3 min readSuratJun 28, 2026 05:46 AM IST NEARLY A month after over 100 families of Nasirnagar in Ved Darwaja area of Surat were rendered homeless after a controversial demolition on “private land” they had allegedly encroached for nearly four decades, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Saturday shifted around 150 persons to a community…
Residents of Nasir Nagar at the site of their demolished homes Surat: A day after 26 residents whose homes were demolished in Nasir Nagar approached the Gujarat high court, the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) arranged temporary accommodation for them at a community hall in Bharimata. However, the affected families refused to move, choosing instead to…
The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to decide within six months the remission plea of a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Shahnawaz Bhatti, who is serving a life term after being arrested with 22 kg of RDX in 2001. Justice Mengdey passed the direction on June 17 after being informed that the opinion of the…
NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court has ruled that brothers of a person killed in a road accident can claim compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act even if they were not financially dependent on the deceased.Justice Mool Chand Tyagi held that being a legal representative is sufficient to maintain a claim, and financial dependency is…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has quashed charges under the IT Act against two brothers accused of leaking a question paper after one of them took pictures of the paper inside the exam hall and sent them to the other. The latter was sitting outside the hall. The events occurred during the 2018 GPSC exam.Police invoked…
File photo of the Nasir Nagar demolition site Surat: Twenty-six residents affected by the demolition in Nasir Nagar have filed a special civil application in Gujarat High Court challenging the razing of more than 100 houses by the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).The petitioners alleged that the demolition was carried out without following due process. They…
Haren Pandya, a former state home minister, was shot dead on March 26, 2006 Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has ordered the state govt to take a decision within six months on an application filed by the sharpshooter in the Haren Pandya murder case, Mohammed Asghar Ali. Convicted to a life term, Ali moved the HC…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has ordered state govt to take a decision within six months on a remission application filed by the sharpshooter from Hyderabad in the Haren Pandya murder case Mohammed Asghar Ali.Life-term convict Asghar Ali moved HC and submitted that state govt was not taking any decision on his application. His counsel contended…
Vadodara: The sessions court in Rajpipla of Narmada district on Tuesday sentenced AAP Dediapada MLA Chaitar Vasava, his wife and seven others, to seven years imprisonment after convicting them in 2023 case of assault, intimidation and extortion of forest officials.Additional sessions judge A V Hirpara also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on each of…
Gujarat High Court at Sola in Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has quashed an FIR under IPC and a complaint under the Domestic Violence Act filed against an elderly couple as counterblasts after their NRI son divorced his wife.Quashing both the cases filed against the couple by their daughter-in-law, the HC said, “The petitioners…
