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India: SC to pass order on Wednesday on Sanjiv Bhatt's plea seeking recusal of Justice MR Shah

New Delhi, May 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea by sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking the recusal of Justice MR Shah from hearing his petition to submit additional evidence to support his appeal in the Gujarat High Court against conviction in a 1990 custodial death case.

India: All the earth’s problems would be solved if cows are not slaughtered, says the Judge while sentencing 22 year old

Tapi; 5 May 2023 (UMMN): 22-year-old Mohammed Ameen Arif Anjum, a resident of Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, was sentenced to life in prison by a sessions court at Vyara in Tapi district in Gujarat for “illegally transporting cows”

India: Gujarat HC to hear Rahul Gandhi's plea in defamation case

Ahmedabad, Apr 29 (PTI) The Gujarat High Court will hear on Saturday Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's appeal challenging the order of the Surat sessions court declining a stay to his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark.

Gandhi's appeal will be heard by Justice Hemant Prachchhak on April 29, the cause list published by the high court said.

India: Rahul says was treated harshly by trial court, sentenced to attract disqualification as MP

Surat, Apr 3 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday told a sessions court in Surat his conviction by a magistrate's court in a 2019 defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark was erroneous, patently perverse, and he was sentenced in a manner so as to attract disqualification as a Member of Parliament.

India: Guj court acquits all 26 accused in 2002 gangrape and multiple murders case during Godhra communal riots

Godhra, Apr 1 (PTI) A court in Gujarat has acquitted all 26 persons accused of gangrape and murder of more than a dozen members of a minority community in separate incidents in Kalol during 2002 communal riots for want of evidence in the 20-year-old case.

Of the total 39 accused, 13 died during the pendency of the case and the trial against them was abated.

India: Public flogging by state police in Gujrat: TMC files complaint with NHRC

New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) The TMC has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission in connection with the public flogging of Muslim men by Gujarat Police personnel, party spokesperson Saket Gokhale said on Friday.

He said it is "a matter of shame" that the NHRC hasn't taken suo moto cognizance of the matter.

India: AAP party office in Gujarat raided

Ahmedabad, Sep 12 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party leader Isudan Gadhvi has claimed local police raided the party office in Navrangpura area of Ahmedabad as soon as AAP's national convener Arvind Kejriwal landed here, but found nothing.

However, a police official refuted the claim and said when contacted, the AAP office-bearers did not give any details about who conducted the raid and what exactly happened.

India: Hardik Patel quits Congress, writes scathing letter to Sonia Gandhi

Ahmedabad, May 18 (PTI) Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel on Wednesday resigned as the Gujarat Congress working president and from the party's primary membership.

Before quitting, Patel (28), who had joined the Congress in 2019, wrote a scathing letter to party chief Sonia Gandhi, claiming the Congress "only played to the role of a roadblock" over certain key issues in the country and was "merely reduced to opposing everything".

India: Gujarat BJP MLA gets two-year RI in gambling case

Halol (Guj), May 11 (PTI) A court at Halol in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Wednesday sentenced BJP MLA Kesarisinh Solanki and 25 others to rigorous imprisonment (RI) for two years in a gambling case, less than a year after their arrest from a resort in a police raid.

The court of additional chief judicial magistrate, Prem Hansraj Singh, also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the MLA, who represents the Matar Assembly constituency in the Kheda district, and 25 other accused.

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