Surat: A local court in the city has issued warrants against four individuals, including a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), for the alleged beating and extortion of a businessman in police custody at the Vesu Police Station in December 2023. The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate A.A. Vayada ordered the filing of a criminal case under IPC Sections 232 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 384 (extortion) against the accused and issued bailable warrants of Rs 10,000 for each individual...Read More

Surat: The local court on Wednesday granted permission to conduct a voice spectrographic analysis of Maulvi Sohail Abubakar Timol, who is in jail for making death threats to leaders of Hindu organizations and BJP leaders. On May 4, the Surat Police Crime Branch arrested Mohammed Sohel, also known as Maulvi Abubakar Timol, on charges of conspiring to assassinate Hindu Sanatan Sangh president Upadesh Rana and threatening other Hindu leaders such as BJP’s Telangana MLA Raja Singh and former pa...Read More

Surat: The Surat District Bar Association (SDBA) passed a resolution on Tuesday stating that lawyers are "uninterested" in relocating to the proposed new site of the Surat court complex at Jiav Budhiya village, located on the outskirts of the city. The proposed complex location is around 10 km from the present court complex and is in close proximity to the Sachin GIDC area. Chief Justice of Gujarat, Sunita Agrawal, visited Surat on June 22nd and met with registered lawyers from the Surat Dist...Read More

Surat: The Surat District Legal Services Authority organized a seminar in the city to prepare lawyers for the upcoming implementation of new criminal laws, effective from July 1. Approximately 165 lawyers participated in the seminar, led by Principal District Judge R.T. Vachhani, along with lawyers from the Legal Aid Defense Service. These lawyers received essential books for the new laws. Additionally, training sessions were conducted for several police inspectors (PI) and sub-inspectors (PSI)....Read More

Surat: The court has denied anticipatory bail to two people for allegedly threatening to kill a land broker from Surat city if he failed to withdraw the police complaint he had filed against Sajid alias Sajju Kothari. Ashraf Kothari (resident of Hanjar Apartment, Shufiyani Gali, Badekha Chakla) and Mohammed Asghar Bagwala (resident of Khalifa Mohalla, Madhuvan Society, Nanpura) had forcibly entered the house of land-broker, Sohail Ahmed Mansur, and threatened him with dire consequences if he ...Read More

Surat: A Surat court has dismissed the bail petition of police constable Ramiz Solanki, who allegedly printed fake receipts and used them to collect fines to the tune of Rs 5.15 lakh during the corona lockdowns. Solanki, who is a resident of the Rampura police line, was the wireless operator in the government car of Kapodra police station. He, along with the car driver Pratap Lakhubhai Chavda, got printed fake receipts of the kind that the government issues at the time of collecting compromis...Read More