link between the applicant's alleged threat to the deceased's husband and her suicide, granting regular bail after ten months in custody.
A Scientific Officer appointed in 2012 alleges his promotion proposal was sent first, yet junior colleagues received promotion orders earlier, pushing him below them in seniority.
