Surat: A Surat court has sentenced a Talati-Mantri (village revenue officer) to three years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹25,000 after convicting him in a 2008 bribery case involving just ₹1,000. The accused, Himmat Solanki, had demanded a bribe from a land broker in exchange for providing land-related documents in Singanpor village, Surat. After some negotiation, the amount was settled at ₹800, and a meeting was scheduled at Solanki’s office on March 25, 2008. Unwill...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

Surat: A local court has registered a criminal case against four policemen following a suo motu inquiry into their alleged torture of three robbery suspects. The officers are accused of injecting petrol and chilli powder into the detainees’ private parts and physically assaulting them. The 5th Additional Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Shraddha N. Falki, issued the order on March 26 after reviewing statements from the three accused and a doctor, along with medical records and other document...Read More