Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has once again deferred the deadline for the mandatory use of A4-sized paper across all district courts. As per a fresh circular, the requirement to adopt standardised A4 paper for legal documentation will now take effect from August 1, 2026. The notification replaces earlier circulars issued in late 2025 and makes it clear that no further extensions will be granted beyond this revised timeline. Anil Kella, a senior member of the Bar Council of Gujarat, welcom...Read More

Ahmedabad: A rural court on Tuesday sentenced Nirav Jebaliya, son of former IPS officer B. S. Jebaliya, to three years’ imprisonment after convicting him in a 2023 cheating case involving a forged High Court stay order. Chief Judicial Magistrate J. A. Baxi found Nirav guilty of cheating, while acquitting him of charges of forgery and criminal intimidation. The case was registered at Sola police station in August 2023, following a reprimand from the Gujarat High Court over the police’s fail...Read More

Ahmedabad: To ease the mounting burden of cheque bounce cases, the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) courts in Ahmedabad on Friday launched an online payment facility for matters under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. The first transaction was completed the same day and the case was disposed of, marking the rollout of the system in Gujarat. The move follows the Supreme Court’s direction in Sanjabij Tari vs Kishore S. Borcar, which asked district courts to allow accused persons to ...Read More

Ahmedabad: A major security scare gripped Gujarat today after anonymous bomb threats were sent to several judicial institutions, including the Gujarat High Court and lower courts in multiple cities across the state. Courts in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Bharuch and Anand reportedly received threats warning that they would be blown up using powerful explosives like RDX, triggering panic and a massive security response. In Ahmedabad, the City Civil and Sessions Court received the thre...Read More

Bhuj: A special court in Bhuj on Friday sentenced a suspended police constable to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe and trying to destroy the currency notes by chewing them. The court convicted Mayursinh Sodha, who was posted at Vayor police station in West Kutch, for demanding and taking a ₹4,000 bribe from a farmer in 2020 to avoid registering a case under the Prohibition Act. However, the farmer approached the ACB, which set up a trap. They provided the complainan...Read More

Gandhinagar: With an aim to make the judicial system smoother, more efficient, and technology-driven, the Gujarat Government will provide tablets and printers worth up to ₹1 lakh to 1,200 District Judiciary Judges across the state, an official statement said today. As per the government decision, approximately 1,200 judges will each receive a tablet worth ₹80,000 and a printer worth ₹20,000. For this initiative, a budgetary provision of ₹15 crore has been approved for the financial year...Read More

Surat: An incident involving a demand for free firki (spool of kite thread) ahead of Uttarayan has landed three police personnel from Sarthana Police Station and a civilian in legal trouble. Following a petition, a local court has ordered the registration of a criminal case against the four individuals for allegedly assaulting a shopkeeper who refused to provide kite strings for free. According to the complaint, on the night of January 13, 2025, Ravi Bhupat Kasotiya visited a kite and manja sho...Read More

Ahmedabad: A Sessions Court in the city has denied bail to Mohammad Murtuza Ali Mohammad Khalil, accused of illegally streaming banned Pakistani news and entertainment channels in India via BOSIPTV and IPTV. Investigations revealed that the accused created an unauthorized website, bostv.org, offering access to 85,000 channels—including Indian and Pakistani news and entertainment channels—as well as over 29,000 HD movies and more than 3,000 web series. He charged a subscription fee of Rs 150...Read More

Surat: With a marital dispute already ongoing, a man from Indore has now approached a court in Surat to stop his minor son from being initiated as a Jain monk, claiming the decision was made without his consent. Bhavin Chandrakant Shah, a resident of Indore, filed a petition in the Principal Senior Civil Judge's Court in Surat under the provisions of the Guardian and Wards Act. He named his estranged wife, Binal Shah, a resident of Dumas in Surat, as the respondent. The couple's son has been li...Read More